BRIDGESTONE Group has announced that its Bridgestone-brand Ecopia EP150 tyres will be original equipment (OE) on the all-new 2014 Chevy Spark Electric Vehicle (EV)..
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Continental Tire’s Sumter plant to kick off in 2014
CONTINENTAL Tire the Americas’s 1 million sq ft plant in a 23-acre site in Sumter will start production by the beginning of next year, after a year and a half since the ground breaking of the site. A media tour…
Toyo opens Malaysia factory, to supply tyres to Saudi
TOYO Tire & Rubber Company has recently opened its new tyre factory in Malaysia. The new facility will also utilise Toyo Tires’s proprietary tyre production system, A.T.O.M., and is expected to produce about 2.5 million tyres annually by end of…
Baro to distribute European tyres in East Africa, seeks distributors
GERMAN wholesaler Baro Ltd, a leading distributor of products from Russia, Ukraine and other former CIS countries, with brands including TyReX, Voltyre, Dneproshina, Rosava, Kama, Omskshina and Cordiant, plans to invite new distribution partners for its European manufactured ranges of…
IMF’s lower global rubber outlook hits rubber demand
ACCORDING to a report from Bloomberg, rubber retreated from a one-week high after the International Monetary Fund (IMF) cuts its global growth outlook for this year and next, raising concern that demand for rubber used in tyres may weaken. The…
Top buying countries’ weak economy curbs rubber exports from Indonesia
INDONESIA’s rubber exports, as well as selling price to China, the US and Japan have decreased, however the three countries remain its top buyers of rubber, specifically from North Samatra, according to the Secretary of the North Sumatra branch of…
Ansell delivers new addition to TNT gloves line
ANSELL launches its new gloves offering in the Touch N Tuff (TNT) product line – the Touch N Tuff 73-500 sterile sensitive polychloroprene gloves and Touch N Tuff 73-300 clean sensitive polychloroprene gloves for the life sciences industry, and the…
SafeRubber team develops safer accelerator for curing polychloprene
According to Pera Technology, carcinogenic and mutagenic ethylene thiourea (ETU) is inherently toxic and a statutory ban on its use is expected in the near future.
NuSil introduces latest moderate thermal conductive silicone elastomer
NUSIL Technology LLC, the global leader in silicone materials for the medical implants, aerospace, electronics and engineering markets, introduces R-2165, the newest robust silicone solution for the protection of electronic components and systems such as sensors, relays, and connectors. According…
Dow Elastomers to realise world-scale EPDM facility plan in Louisiana
DOW Elastomers, a business unit of the Dow Chemical Company, will soon break ground on its planned world-scale NORDEL EPDM (ethylene propylene-diene terpolymer) facility in Plaquemine, Louisiana in US. It aims to utilise the company’s newest proprietary catalyst technology to…