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Bridgestone launches US project to advance bio-butadiene technology

Added: 24 Oct 2024

Secures grant to design, build and operate a pilot plant to advance extraction of butadiene from et…

Tire recycler Pyrum raises €10m with new share issue

Added: 24 Oct 2024

Proceeds to be used for construction of second ELT pyrolysis site in Germany, other JV project

Linglong still mulling locations for third overseas plant

Added: 23 Oct 2024

Chinese tire maker has Mexico, Brazil, Morocco in the frame but “nothing is fixed yet...”

Top Glove resumes expansion projects as order flow improves

Added: 23 Oct 2024

Group remains “cautiously optimistic” amid volatile business environment affected by geopolitical f…

New IRCo leader foresees natural rubber shortage

IRSG urged to reconvene World Rubber Summit 2024

Added: 23 Oct 2024

Common Fund for Commodities highlights importance of event “postponed at the very last minute due t…

VMI links Pirelli supplier award to UNIXX programme

Added: 23 Oct 2024

System enables enhanced process control: lowering weight of tire compounds and waste levels...

Technology: Freudenberg unveils new rotary seal for process industry

Freudenberg NOK moving seals production unit in India to new plant

Added: 23 Oct 2024

Manufacturer relocating automotive seals production from Basma factory to site in the same state

UK chemicals makers say growth has ‘almost disappeared’

Added: 23 Oct 2024

CIA reports halt to recovery against backdrop of rising costs, sluggish demand and Chinese competit…

Michelin starts expansion project at tire plant in India

Added: 22 Oct 2024

Includes new passenger car tire facility employing Industry 5.0 principles, digitalisation technolo…

Trelleborg posts 15% growth in first half

Trelleborg to acquire US sealings distributor CRC

Added: 22 Oct 2024

Alabama-based business focuses on US domestic market, recently expanded to Mexico

Linglong Tire expects up to 80% growth in earnings

Added: 22 Oct 2024

Chinese tire group says volumes increased 11% during the first three quarter of 2024

Pirelli launches motorcycle tire production in Argentina

Pirelli recalls 3k tires in US for potential tread separation defect

Added: 22 Oct 2024

Tires manufactured at Pirelli’s production facility in Breuberg, Germany

Kumho fined for alleged safety violations at US tire plant

US authority fines Kumho Tire over fatal injury

Added: 22 Oct 2024

Korean tire maker to pay $271K in penalties as OSHA finds 15 safety violations

ANRPC: Outlook remains weak for short-term NR price recovery 

RubberMove 2024: Natural rubber industry ‘must tap new opportunities’

Added: 22 Oct 2024

International conference hears innovation and sustainability offer the way forward for NR value-cha…

EU starts registering Chinese truck & bus tire imports

US raises duties on TBR tire imports from Thailand

Added: 21 Oct 2024

Department of Commerce opts for dumping margins much higher than the previously announced rates 

Gloves buoy Malaysia rubber-product exports 

Top Glove delivers highest volume growth since Covid

Added: 21 Oct 2024

Malaysian gloves maker back in black; ‘positioned for profitability’ as industry recovers

India extends anti-dumping duties on rubber chemicals from EU, China

India initiates antidumping probe into NBR imports

Added: 21 Oct 2024

Investigations include acrylonitrile-butadiene rubber imports from China, EU, Korea and Russia

Ceat more than doubles earnings, posts ‘highest’ quarterly revenue

Added: 21 Oct 2024

Revenue outlook remains positive as Indian tire maker takes ‘selective prices increases’

Longxing Chemical starts trial production on carbon black expansion project

Added: 21 Oct 2024

Chinese group's project 'to add 200ktpa of production capacity for carbon black at Shanxi facility.…

ZC Rubber to start up China carbon black plant by yearend

Added: 18 Oct 2024

Project at Tianjin facility to produce 85ktpa of both soft and hard carbon black grades