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Natural rubber pricing dips on freight rate changes

Added: 26 Feb 2025

But RTAE notes upwards trend in TSR20 market following end-of-month reverse

Dow launches MobilityScience platform

Petrol and diesel share of EU car sales plunges in January

Added: 26 Feb 2025

ACEA monthly report shows substantial shift in demand towards electric vehicles

Waste tire recycler Bolder pursues growth with new investor

Added: 26 Feb 2025

Private equity firm Tiger Infrastructure Partners completes “transformational" investment in US tir…

Report: Air suspension market to grow 7.5% to 2021, led by Europe

Yokohama Rubber develops theoretical model for rubber wear on uneven surfaces

Added: 26 Feb 2025

Japanese group focused on development of tires with high levels of wear resistance...

Goodyear probes third death at US tire plant

Debica hit by lower selling prices, fall-out from fire

Added: 25 Feb 2025

"Limited production capacity and lower selling-prices in transactions over the course of last year.…

Sirmax starts first TPE compounding plant in Poland

Sirmax completes expansion, starts work on new greenfield plant in India

Added: 25 Feb 2025

Italian-based producer includes thermoplastic elastomers, including TPV, SEBS, SBS, TPOs, in portfo…

Corona outbreak to impact global NR consumption 

Chinese rubber futures rise despite dip in vehicle sales

Added: 25 Feb 2025

A second week of gains in China though JPX reports mixed trading trends for the commodity

Kossan hints US China tariffs could benefit group’s export sales

Added: 25 Feb 2025

Gloves division reports improved quarter and year-on-year performances 

Flexitallic, TT Gaskets collaborate for Nordic/Baltic growth

Added: 24 Feb 2025

Target is northern Europe's market for products used in new-energy applications 

Apollo looks to add 10% production capacity for passenger car tires

Added: 23 Feb 2025

Addressing high utilisation rates in Europe, India while targeting growth opportunities in the US, …

Synthomer taps Neste-PCS linkup to offer ISCC nitrile latex to gloves industry

Added: 23 Feb 2025

Using feedstock supplied as a replacement for fossil raw materials processed at PCS facilities in S…

At the Nyíregyháza site, which manufactures air spring systems, ContiTech has invested €16 million in upgrading the 4000 m2 production space to be completed this year.

WDK reports ‘worrying situation’ facing German rubber industry

Added: 23 Feb 2025

Survey of member companies finds 40% of manufacturers facing 'strained or threatened' earnings posi…

Pyrum targets expansion with 'world’s largest' rCB mill

Added: 23 Feb 2025

Production of recovered carbon black grinding unit scheduled for third quarter of 2025 

“We are also focusing on easier or even automated removal of good and defective product or semi-finished components,” added Leendertse.

Yokohama Rubber to close US off-road tire plant

Added: 21 Feb 2025

Spartanburg facility part of the Japanese group's €2.1bn acquisition of Trelleborg Wheel Systems in…

Cooper-Standard earnings up 52% despite dip in sales

Added: 21 Feb 2025

Posts improved profit, cash flow and margin for 2024 amid lower production and foreign exchange hea…

Rubber & tire industry in numbers

Added: 21 Feb 2025

Review of the key figures and data to emerge over the last seven days from leading players worldwide

Update: Tariff-hit Chinese tire makers to “intensify” EU trade

ETRMA highlights threats facing tire manufacturers in Europe

Added: 21 Feb 2025

European Commission is urged to address competitiveness barriers within the EU single market 

Nexen develops 70% sustainable tire

Added: 21 Feb 2025

Tire features 53% bio-based materials and 17% recycled resources, according to Korean tire maker

Prism and Sherwood partnership to recycle tire materials for TPE sheets

Added: 21 Feb 2025

Partners say products can match the durability and performance of virgin materials 

Hainan Rubber to build plant for deproteinised NR 

Malaysia increases natural rubber production 25% in fourth quarter

Added: 21 Feb 2025

China remained biggest buyer accounting for 49% of overall exports