Chinese consumers bid for prompt rubber shipments at below $2 a kg this week, but some sellers held back their cargoes because of the low prices and difficulties in getting raw material, dealers said on Wednesday. The dry season, which…
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India’s 2013/14 rubber production fell
India’s natural rubber imports jumped 49.3 percent to a record 324,467 tonnes in the year ended March 31 from a year earlier as excessive monsoon rains hurt production, the state-run Rubber Board said. The country’s production fell 7.6 percent to…
Styron to convert its Ni-BR plant to increase tyre production
Styron, the global materials company and manufacturer of plastics, latex and rubber, today announced that it will convert its Nickel Butadiene Rubber (Ni-BR) production train in Schkopau, Germany, to Neodymium Butadiene Rubber (Nd-BR). Coupled with Styron’s existing leading technology in…
Rubber tappers suffered from revolt
Forty years have rolled since the first revolt by rubber tappers and smallholders but the issue of low rubber price still niggles their lives today. This time though the blow was harder as even the price sugar per kilogram superceded…
Doublestar introduces new truck tyres
Doublestar Tire Corp. recently added four SmartWay verified truck tyres, covering all three wheel positions, to its line offerings and is planning to launch two more, the company said. In addition, two other models — an all-position tyre and a…
US tyre makers invested billions for expansion projects
Looking strictly at the rising import penetration of passenger and light truck tyres in the US replacement business, it might be easy to get the impression that tyre manufacturing in the US is a dying industry. But that impression couldn’t…
ContiTech aims for 5% higher sales for 2014
For 2013, German components supplier ContiTech, which is owned by the Continental Corporation, increased its sales by around 5%, to EUR3.9 billion. Heinz-Gerhard Wente, Head of the Continental ContiTech division and Chairman of the Executive Board of ContiTech, says that…
Swell on rubber output, price war expected
After years of massive expansion, tearing up forests and swallowing land in neighboring countries to create rubber plantations, Vietnam is reaping what it sowed: a swelling of output that has made it the third-largest rubber producer. Later this year rubber…
Sailun unveils two new tyres
Sailun Tire Corp. showcased two tyres from its Atrezzo and Terramax lines at a ride-and-drive event for dealers last week. The latest Sailun Tire Challenge was held at the Auto Club Raceway in Pomona, Calif. Organized by National Tire Warehouse…
Goodyear launches biggest tyre
A question that Goodyear is frequently asked is ‘what is the biggest tyre you make?’ The answer is the RM-4A+ Off The Road tyre in size 59/80R63, which is as tall as a large elephant and of a similar weight…