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Wacker expects 46% increase in silicones earnings
Added: 11 Feb 2025
German group reports overall decline in results, due mainly to lower prices, polysilicon volumes
Raw materials costs, sluggish OE demand weigh on Apollo Tyres earnings
Added: 11 Feb 2025
Indian tire maker notes “flattish trend” in the current quarter
WDK urges business-friendly policy to replace “absurd” EU bureaucracy
Added: 11 Feb 2025
Klein calls for more ambitious EU Commission initiative to simplify reporting obligations
Comment: Formula 1 racing towards sustainability?
Added: 11 Feb 2025
Former leader makes the case for the Fair Rubber Association's approach to sustainable sourcing...
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Hainan Rubber expects 70% drop in 2024 profit despite higher NR prices
Added: 11 Feb 2025
Typhoon Makar, other ‘non-core’ businesses impacted profits significantly
Essentially Rubber: Graphene nanotubes advance skin electrodes
Added: 11 Feb 2025
Silicone electrodes exhibit “unmatched skin comfort and outstanding body adhesion”
Nexen results hit by "weak" North America despite record revenue
Added: 10 Feb 2025
Downstream distribution costs, including logistics and warehousing, weighed on operating results
Datwyler “cautiously optimistic” despite 33% decline in earnings
Added: 10 Feb 2025
Swiss group links lower earnings to one-off effect of restructuring launched in final quarter of 20…
Tyros to build tire pyrolysis plant at Belgian port
Added: 10 Feb 2025
Site will eventually process 100ktpa of tires, of which almost 20% will be via on-site pyrolysis...…
Bridgestone adds driving simulator to enhance tire development
Added: 10 Feb 2025
New ‘driver-in-the-loop’ simulator added to group’s EMEA research & development base in Rome
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Polycomp: Driving innovation in high performance rubber compounds
Added: 10 Feb 2025
Specialist in developing and producing high-performance compounds for demanding and critical applic…
Cabot carbon black sales down on softer volumes in US
Added: 7 Feb 2025
Europe volumes increase as sanctions on supply from Russia, Belarus come into full effect
Zeon upgrades earnings forecast as elastomer margins improve
Added: 7 Feb 2025
Elastomers division reports 4% increase in earnings despite year-on-year dip in volumes
VCI explores impact of US tariffs on global trade
Added: 7 Feb 2025
German institutes forecast “serious economic disruptions" in North America, lesser impacts elsewher…
Rubber & tire industry in numbers
Added: 7 Feb 2025
Review of the key figures and data to emerge over the last seven days from leading players worldwid…
Bridgestone, partners intensify work to commercialise plant-based tires
Added: 6 Feb 2025
Collaborating with Eneos Materials and JGC Holding to produce bio-tires by first half of 2030
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Cabot chief assesses US tariffs' impact, calls situation ‘very dynamic’
Added: 6 Feb 2025
The effect of tariffs will vary from country to country, but could impact overall underlying demand…
Goodyear announces 850 job cuts linked to TBR plant repurposing
Added: 6 Feb 2025
US tire maker focusing on mixing and aviation tires at Danville factory, moving TBR production to o…
Contec, Orion ink tire pyrolysis oil supply agreement
Added: 6 Feb 2025
“Long-term” deal to meet growing demand for ‘circular’ carbon black in tires, rubber goods
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Yokohama TWS strengthens EMEA operations with Turkish subsidiary
Added: 6 Feb 2025
Off-highway tire maker says Turkey a 'key market', particularly in agriculture tire sector
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