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Klean progresses tire pyrolysis projects

Klean Industries tapping blockchain for waste tire recycling

Added: 16 Aug 2022

Platform enables "end-to-end" supply management for any recycling, waste processing and waste-to-en…

Workers start strike at four Elkem sites

Added: 16 Aug 2022

Norwegian supplier ‘working to evaluate’ operational impacts

Apollo responds to BSE question over Malaysian plan

Apollo reports double-digit growth in sales, earnings

Added: 15 Aug 2022

Tighter control on costs, pricing helps offset increase in raw material prices

Under WTO rules, companies buying in from the US or the Middle East, for example, pay tariffs of 6.5 percent, though these extra costs might be offset in the UK by a fall in the value of sterling.

Pirelli expects to offset rising costs in second half

Added: 15 Aug 2022

Casaluci: “We will more than cover all the inflation with price/mix and efficiencies…”

Zeon starts full-scale production at Thai acrylic rubber plant

Zeon elastomer profits down on lower volumes, latex decline

Added: 15 Aug 2022

Japanese group reports sales up 10% driven by price adjustments

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Rubber futures in the doldrums

Added: 15 Aug 2022

JPX reports “no clear market direction, keeping many traders on the side-line.” 

Press Release: Kuraray develops new photocurable elastomer

Kuraray raising prices for liquid rubber

Added: 15 Aug 2022

Adjustment prompted by 'extra-ordinary increases' in raw materials, freight costs

Bridgestone, Microsoft extend collaboration to advance tire analytics

Added: 15 Aug 2022

Japanese group to use Microsoft Azure to better understand tire wear and casing condition

Testing times for silicones industry

Wacker bringing bio-based silicone rubbers to K expo

Added: 15 Aug 2022

ERJ spotlights rubber-related technologies lined up for K2022, the world’s largest plastics & rubbe…

Technology: Pirelli simulator brings F1 experience to road

Virtual tire development delivering real gains for Pirelli

Added: 14 Aug 2022

Italian tire maker reports 30% reduction in material development times through use of AI technologi…

Cabot launches engineered elastomer composites for tires

Cabot looks into expansion, M&As for next phase of growth

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Carbon black supplier sees substantial increase in demand amid war woes

Bridgestone investing €26m in SE Asia NR plantations

Added: 12 Aug 2022

Group to introduce “elite trees” to double harvest volume 

Cooper Standard in link-up for EV fluid control technology

Added: 12 Aug 2022

Signs joint development agreement with Italian thermal management systems maker Industrie Saleri 

Japan helps Yokohama to record sales, earnings

Yokohama sales, profit up amid headwinds

Added: 12 Aug 2022

Japanese tire manufacturer raises outlook for full year

China’s 11-month tire production records first growth in 2020

Analysis: What next for China’s Covid-hit tire markets?

Added: 12 Aug 2022

Tire makers hoping to avoid return to challenges that emerged during the first half of 2022

Toyo revises up annual forecast as Serbia plant starts production

Added: 11 Aug 2022

North America performs strongly amid robust demand

US council supports rubber fill in playgrounds

EU lowers PAH limit in rubber infill for synthetic turf

Added: 11 Aug 2022

Regulation covers eight polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in rubber granules

Sumitomo Rubber's Q1 profits drop 54% on lower sales volume

Sumitomo Rubber profits drop 53%

Added: 11 Aug 2022

Sales up despite OE drop in Japan, China’s Covid resurgence

DuPont adds TPE line to pharma tubing range

DuPont to add biopharma silicone tubing plant in China

Added: 11 Aug 2022

Move follows opening of new production facility in South Carolina

Bridgestone adds curing bladder facility in China

Bridgestone revises up outlook on strong tire sales

Added: 10 Aug 2022

But Japanese group expects challenging business environment to continue in third quarter