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NR production drops in January, February

Rubber futures gain amid boosted market sentiment

Added: 3 Dec 2024

Supply concerns support price hikes as rainy season starts in major rubber producing countries

Feature  – JK Tyre maps out road to automation

Hankook taps AI mixing technology to enhance UHP tire

Added: 3 Dec 2024

Innovative rubber compound delivers “exceptional” balance to fourth generation Ventus evo

Nexen Tire announces executive reshuffle as it targets growth

Added: 3 Dec 2024

“Next-generation leaders” appointed as CEO and to key roles in sales, production, and R&D

Conti boosts recycled bottle use in tires, targets 100% sustainable PET by 2030

Added: 3 Dec 2024

Polyester fabric made from recycled PET bottles introduced in further tire plants in Germany and Fr…

Denka raises neoprene prices again

Denka extends deadline for chloroprene rubber review

Added: 3 Dec 2024

Japanese group to announce its ‘comprehensive measures’ for the business by end of March 2025

Sentury Tire taps Colour Service/Pelmar at Chinese plant

Sentury starts production at Morocco tire plant

Added: 1 Dec 2024

Manufacturing unit in Tangier is set for commercial-scale output next year

Trump to impose stiff steel, aluminium tariffs

Sumitomo Rubber mulls US plans following tire plant closure

Added: 1 Dec 2024

Japanese group expects to build manufacturing facility ‘in the vicinity of North America’ in future…

EU chemicals body secures protection for REACH data

Researchers develop process to remove 6PPD from waste tires

Added: 1 Dec 2024

University of Delaware researchers use 'chemical extraction' technique to 'decontaminate' ELTs

Toyoda Gosei rolls out ambitious plan to drive up profitability

Added: 1 Dec 2024

Aims to address changing automotive needs, including around efficiency, safety and comfort of elect…

Expanding Reoil taps Harke to supply tire-pyrolysis products

Added: 1 Dec 2024

Tire pyrolysis company selects German supplier to distribute rCb, TPO in Europe and UK...

ERJ Tire Tracker: November/December

Added: 1 Dec 2024

Bridgestone / Kawasaki Motors... Hankook Ventus evo... Fake always breaks... Nexen's 'advanced' sum…

Toyo consolidating European operations in Serbia

Added: 29 Nov 2024

Subsidiaries, including sales units in Germany, Benelux, Italy and UK to cease operation by January…

Rubber & tire industry in numbers

Added: 29 Nov 2024

Review of the key figures and data to emerge this week from leading players in the global industries

Hartalega adding rubber gloves capacity as Covid drives demand

Hartalega ramping up rubber glove production amid signs of demand recovery

Added: 29 Nov 2024

Profits impacted by higher cost of raw materials and appreciation of Malaysian Ringgit

Russian billionaire acquires Cordiant from S8 Capital

Added: 29 Nov 2024

Portfolio includes former Continental and Bridgestone tire factories

ERJ Appointments Tracker: Sept - Nov

Added: 29 Nov 2024

Cefic president... Cimcorp CEO... IISRP appointment... Wevo & Zelu team... HB Fuller... Greene Twee…

Albis unveils polyamide adhesion modified TPV grades

Indian project to study enhancement of rubber processing oils

Added: 29 Nov 2024

Rubber Research Institute of India to examine and optimise oils produced by local energy company IOC

Outlook bright for carbon black?

CSRC adjusting carbon black capacity in China amid oversupply

Added: 28 Nov 2024

Company starts production in India, progresses joint venture factory in Turkey

WDK leader sets out way forward for Germany’s rubber industry

Nokian Tyres inks long-term renewable power supply deal for Romanian plant

Added: 28 Nov 2024

Austrian clean energy supplier Enery to provide zero-CO2 electricity to Oradea factory for 11 years

US compounder Prism raises $40m to advance ELT-based elastomers

Added: 28 Nov 2024

Company to accelerate commercialisation of technology to produce high recycled-content TPEs from wa…