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Corrections to ERJ Machinery Survey  

Tire Tracker: Toyo Proxes tire wins Red Dot award

Added: 10 Oct 2023

Latest news on fitments, testing and related innovations...

European tire sector still leads the way

Added: 10 Oct 2023

Amid mounting challenges, major players in the European tire industry delivered high sales and earn…

SR price pressures ‘set to ease’ after Q2

India launches investigation into halobutyl rubber imports

Added: 9 Oct 2023

Anti-dumping probe to cover imports from Japan, Russia, Singapore, UK and US

Sailun to expand TBR capacity in China

Sailun Group encouraged to invest in South Africa

Added: 9 Oct 2023

Ambassador to China briefed on latest technology, including production of ‘liquid rubber’ tires

Rubber producers to cut exports

Natural rubber futures dip amid Chinese market holiday

Added: 9 Oct 2023

Subdued trading, strong US dollar and crude drop impact pricing...

REP reports increased interest at K2019

Rubber moulding machinery maker REP names new chief executive

Added: 9 Oct 2023

Management change coincides with digital transformation, development of new rubber injection presses

Norway CO2 emissions decision to impact Elkem operations

Added: 9 Oct 2023

New budget proposes to raise deductible quota price floor for CO2 emissions

Ansell framework to provide reliable product-sustainability information

Added: 9 Oct 2023

Ansell Earth presents “science-based claims” across material, manufacturing, packaging, use, and en…

US environment agency rules for mandatory PFAS reporting

Added: 9 Oct 2023

Manufacturers required to report use of all fluorine-containing chemicalsand polymers...

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Arkema to expand organic peroxides capacity in China

Added: 6 Oct 2023

Launches €50m expansion project at Changshu site, partly to meet growing demand in solar energy app…

Smithers acquires ‘indoor testing’ business for tires and wheels

Added: 6 Oct 2023

Standards Testing Laboratories to maintain fabricated machine division, Texas operations

Datwyler cuts resource consumption, eyes CO2 neutrality

Datwyler announces leadership succession plan

Added: 6 Oct 2023

Volker Cwielong to succeed Dirk Lambrecht as CEO of Swiss rubber products group in April 2024

Update: Synthetic rubber pricing data

Added: 6 Oct 2023

Weekly data compiled by ChemAnalyst based on selected commodity trading activity in Europe

Sumitomo Rubber turning off domestic gas hose business

Added: 6 Oct 2023

Group currently manufactures rubber hoses and related products at plant in Kakogawa, Hyogo prefectu…

Kemya, Continental Carbon start Saudi carbon black plant

ERJ: News stories of the week

Added: 6 Oct 2023

Most widely read news reports posted on the European Rubber Journal website over the last seven days

SRI earnings up despite lower sales

Sumitomo Rubber investing €80m in South Africa tire factory

Added: 5 Oct 2023

Project at Ladysmith site to increase output, modernise production and support local jobs...

Giti breaks ground on ‘next-gen’ tire plant in China

Added: 5 Oct 2023

New plant in Changfeng to be “strategically situated” to cater to key OEM demands

European Chemical Agency sees “low level of concern” for recycled rubber

EC adopts controversial ban on rubber infill in synthetic pitches

Added: 5 Oct 2023

Applies after eight years “to give pitch owners and managers the time to switch to alternatives...”…

Moulding machinery major Desma broadens management team

Added: 5 Oct 2023

German-based rubber equipment maker appoints new MD for sales & service

Tosoh building crude MDI splitter plant in Vietnam

Added: 5 Oct 2023

Products to be used in various applications, including elastic textiles used in sportswear