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Rubber Price Monitor: Mixed picture
Added: 4 Jun 2020
Natural rubber futures closed slightly lower on the Shanghai Futures Exchange, posting a 0.2% week-…
Trelleborg supplies sealing systems to Hong Kong immersed tunnel project
Added: 4 Jun 2020
Products must withstand extreme pressures to prevent water ingress as well as severe ground movemen…

Conti looks to cut dividend, raise sustainability at upcoming AGM
Added: 4 Jun 2020
Pledges full transition to renewable sources for all externally procured electricity this year

Rockwell manager: ‘People key to post-pandemic tire industry’
Added: 4 Jun 2020
Upskilling will drive productivity in the digital future, Dominique Scheider tells ERJ Livestream
China compounder Guanlian to build industrial park
Added: 3 Jun 2020
Site to cover segments such as automotive low pressure hose, sealing rings and damping air cushions…

Michelin targets 'customer centricity' with new UK appointments
Added: 3 Jun 2020
Roles part of a new flatter structure to help teams make faster decisions

Arlanxeo producing disinfectants to help Covid fight
Added: 3 Jun 2020
First part delivery of 700 litres has been made to Dormagen’s fire and rescue service

Conti belts replace gearbox in Chinese wind turbines
Added: 3 Jun 2020
Company adds new facility in German town of Dannenberg to meet the order

Engel develops Covid swabs production process
Added: 3 Jun 2020
Technology targets high-volume manufacturing of two-component swabs

Guizhou Tyre expanding engineering tire capacity
Added: 3 Jun 2020
Chinese tire maker aims to raise total production capacity by 8% this year

RIEG to hold technical session online
Added: 3 Jun 2020
Event to focus on elastomers in electronic vehicles and examine properties required for such applic…

ANRPC revises down natural rubber outlook, again
Added: 2 Jun 2020
Market recovery to continue “at a slow pace and subject to a set of risk factors”

Australian scientists claim waste-based 'self-repairing' rubber
Added: 2 Jun 2020
Study reveals a new concept in the repair, adhesion and recycling of sustainable rubber

Avon reports higher sales, profits in first half
Added: 2 Jun 2020
UK rubber group links growth to “strong contributions” from both protection and dairy segments
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TPC facing $500k fine for butadiene plant explosion
Added: 2 Jun 2020
Company has 15 business days to comply or contest the findings of OSHA

BASF starts construction on Chinese TPU plant
Added: 2 Jun 2020
Plant part of $10-billion integrated project in the southern province of Guangdong

Yokohama resumes production at US tire plant
Added: 2 Jun 2020
Yokohama has implemented new safety procedures and protocols for the reopening

Cooper restarts manufacturing at Mexican tire factory
Added: 2 Jun 2020
Tire maker was forced to idle the factory in late April as Mexican government ruled the operation "…

Goodyear reviewing French court ruling on ‘unfair dismissal’
Added: 2 Jun 2020
Case concerns the closure of passenger car and farm tire production plant in Amiens in 2014

JK Tyre launches operations in the US
Added: 1 Jun 2020
Indian-headquartered tire maker says new entity represents “a big leap forward in its global journe…