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Semperit offers new range of protective gloves

Semperit expects gloves divestment by mid-2023

Added: 13 Apr 2023

First closing will see large parts of gloves business sold to Singapore-based Harps

Update: Tariff-hit Chinese tire makers to “intensify” EU trade

Update: EU reimposes anti-dumping duties on Chinese truck & bus tires

Added: 12 Apr 2023

Commission addresses legal issues with previously applied five-year anti-dumping and countervailing…

Titan announces price increase

US to maintain tariffs on off-road tires from India

Added: 12 Apr 2023

Sunset review determines that revoking duties would cause material injury to local industry

Equity firm backs liquid crystal elastomers start-up

Added: 12 Apr 2023

LC AuxeTec developing auxetic materials which become thicker rather than thinner when stretched

Pyrum to recycle waste tires from Mercedes-Benz

Added: 12 Apr 2023

Deal marks ‘next step’ in partnership that sees pyrolysis oil used for Mercedes parts

Biesterfeld to supply Denka acrylate rubbers

New chloroprene limits in EPA emissions proposals

Added: 12 Apr 2023

US agency updates chemical plant regulations with rubber monomer among its targets

Silicone key to growth in regulation-driven EV markets

Added: 12 Apr 2023

Global market “very dynamic with the supply-chain realigning at the moment…”

Prinx Chengshan targets Thailand for new tire plant

Prinx eyes new markets for expanded Thai, Chinese tire plants

Added: 11 Apr 2023

Group recently suspended plans to build a second domestic tire plant due to economic slowdown

Industry group shares 15 years of tire particle research for free

Toxicity of tire wear particles rising up industry agenda

Added: 11 Apr 2023

A challenge ‘to get ahead on, because this is a harder issue to solve and potentially more problema…

Natural rubber futures dip on global industry data

Added: 11 Apr 2023

Concerns over manufacturing trends end pricing rally seen over previous couple of weeks

Bridgestone rolls out 75% sustainable-material tires

Added: 11 Apr 2023

Demo product employs recycled plastics, recovered carbon black, guayule rubber...



Hose manufacturer Norres launches plant ugrades

New owner for industrial hose maker Norres Baggerman

Added: 11 Apr 2023

Triton selling German-based rubber & plastics hose manufacturer to another equity firm

Goodyear eyes investment in US truck and earthmover factory

US court overturns ruling against Goodyear in self-inflating tire case

Added: 6 Apr 2023

District judge rules that Czechia-based Coda's 'trade secrets' were ‘too vague to be legally protec…

Emerald Performance Materials sells additives businesses

Japan synthetic rubber maker advances “world first” AI production

Added: 6 Apr 2023

ENEOS Materials: Autonomous control enhances plant operation, quality, safety and environmental per…

Freudenberg targets fuel cell, battery technology with acquisitions

Freudenberg Sealing Technologies unveils expansion at Spanish site

Added: 6 Apr 2023

New facility will produce components for both electric and internal combustion engine vehicles

Lanxess, Advent launch new engineering polymers JV Envalior

Added: 6 Apr 2023

With €4bn turnover, company combines DSM Engineering Materials and Lanxess high-performance materia…

Formerra acquires Irish medical polymers supplier TPS

Added: 6 Apr 2023

Total Polymer Solutions expands US plastics & elastomers distributor’s footprint in Europe

Workforce optimisation 'easing the challenges of the tire sector'

Added: 6 Apr 2023

Contributed article by Andy Graham, solutions manager at UK-based industrial software company Solut…

Prinx Chengshan targets Thailand for new tire plant

Prinx Chengshan halts major tire project due to 'economic situation'

Added: 5 Apr 2023

Planned project was to have established the company's second tire plant in China

Strike threat at Hankook – report

Hankook updates investors about chairman's 'indictment' charges

Added: 5 Apr 2023

Korean tire group files form titled 'Suspicion of embezzlement or misappropriation by officers or e…