As part of its global restructuring plan, US-based Maine Industrial Tire has sold its China-based pneumatic tyre manufacturing assets to Trelleborg Wheel Systems. Maine Tire will continue to operate and retain ownership over the solid tyre portion of the Hebei…
ITALIAN technology and engineering company FasTech has licensed its second proprietary technology to manufacture its Nd-PBR to a leading petrochemical operator in East Asia. The licence agreement includes engineering and other technical services. The first one was to a Middle…
Taiwan-based Formosa Plastics will invest US$300 million to set up a synthetic rubber plant in Ningbo, Zhejiang province. Construction of the plant will begin this year with production to start in two years. Initially the plant will produce 50,000 tonnes/year…
China-based WestMoonint has added a crosslink powdered acrylonitrile butadiene rubber (NBR) products line for automotive brake making, the cable and wire industry and seal applications. The company will also launch other types of nitrile rubber soon, such as cold/hot and…
Sabic and ExxonMobil Chemical have selected Al-Jubail, Saudi Arabia, as the location of a new joint venture plant that will produce 400 kilotonnes/year of EPDM/TPE, TPO, butyl rubber, SBR/PBR and carbon black to serve markets in Asia and the Middle…
LAKELAND, Fla.—Worries about allergic reactions to latex balloons have surfaced at Lakeland Regional Medical Center, according to a story on the website of the Lakeland (Fla.) Ledger newspaper.
KATY, Texas—A local man is part of a team that recently received a U.S. patent for a new kind of latex that can be used in underwater drilling for natural gas, a story in a Houston Chronicle website said.
BARRINGTON, Ill. – Latex balloon maker CTI Industries Corp.’s Flexo International S.A. de C.V. subsidiary has added and now is operating latex balloon production equipment at its factory in Guadalajara, Mexico. The completion of the installation project will boost the…
TOKYO — Bridgestone Corp. has restarted production at at least one of its plans in Japan affected by the March 11 earthquake after verifying the facility´s safety and accounting for the employees’ welfare. The company said it continues to work…
International Rubber Prices
(as of 15, May 2018)
Michelin Tweel Technologies has released a new 26-inch airless radial tyre designed for utility vehicles (UTV) use. The Michelin X Tweel UTV...
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According to a new report by Grand View Research, Inc, the global automotive aftermarket size is expected to reach US$486.36...
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