Key benchmark indices retained positive zone in afternoon trade. The barometer index, the S&P BSE Sensex, was up 57.07 points or 0.28%, up close to 120 points from the day’s low and off about 10 points from the day’s high.…
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India Rubber
The All India Rubber Industries Association (AIRIA) was established in 1945 with the purpose of representing the rubber sector in ...
Country Focus: An alliance that keeps Asia’s “white gold” shining
Despite challenges in the global market and supply chain, Asia’s primary rubber producers are successfully achieving their growth targets, with ...
Sustainability: Southeast Asia’s rubber sector rooting for sustainability
Promising solutions are emerging in the form of sustainable rubber practices, aimed at curbing deforestation and substantially reducing the environmental ...
Rubber industry in the digital age: how technology can save forests, boost business
Emerging policies on ethical material sourcing, such as the EU Deforestation-free Regulation (EUDR)’s zero-deforestation rule, underscore ecosystem preservation and market ...
Gloves sector holding up through the headwind
Malaysia’s glove makers are benefiting from streamlining of operations, new investments, and net-zero collaborations to mitigate the impact of low ...
Medical technology market shapes up with silicones
Global and Asian markets for silicones in the healthcare and medical industries have grown in tandem with the advancement of ...
Falken tyres new energy efficient tyre
Tyre engineers in Japan have for the first time, employed a super computer normally used for climate simulation, together with the SPring-8 Materials Research Centre and its synchrotron radiation facility, to create a new energy-efficient tyre. These powerful simulation tools,…
Recovery in rubber industry’s growth is imminent: Sheela Thomas
Current low rubber prices and declining demand for its products is a matter of concern but growth of rubber industry has always been cyclical and recovery is “imminent”, Rubber Board Chairman Sheela Thomas said today. “Every industry passes through perils…
British racing ‘will suffer’ if Dunlop tyre factory closes
The £9 billion motorsport industry will be hit hard if Goodyear Dunlop presses ahead with plans to close its Birmingham tyre factory, manufacturers and politicians have warned. Proposals to shift production of high performance tyres from the Dunlop Motorsport factory…
Yokohama invests Rs 300 crore in first Indian plant
Yokohama opened its first tyre manufacturing unit in India at Bahadurgarh in Haryana with an investment of over Rs 300 crore. The first phase of production is expected to start in the second half of 2014 with a maximum production…
WTB adds Nano gravel tyre
WTB has a new, gravel-specific tyre, the Nano 40c, which boasts a plump 40mm casing, a rounded profile and a center-line tread pattern designed for riding and racing road bikes on gravel and dirt roads. WTB debuted the tire at…
Absence of China in global market caused fall in rubber price
The continuing slowdown in the European and the US economies apart, Chinese withdrawal from the global market before the end of December had fuelled the current fall in natural rubber price, said Rubber Board chairman Sheela Thomas here on Wednesday.…
Thailand’s 2014 rubber output to fall on politics, prices
Natural rubber production in Thailand is likely to drop in 2014 due to political upheaval and as a sharp fall in prices prompts farmers to curtail tapping, a senior official at the Association of Natural Rubber Producing Countries (ANRPC) told…
Yokohama opens tyre testing center in Sweden
Yokohama’s European subsidiary officially opened a winter tyre development and testing center in Nattberg, Sweden, roughly 50 miles from the Arctic Circle. This is the most recent development in the expanding cooperation between Yokohama and Nordic tyre specialists Arctic Falls,…
Silverfish adds Onza tyres to stable
Silverfish UK has announced the addition of Swiss based tyre manufacturer Onza to its portfolio of brands. Onza is a name which will have any mountain biker with a few decades of service under their belts regaling stories of white…