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Michelin names new director for German truck tire plant

Added: 7 Jun 2022

Michelin names new director for German truck tire plant

Toyo Europe reorganises ahead of production launch in Serbia

Added: 6 Jun 2022

New holding company to strengthen governance in Europe

TPC completes second phase of butadiene plant start-up

Butadiene supplier TPC files for chapter 11 bankruptcy protection

Added: 6 Jun 2022

"Comprehensive pre-arranged financial restructuring" to resolve liabilities arising from 2019 Port …

Global ZnO market to reach 1.4m tonnes in 2020

Merger creates ‘preeminent' global zinc chemicals supplier

Added: 6 Jun 2022

New York-based investment company Aterian combines US Zinc with EverZinc

Malaysian gloves industry renews commitment to social compliance

Added: 6 Jun 2022

Gloves association mees US customs and border protection officials

Explosion and fire at Synthos synthetic rubber plant

Synthos raising butadiene rubber capacity by 50%

Added: 1 Jun 2022

Projects to address shortages “creating huge difficulties for tire producers in Europe”

DSM set to raise elastomer prices globally

Lanxess JV in €3.7bn deal to buy DSM engineering materials unit

Added: 1 Jun 2022

German chemicals supplier to transfer high-performance materials business to JV

Natural rubber markets decline on weakening short-term outlook

Rubber markets close higher as Shanghai lockdown comes to an end

Added: 1 Jun 2022

All major Far East markets monitored by ERJ report growth over the two weeks to 27 May

Rubber recyclate 'can double the life of sun-baked roads'

Added: 1 Jun 2022

Optimised bitumen-rubber blend shows enhanced resistance to UV and loading

Birla to raise carbon black prices in North America

Birla announces 200ktpa carbon black expansion

Added: 31 May 2022

Investment across multiple sites in Europe, Asia

SaarGummi in technical deal with the Korean automotive supplier

German automotive suppliers voice concern over ‘cost pressure’

Added: 31 May 2022

Call on federal government to address "the existential energy price crisis"

Elastomers for Sustainability judging panel announced

Sustainability: Biomaterials to the fore in new E4S ranking

Added: 31 May 2022

The fifth staging of ERJ’s Top 10 ranking of materials science-based projects

Denka raising chloroprene rubber prices

Denka to raise styrene monomer prices

Added: 31 May 2022

"Business profits are deteriorating due to significant increases in costs..."

Nynas chief executive Bo Askvik steps down

Added: 31 May 2022

Company introduces Stein Ivar Bye as interim CEO

Brexit 'prompts carmakers to look towards eastern Europe'

UK April car production falls 11%

Added: 31 May 2022

Decline driven by multiple factors, including chip shortage, model and structural changes

Goodyear ‘imagines’ airless tires by 2030

Added: 30 May 2022

Aims to produce “first 100% sustainable material and maintenance-free tire…”

Wacker to expand silicon metal production

Added: 30 May 2022

Norway site to increase capacity of product - a raw material for silicone rubber - by 50%

Cabot ready for take-off as economic recovery strengthens 

Cabot raising prices for silica products

Added: 30 May 2022

Price increase of 15% to come into effect 1 July

Nynas to sharpen focus in European markets

Added: 30 May 2022

Swedish refiner to also target 'selected products segments' in Americas, Asia Pacific 

Dow launches new mouldable optical silicone for automotive lights

Added: 30 May 2022

New material offers four times faster throughput compared to existing products