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Bridgestone awarded $35m grant to advance guayule rubber project

Added: 18 Nov 2022

Funding to be used to expand tire maker’s natural rubber production in southwestern US

Compounder Mocom advances bio-EPDM, recycled content TPVs

Added: 18 Nov 2022

German manufacturer says up to 90% of CO2 savings possible with new mix of materials

India set to impose anti-dumping duties on Chinese TBR tires

Aeolus unveils €82m expansion plan to add ‘giant tire’ capacity

Added: 17 Nov 2022

Project at Jiaozuo manufacturing facility to be completed in 18 months

Toyo revises down earnings forecast amid low utilisation rate in US

Added: 17 Nov 2022

Strong dollar helps drive ‘record-high’ sales over the first nine months of the year

Top Glove doubles sales orders ahead of “very robust” H2

Top Glove expects demand to return next year as customers deplete stocks

Added: 17 Nov 2022

Full year earnings fall 93% amid soft demand, low selling prices for latex gloves

New-look Bridgestone to emerge under 10-year plan

Goodyear in link-up to advance mobility efforts in Israel

Added: 17 Nov 2022

Tire maker to offer collaboration and investment opportunities for Drive’s startup network

Asahi Kasei sets up EU base for automotive focus

Asahi Kasei gains sustainability recognition for synthetic rubber, other materials

Added: 17 Nov 2022

Japanese group receives ISCC Plus certification on multiple products at multiple sites

Evonik seeks buyer or partner for acrylics business

German chemicals makers issue energy price-break plea

Added: 16 Nov 2022

VCI reports 1.6% fall in quarterly revenue to mark first decline in two years

Apollo responds to BSE question over Malaysian plan

Apollo buoyed by 'better-than-market' European results 

Added: 16 Nov 2022

Indian tire maker upbeat as raw materials prices “tapering off”

In its half-yearly financial report, the Austrian speciality rubber and plastics products group said it was also expecting to continue capacities expansion in the second half of 2015, in both the medical and industrial sectors, with €50 million earmarked for growth investments.

Semperit reports 73% decline in earnings as gloves unit swings to loss

Added: 16 Nov 2022

Industrial sector 'defies market environment', reports doubel-digit growth

Sumitomo targets 'rubber & beyond' in new corporate philosophy

Sumitomo Rubber profits fall 61% amid ‘persisting stagnation’

Added: 16 Nov 2022

Tire business see 85% decline in profits while sports unit reports growing demand 

Enviro fuel-from-tires project is "feasible"

Enviro pyrolysis oil passes ‘biofuel tests’

Added: 16 Nov 2022

A “leading US oil company” carried out tests on waste tire-driven oil

Canadian coatings manufacturer GBIE adds new facility for automotive weatherseals

Added: 16 Nov 2022

New facility in Ontorio to supply to OEMs in North America, Europe

Toyo set to officially open Serbian tire plant next month

Added: 15 Nov 2022

Japanese tire maker's first European facility scheduled to reach 5m production capacity by autumn 2…

Automotive market bouncing back "quicker than expected" in US

OE tire demand picks up as automotive chip shortage begins to ease

Added: 15 Nov 2022

But tire makers have mixed views about rate of recovery following two years of disruption

Synthetic rubber prices gain, butadiene continues bearish run

Added: 15 Nov 2022

ChemAnalyst data shows monomer pricing down by more 30% compared to mid-September

HF Mixing adds modern building at German HQ to improve work process agility

Added: 15 Nov 2022

Freudenberg building symbolises ‘modern, agile and cross-disciplinary work’

VDMA calls for 'young appeal' as rubber & plastics industry faces skills shortage

Added: 15 Nov 2022

"We are an industry that is in the midst of ecological change, and one which is in the lead in term…

Yokohama, Bridgestone to hike truck tire prices in US 

Yokohama reports ‘record high’ profits, revenue

Added: 14 Nov 2022

Higher sales, weak yen offset costs of raw materials, China lockdown

Global stock markets recovery boost NR futures

Added: 14 Nov 2022

Markets gain across Asia as China shortens Covid quarantine period