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Analysis: Lower-for-longer outlook for chemicals industry

Lotte Ube Synthetic Rubber joint venture to be ‘liquidated’

Added: 29 Oct 2024

Owners Ube, Lotte say Malaysian butadiene rubber JV impacted by market downturns

Elkem appoints Helge Aasen as permanent chief executive 

Elkem silicones back in black as volumes improve

Added: 29 Oct 2024

Improved earnings linked to higher volume, operational improvements and new production line in China

Tires among most widely purchased fake automotive parts

Added: 29 Oct 2024

UK ‘Fake always breaks’ campaign highlights serious risks posed by counterfeit vehicle components  …

Freudenberg targets fuel cell, battery technology with acquisitions

FST advances elastomer-based technologies for EV batteries

Added: 29 Oct 2024

Freudenberg Sealing Technologies unveiled a series of polymer innovations at recent 2024 Battery Sh…

Top Glove launches biodegradable gloves

Top Glove delivers ‘fully traceable’ NR gloves to Europe

Added: 29 Oct 2024

Malaysian rubber gloves maker highlights effort to comply with initial EUDR enforcement deadline at…

Work starts at Global Platform for Sustainable Natural Rubber

Malaysia's natural rubber production grew by 15% in August

Added: 29 Oct 2024

But output dropped 5.2% month-on-month, according to the latest government data

Airbag shoe nets design award for Toyoda Gosei, Asics

Added: 29 Oct 2024

Good Design Award recognises companies’ joint upcycling effort and innovative manufacturing approac…

Hexpol upbeat despite declines in sales and earnings

Added: 28 Oct 2024

Dahlberg: ‘Inflation, interest rates on way down, but we have not yet seen positive effects...’

ZC Rubber rolls out first tire at Indonesian plant

Added: 28 Oct 2024

All-steel radial tires produced at the Central Java factory destined for local and international ma…

Aeolus estimates annual net loss of up to €62m

Aeolus unveils €40m share issue plan to fund giant-tire project

Added: 28 Oct 2024

Aims to leverage technology to produce 49”-63” tires 'capable of competing with top three global br…

Michelin expects 'robust' long-term outlook for tire industry

Michelin tracks dip in OE demand, replacement market pick-up

Added: 28 Oct 2024

Demand for OE light vehicle tires down in the three main market regions during the third quarter...…

FST advances in-wheel motor seals for EVs, commercial vehicles

Added: 28 Oct 2024

Patented design said to deliver “better driving experience, greater range and more flexibility for …

Versalis dismisses reports of deal in Iran

Update: Eni sets out ‘transformation, decarbonisation, relaunch’ plan for Versalis

Added: 27 Oct 2024

Earmarks €2 billion investment over the next five years at Versalis sites in Italy to recover profi…

Feature  – JK Tyre maps out road to automation

Toyoda Gosei doubling EPDM rubber recycling capacity

Added: 25 Oct 2024

Processing line at Morimachi plant can help incorporate up to 20% recycled rubber into new products…

World NR production falls 5.2% in first quarter of 2019

NR futures gain amid supply concerns, optimism about Chinese recovery

Added: 25 Oct 2024

China’s vehicle sales increased 14% month-on-month in September to boost rubber pricing

Sibur and BASF extend polymer additives deal

RubberMove 2024: Synthetic rubber prices 'on an upward path'

Added: 25 Oct 2024

Philippines rubber conference tracks supply and demand issues across global synthetic rubber sector…

US tire distributor ATD files for Chapter 11 protection

Added: 25 Oct 2024

Enters restructuring agreement with lenders to transition ownership and continue serving manufactur…

HF in "breakthrough" with electric tire-curing technology

Added: 24 Oct 2024

Machinery major set to offer electric-heating technology in new curing presses as well as in retrof…

Michelin lowers full-year outlook on 4% decline in nine-month sales

Added: 24 Oct 2024

French group reports ‘significant drop in volumes’, reduction of activities in factories

Trelleborg shifting shape following acquisitions, divestments

Trelleborg reports flat quarter with ‘mixed performance’ across segments

Added: 24 Oct 2024

Earnings hit by decline in industrial segment as macroeconomic environment weakened