ERJ November/December 2024 issue

Click the issue link to read the November/December 2024 edition of European Rubber Journal magazine.

CONTENTS

4 Comment: Rising above

5 Comprehensive report on all the latest news about the rubber industry from around the world

ANNUAL SUPPLEMENT

Global Tire Report 2024

15 Signs of change

Largest tire makers retain position in global Top 75 rankings amid growing challenge from Chinese manufacturers

20 Global ranking of tire producers (based on 2023 tire sales, including subsidiaries)

22 New direction-of-travel

Investment in new capacity and plant upgrades reaches new levels, but low-cost imports continue to drive structural change

30 GTR Listings Section

Comprehensive worldwide listing of tire manufacturing plants by country

FEATURES

42 Automotive sealing demands drive rubber innovation

Latest developments reflect increasing requirements around light-weighting, recyclability, safety and performance

45 Elastomers for Sustainability

Latest staging of the E4S programme, ranking the potential of material science-based projects to improve the environmental performance of the rubber producers, processors and end-users

48 Driving sustainability

Motor technology can drive sustainability in tire manufacture, writes Fausto Belotti of ABB Motion

49 Tire industry making massive contribution to EU economy

Supported almost 500k jobs across the EU last year, Oxford Economics study shows

REGULARS

50 Industry data page

51 Postscript – On the record