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Tires among most widely purchased fake automotive parts
Added: 29 Oct 2024
UK ‘Fake always breaks’ campaign highlights serious risks posed by counterfeit vehicle components …

Elkem silicones back in black as volumes improve
Added: 29 Oct 2024
Improved earnings linked to higher volume, operational improvements and new production line in China

FST advances elastomer-based technologies for EV batteries
Added: 29 Oct 2024
Freudenberg Sealing Technologies unveiled a series of polymer innovations at recent 2024 Battery Sh…

Top Glove delivers ‘fully traceable’ NR gloves to Europe
Added: 29 Oct 2024
Malaysian rubber gloves maker highlights effort to comply with initial EUDR enforcement deadline at…

Malaysia's natural rubber production grew by 15% in August
Added: 29 Oct 2024
But output dropped 5.2% month-on-month, according to the latest government data

Airbag shoe nets design award for Toyoda Gosei, Asics
Added: 29 Oct 2024
Good Design Award recognises companies’ joint upcycling effort and innovative manufacturing approac…

Hexpol upbeat despite declines in sales and earnings
Added: 28 Oct 2024
Dahlberg: ‘Inflation, interest rates on way down, but we have not yet seen positive effects...’
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ZC Rubber rolls out first tire at Indonesian plant
Added: 28 Oct 2024
All-steel radial tires produced at the Central Java factory destined for local and international ma…

Aeolus unveils €40m share issue plan to fund giant-tire project
Added: 28 Oct 2024
Aims to leverage technology to produce 49”-63” tires 'capable of competing with top three global br…

Michelin tracks dip in OE demand, replacement market pick-up
Added: 28 Oct 2024
Demand for OE light vehicle tires down in the three main market regions during the third quarter...…

FST advances in-wheel motor seals for EVs, commercial vehicles
Added: 28 Oct 2024
Patented design said to deliver “better driving experience, greater range and more flexibility for …

Update: Eni sets out ‘transformation, decarbonisation, relaunch’ plan for Versalis
Added: 27 Oct 2024
Earmarks €2 billion investment over the next five years at Versalis sites in Italy to recover profi…

Toyoda Gosei doubling EPDM rubber recycling capacity
Added: 25 Oct 2024
Processing line at Morimachi plant can help incorporate up to 20% recycled rubber into new products…

NR futures gain amid supply concerns, optimism about Chinese recovery
Added: 25 Oct 2024
China’s vehicle sales increased 14% month-on-month in September to boost rubber pricing

RubberMove 2024: Synthetic rubber prices 'on an upward path'
Added: 25 Oct 2024
Philippines rubber conference tracks supply and demand issues across global synthetic rubber sector…

US tire distributor ATD files for Chapter 11 protection
Added: 25 Oct 2024
Enters restructuring agreement with lenders to transition ownership and continue serving manufactur…

HF in "breakthrough" with electric tire-curing technology
Added: 24 Oct 2024
Machinery major set to offer electric-heating technology in new curing presses as well as in retrof…

Michelin lowers full-year outlook on 4% decline in nine-month sales
Added: 24 Oct 2024
French group reports ‘significant drop in volumes’, reduction of activities in factories
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Trelleborg reports flat quarter with ‘mixed performance’ across segments
Added: 24 Oct 2024
Earnings hit by decline in industrial segment as macroeconomic environment weakened

Bridgestone launches US project to advance bio-butadiene technology
Added: 24 Oct 2024
Secures grant to design, build and operate a pilot plant to advance extraction of butadiene from et…