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Denka completes €30m upgrade at chloroprene rubber plant

Fatal incident at Denka chloroprene rubber plant

Added: 16 Jun 2023

One person killed and two others injured by pipe-burst at Japanese manufacturing site

Audi taps pyrolysis for recycling of scrap tires in Hungary

Added: 16 Jun 2023

Vehicle manufacturing plant in partnership deal with local ELT processing company New Energy

Zeon increasing prices for synthetic rubber materials

Added: 16 Jun 2023

Japanese group links measures to rising costs for facility maintenance, secondary raw materials, ut…

Cefic names Sylvie Lemoine as deputy director general

Added: 16 Jun 2023

Lemoine made significant contributions to shaping strategic initiatives

Airbus approves Goodyear tires on new A321XLR

Added: 16 Jun 2023

Goodyear’s ‘Flight Radial’ tire to be fitted on aircraft as it enters service in 2024

Conti claims production "first" for sustainable-content tires

Added: 15 Jun 2023

UltraContact NXT is made of up to 65% renewable, recycled and ISCC Plus certified materials

Standard Profil buoyed by automotive market, cost trends

Added: 15 Jun 2023

'Headwinds easing amid diminishing supply-chain issues and falling material prices...'

Shell ‘reviewing’ Singapore chemicals assets

Added: 15 Jun 2023

Among other products, energy giant produces 155ktpa of butadiene at Bukom chemical park

Schwalbe expands usage of ‘fair rubber’ in tires

Added: 15 Jun 2023

Project directly supports rubber tappers with a premium of €0.50 per kilo

German chemicals industry ends 2020 on strong note

Biesterfeld to distribute Chem-Trend rubber release agents in Germany

Added: 15 Jun 2023

Providing improved release and rubber material flow, the products are used in tire manufacture and …

Shin-Etsu to expand silicones production in US

Shin-Etsu resumes silicone product manufacturing after fire incident

Added: 15 Jun 2023

Fire broke out at silicones production plant in Isobe, Gunma in late April

Marangoni Meccanica appoints new chief executive

Added: 14 Jun 2023

Francesco Motta brings experience from strategic roles in the machinery, mechanical systems, automa…

Swedish Tire Recycling advances major ELT project

Added: 14 Jun 2023

Gärstad facility able to process “half of the 90,000 tons of end-of-life tires that are collected a…

US processor Prism commercialises TPEs from ELTs

Added: 14 Jun 2023

Elastomer compound contains 50% post-consumer recycled contents from end-of-life tires

Automated rubber-tapping system can deliver three-fold increase in yields

Hainan Rubber progresses smart tapping with fourth-gen robots

Added: 14 Jun 2023

Chinese natural rubber major notes ‘dual pressure’ of labour costs and shortage in plantations

Datwyler targets ‘climate-neutrality’ at production sites by 2030

Added: 14 Jun 2023

Nine production plants currently powered by renewable energies

Linglong advances hydrotalcite research

Linglong Tire appoints new chief financial officer

Added: 14 Jun 2023

Newly appointed Lu Xiaoyan previously held finance roles at different Goodyear locations

Arlanxeo extends 'scientific cooperation' with Chinese university

Added: 13 Jun 2023

Sharing expertise in synthetic rubber production with Qingdao University and other institutes in Ch…

Standard Profil opening doors to more sustainable automotive sealing

Added: 13 Jun 2023

Work with carbon black supplier Birla to introduce new filler in EPDM rubber compounds

Update: Synthetic rubber pricing data

Added: 13 Jun 2023

Weekly data compiled by ChemAnalyst based on selected commodity trading activity in Europe