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Rubber products ban part of new EU sanctions on Russia
Added: 13 Apr 2022
Latest measures against Putin regime include import bans on tires and wide range of rubber-based in…

MESNAC reports major gains in sales and earnings
Added: 13 Apr 2022
Growth in rubber equipment business and new chemical industry subsidiary

Kuraray raising prices of elastomer materials
Added: 13 Apr 2022
Japanese company links the move to increasing feedstock prices, utility and logistics costs

Shin-Etsu Chemical advances one-component LSR
Added: 13 Apr 2022
Liquid silicone rubber product claimed to offer improved cure properties and safety

New EU sanctions prompt Nokian to accelerate production plans
Added: 12 Apr 2022
Ramping up production capacity in Finland and US in response to Russia trade bans

Continental to sell Project TREE tires in UK
Added: 12 Apr 2022
Pilot part of drive to improve transparency, sustainability in natural rubber supply-chain

Cooper Standard adds former Bridgestone exec to senior management team
Added: 12 Apr 2022
Shannon Quinn named vice president, chief commercial and strategy officer

Teijin floats 'sea-island' nanofibre reinforcement for tires, rubber goods
Added: 11 Apr 2022
Advanced fibre structure said to offer significant processing and performance advantages
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Concrete evidence supports role for ELT rubber in buildings
Added: 11 Apr 2022
UniSA team finds that tire recyclate offers safe, green alternative to conventional building materi…

Zochem to expand zinc oxide production
Added: 11 Apr 2022
Company to focus on sustainability in product offerings

Nokian makes €106m dividend cut to help fund new European plant
Added: 8 Apr 2022
Tire maker no longer investing in Russian production but factory remains open

Updated: Goodyear enters partnership to advance dandelion rubber in US
Added: 8 Apr 2022
Programme supported by department of defence and Air Force research lab

Trelleborg halts construction of sealings plant in Russia
Added: 8 Apr 2022
Swedish group says has ‘no manufacturing site or sales’ in the country

Sailun says wet-mixing technology ‘game-changer’ for tire industry
Added: 8 Apr 2022
Company officially launches Ecopoint3 process to deliver ‘right rubber balance’

Denka to raise prices for chloroprene rubber
Added: 8 Apr 2022
Japanese supplier "facing difficulty of continuous and huge cost-increase in our production..."

Amaplast ‘alarmed’ by price hikes, raw materials shortage
Added: 7 Apr 2022
Three Italian associations call for “urgent action” to rethink Europe's industrial policies
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Update: India investigating four tire makers for alleged cartel activities
Added: 7 Apr 2022
Competition authority carried out raids at multiple sites across India

Freudenberg Sealing advances defect detection with new in-house technology
Added: 7 Apr 2022
Machine vision inspection system eliminates some process steps involved in quality control

UK car market declines in critical ‘new numberplate’ month
Added: 7 Apr 2022
Weakest March since 1998 as supply chain shortages constrain deliveries

Synthomer forms adhesives technologies division following Eastman deal closure
Added: 7 Apr 2022
Among other products, the unit produces Impera-branded hydrogenated resins for tire & rubber indust…