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Avon Rubber seeking new CEO as business grows

Avon Protection names new executive chair to head company

Added: 30 Sep 2022

UK rubber-based products group say arrangement in place until new chief executive appointed

Yokohama Rubber exiting karting tires business

Added: 30 Sep 2022

Move part of Japanese tire maker’s “Transformation 2023” strategy

Evonik in link-up for industrial scale supply of rice ash silica to tire industry

Added: 29 Sep 2022

New plant, to be built in collaboration with Austrian and Thai partners, set for 2024 commissioning

India’s Epsilon Carbon adding 100ktpa of carbon black capacity

Added: 29 Sep 2022

New €70m investment to increase total production by 85%

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

New EU sanctions against Russia to impact tire & rubber sector?

Added: 29 Sep 2022

Eighth package of measures to include “sweeping new import bans” and crackdown on circumvention of …

SaarGummi expanding in Europe with Polish facilities move

Added: 29 Sep 2022

Signs contract with real estate group for lease of “tens of thousands of square metres of warehouse…

COG introduces new hydrogen seal materials

Added: 29 Sep 2022

EPDM and FKM compounds to meet demanding challenges around impermeability and in-use conditions

Frameless sealing ‘making inroads in premium automotive market’

Added: 29 Sep 2022

Cooper Standard says adoption being supported by trends around sustainability and electrification

Enviro, Michelin agree terms for strategic partnership

Enviro advances plan for second tire recycling plant in Sweden

Added: 28 Sep 2022

Final investment decision still dependent on securing ELT supplies, logistics agreements

Rubber futures continue to gain

Added: 28 Sep 2022

Second week of closing higher as Chinese market picks up

Hankook debuts 30% sustainable material Formual E tires

Added: 28 Sep 2022

Korean tire maker takes over from Michelin to become exclusive tire supplier of the event

Flexsys on growth path despite ‘turbulent’ environment

Added: 28 Sep 2022

Tire additives supplier unlocks additional insoluble sulphur and antidegradant capacity

New plant breeder joins Conti’s dandelion rubber project

Added: 28 Sep 2022

‘Internationally active’ Kartoffelzucht Boehm is specialised in the breeding of cultivated plants

‘Light at end of tunnel’ for synthetic rubber makers

Added: 27 Sep 2022

Easing in supply-side inflation, energy prices, fiscal measures to support “modest growth” in 2023,…

Arkema raising elastomer production capacity by 40%

Added: 27 Sep 2022

French materials supplier notes increasing demand for bio-based grades derived from renewable casto…

Leoni opens new innovation centre to address future mobility

Added: 27 Sep 2022

Integrated processes and automation in production to boost productivity

SBR, EPDM prices decline as synthetic rubber market steadies

Added: 27 Sep 2022

Other commodities post slight improvements in European trading over the past week

Huebner claims ‘world first’ with steering system for trams on rubber wheels

Added: 27 Sep 2022

New technology controls six axles of high-capacity buses in urban areas

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

India to extend China tire duties for another three years

Added: 26 Sep 2022

Sunset review covers new tires larger than 16" for truck & bus applications

Japan sulphur products supplier Tsurumi expands with acquisition

Added: 26 Sep 2022

Tokyo-based manufacturer buying insoluble sulphur business of Nippon Kanryu Industry