Ford Motor’s San Francisco-based micromobility unit Spin has partnered exclusively with Drover AI, a company specialising in artificial intelligence-based internet of things solutions for last-mile transportation. Spin operates with electric scooters in cities and universities in the US and Europe. The…
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Apollo Tyres launches e-commerce portal
Indian tyre manufacturer Apollo Tyres Ltd. (Apollo Tyres) has launched an e-commerce portal/e-shop (https://shop.apollotyres.com) to better serve customers in the passenger car and two-wheeler tyre segment. Through a “buy online, fit offline” model, the portal will allow perusal and purchase…
Enviro and Michelin tie up for strategic partnership
Tyre recycler Scandinavian Enviro Systems and French global tyre manufacturer Michelin have agreed on the principle terms for establishing a first jointly owned recycling plant and a license agreement regulating the terms of use for Enviro’s recycling technology as well as subsequent…
China to impose anti-dumping duties on rubber products from the US
The Ministry of Commerce, China, has announced that it will impose anti-dumping duties on rubber products from the US, as well as South Korea and the European Union (EU) starting December 20. China will slap a tariff of 222% on…
Toyo Tire constructs new tyre plant in Serbia
Japanese Toyo Tire Corporation – through its manufacturing subsidiary Toyo Tire Serbia-Belgrade – has commenced the construction of a US$465 million passenger vehicle tyre plant in Indjija City, the Republic of Serbia. The 300,000sqm plant will have a capacity of…
Country Focus: Indonesia’s rubber sustainability at a crossroads
Deforestation in Indonesia, the world’s second largest natural rubber producer, is an issue to reckon with. According to Greenpeace, the country has one of the highest rates of deforestation globally, with over 74 million ha cleared for agriculture, as well…
Ceat to supply SecuraDrive tyres for Nissan Magnite SUV
Anticipating growth in the compact SUV market in India, Ceat Tyres has begun a new partnership with Nissan Motors as OE tyre supplier for the latter’s subcompact SUV – the Nissan Magnite. According to Ceat, it will provide its SecuraDrive…
Mesnac “liquid gold” rubber mixing plant to come on stream by 2023
Mesnac Co., Ltd. (Mesnac), a Chinese rubber and machinery manufacturing group, announced its rubber wet-mixing production plant in Qingdao is set for 2023 commissioning; the plant is to produce nearly 300,00 metric tonnes of chemically mixed compounds (EVEC) to support…
Toyoda Gosei’s new technology for tougher EPDM
Japanese chemical firm Toyoda Gosei Co., Ltd. and the Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, the University of Tokyo, have developed material crosslinking technology that enhances the toughness of synthetic rubber. This new technology enhances the toughness of the synthetic rubber…
Steady OE, replacement market sales for Bridgestone India
Bridgestone India, part of leading rubber and tyre company Bridgestone Corp., has seen remarkable improvement and demand in the original equipment (OE) segment and the replacement market, which has settled to those before the COVID-19 pandemic. Rajarshi Moitra, Executive Officer…