Russia’s PJSC Tatneft has signed a license and engineering agreement with Italian chemical firm Versalis relating to technologies for the production of nitrile butadiene rubber (NBR) and carboxylate styrene butadiene rubber latexes (XSBR). This is the next step in Tatneft’s development of its petrochemical…
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Synthos receives EC approval to acquire Trinseo’s rubber business
Polish polymers maker Synthos has gotten the green light from the European Commission to finalise the US$491 million acquisition of US-based Trinseo’s rubber business. In May 2021 Synthos signed an agreement with Trinseo on purchasing its synthetic rubbers production plants…
Cabot to acquire Tokai Carbon’s Chinese plant for US$9 mn
US carbon black supplier Cabot Corporation says it has entered a definitive agreement to acquire Tokai Carbon (Tianjin) Co. from Tokai Carbon Group for US$9 million, subject to customary closing adjustments. The carbon black manufacturing facility was commissioned in 2006 and is located in close proximity to…
Global NR economy may suffer deficit by 2023 if demand remains low-ANRPC
It’s bad to have too much of a good thing. Surplus production capacity as a result of unusual expansion of mature tree area over the last five years (starting in 2016) has become a burden for the natural rubber economy.…
Falken opens new tyre warehouse in Germany
Falken Tyre Europe has opened a new 40,000 sq-m logistics centre in Gengenbach, Germany. Falken is the largest customer of the facility run by logistics partner FIEGE, which can store 450,000 tyres. Strategically located near the German-French border to serve…
Continental to acquire Trelleborg’s printing solutions business
German technology firm Continental has signed an agreement to acquire Trelleborg’s printing solutions business, headquartered in Lodi Vecchio, Italy. Thereby, the technology company says it complements its surface solutions and printing technology portfolio in order to enhance its presence with…
Pyrum on track with construction of ELT expansion in Germany
End-of-life tyre (ELT) recycler Pyrum Innovations has started the expansion of the production capacity of its pyrolysis plant at its headquarters in Dillingen, Germany. To date, the plant consists of one production line, which has been operating on an industrial…
Lion Elastomers to enter NBR business
US firm Lion Elastomers will be expanding the emulsion-based facility in Port Neches, Texas, US, to manufacture NBR rubber. This new undertaking will position the company to support the domestic demand and provide security of supply for nitrile rubber. Major…
Orion to expand carbon black output in Louisiana
Carbon black supplier Orion Engineered Carbons says that next year the company will invest to convert a reactor line at its plant in Ivanhoe, Louisiana, US, from manufacturing soft carbon black to producing hard carbon black, commonly used in tyre treads.…
Bridgestone pulling out from conveyor belt business
Japanese tyre maker Bridgestone Corporation has withdrawn from the conveyor belt business. It said that it plans to reduce its production and sales volume gradually to minimise the impact to the operations of its customers and suppliers, and will withdraw…