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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…

DRAFT Rubber machinery on recovery track

MESNAC reports major gains in sales and earnings

Added: 13 Apr 2022

Growth in rubber equipment business and new chemical industry subsidiary

Kuraray ditches Marubeni to sell elastomers directly in Europe

Kuraray raising prices of elastomer materials

Added: 13 Apr 2022

Japanese company links the move to increasing feedstock prices, utility and logistics costs

Zeon nanorubber pad is cool for computers

Shin-Etsu Chemical advances one-component LSR

Added: 13 Apr 2022

Liquid silicone rubber product claimed to offer improved cure properties and safety

 Nokian's plant in Nokia, Finland

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 reports strong 2016 financials

Cooper Standard adds former Bridgestone exec to senior management team

Added: 12 Apr 2022

Shannon Quinn named vice president, chief commercial and strategy officer

Report: Kolon to invest $500m in new tire cord plant

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

UK scrap-tire site proposals ‘could cost over 1,000 jobs’

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 parent completes Chapter 11 restructuring

Zochem to expand zinc oxide production

Added: 11 Apr 2022

Company to focus on sustainability in product offerings

Nokian restarts manufacturing at Russian plant

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 launches major restructuring programme

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 develops new high-performance elastomer

Denka to raise prices for chloroprene rubber

Added: 8 Apr 2022

Japanese supplier "facing difficulty of continuous and huge cost-increase in our production..."

Italian plastics & rubber machinery exports hit a “trough”

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

Carbon black shortfall rocks India's rubber industry

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

Record high for UK car exports

UK car market declines in critical ‘new numberplate’ month

Added: 7 Apr 2022

Weakest March since 1998 as supply chain shortages constrain deliveries

Synthomer lowers business outlook on SBR weakness

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…