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Aeolus estimates annual net loss of up to €62m

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 expects 'robust' long-term outlook for tire industry

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 …

Versalis dismisses reports of deal in Iran

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…

Feature  – JK Tyre maps out road to automation

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…

World NR production falls 5.2% in first quarter of 2019

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

Sibur and BASF extend polymer additives deal

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

Trelleborg shifting shape following acquisitions, divestments

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…

Tire recycler Pyrum raises €10m with new share issue

Added: 24 Oct 2024

Proceeds to be used for construction of second ELT pyrolysis site in Germany, other JV project

Linglong still mulling locations for third overseas plant

Added: 23 Oct 2024

Chinese tire maker has Mexico, Brazil, Morocco in the frame but “nothing is fixed yet...”

Top Glove resumes expansion projects as order flow improves

Added: 23 Oct 2024

Group remains “cautiously optimistic” amid volatile business environment affected by geopolitical f…

New IRCo leader foresees natural rubber shortage

IRSG urged to reconvene World Rubber Summit 2024

Added: 23 Oct 2024

Common Fund for Commodities highlights importance of event “postponed at the very last minute due t…

VMI links Pirelli supplier award to UNIXX programme

Added: 23 Oct 2024

System enables enhanced process control: lowering weight of tire compounds and waste levels...

Technology: Freudenberg unveils new rotary seal for process industry

Freudenberg NOK moving seals production unit in India to new plant

Added: 23 Oct 2024

Manufacturer relocating automotive seals production from Basma factory to site in the same state

UK chemicals makers say growth has ‘almost disappeared’

Added: 23 Oct 2024

CIA reports halt to recovery against backdrop of rising costs, sluggish demand and Chinese competit…

Michelin starts expansion project at tire plant in India

Added: 22 Oct 2024

Includes new passenger car tire facility employing Industry 5.0 principles, digitalisation technolo…