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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

German rubber & plastics machinery makers on recovery track

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…

Freudenberg targets fuel cell, battery technology with acquisitions

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…

ContiTech official notes changes in hose industry 

US company Regent acquiring ContiTech OESL unit

Added: 28 Aug 2025

Original Equipment Solutions produces hose lines and bearing elements for automotive industry

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

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

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 

Guizhou Tyre expanding engineering tire capacity

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 chief warns against recent market developments

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…’

NR production, consumption up in first two months of 2018

Rubber futures ease on “persistent overcapacity”, weak tire demand

Added: 26 Aug 2025

Trading volume falls across major Southeast Asian exchanges amid uncertainty