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Rubber & tire industry in numbers
Added: 29 Aug 2025
Review of the key figures and data to emerge over the last seven days from leading players worldwide

Saudi Arabia launches tire project with Chinese partner
Added: 29 Aug 2025
Sandstone tire project in Yanbu to produce 5 million units of tires per annum

PFAS update puts sealing products “under the spotlight”
Added: 29 Aug 2025
ESA: Door is open for solutions that support continued use in critical sealing applications

VDMA calls for economic reforms in response to US tariffs
Added: 29 Aug 2025
Germany’s mechanical engineering industry facing “serious additional burdens” on its international …

ERJ Business Briefing
Added: 29 Aug 2025
Kuraray elastomers "firm"... TG to acquire Ashimori... Kraton pine chemicals... Celanese credit dea…

Essentially Rubber – Innovation
Added: 29 Aug 2025
Pay-by-Rolex with Rubber B... Kraiburg TPE light-up... FST addresses food-contact reg... TPE for CC…

US company Regent acquiring ContiTech OESL unit
Added: 28 Aug 2025
Original Equipment Solutions produces hose lines and bearing elements for automotive industry
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Ceat commits to invest $170m in Sri Lanka tire operations
Added: 28 Aug 2025
Agreement with board of investment described as one of the “largest recent investments” from India
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Longmarch unveils plans to set up tire plant in Egypt
Added: 28 Aug 2025
Project to be completed in two phases with an overall investment of $190m

Nexen introduces driving simulator to accelerate tire development
Added: 28 Aug 2025
Plans to establish “full virtual development process” integrating finite element analysis and AI
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ECHA announces timeline for PFAS restriction evaluation
Added: 28 Aug 2025
European Chemicals Agency aims to complete evaluation of proposed EU-wide restriction by end of 2026

Toyoda Gosei to acquire automotive saftey company Ashimori Industry through tender offer
Added: 28 Aug 2025
Japanese group aims to provide "a total range of safety systems" through acquisition

Bridgestone announces job cuts at US off-road tire plant
Added: 27 Aug 2025
Japanese tire maker reducing production of "unprofitable tires” to align with demand
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Guizhou Tire eyes Morocco for second overseas plant
Added: 27 Aug 2025
Still at “planning stage,” Morocco factory intended to improve global layout and ‘production resili…

Tire recycler Contec reports fire at Polish facility
Added: 27 Aug 2025
No injuries reported but "damages are significant, and production will not be restarted in the near…

German rubber industry warns against CBAM extension to elastomers
Added: 27 Aug 2025
Inclusion will involve paying carbon price on 'embedded emissions' from imported rubber products

SKF exits ‘non-core’ aerospace segment with €60m divestment deal
Added: 27 Aug 2025
Group sells operations to Carco RPR Group, following an earlier €185m deal in April

Enviro progresses major tire recycling plant with first reactor delivery
Added: 27 Aug 2025
First of five pyrolysis reactors delivered to tire recycling plant in Uddevalla

Kuraray: Isoprene unit grows sales, narrows losses
Added: 27 Aug 2025
‘Chemicals and elastomer volumes up, demand firm, especially in Europe and the US…’
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Rubber futures ease on “persistent overcapacity”, weak tire demand
Added: 26 Aug 2025
Trading volume falls across major Southeast Asian exchanges amid uncertainty