Materials firm Trinseo has inaugurated a new facility built on its existing manufacturing site in Hsinchu, Taiwan; it will allow Trinseo to produce custom-engineered thermoplastic urethanes (TPU), thermoplastic elastomers (TPE) and bio-plastics for use in the automotive, consumer electronics, footwear…
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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…
Apollo Tyres offers new cross-ply lug tyre for commercial vehicles
Tyre manufacturer Apollo Tyres Ltd. has launched a new, advanced cross-ply lug tyre, the XT-100HD for the replacement market in India. Based on popular demand from its customers and business partners, the XT-100HD offers both exceptional load-carrying capacity and mileage,…
India may impose anti-dumping duty on tyre imports from Thailand
The Directorate General of Trade Remedies (DGTR), upon careful evaluation of the domestic tyre market, has suggested imposing anti-dumping duty of US$337.80-US$527.08 per metric tonne on new pneumatic radial tyre imports from Thailand. At the behest of India’s Finance Ministry,…
Turnspire Capital completes acquisition of Goodyear Air Springs
US private equity firm Turnspire Capital Partners has completed the acquisition of the Goodyear air springs business from EnPro Industries. Goodyear Air Springs is the first acquisition of Infinity Engineered Products, a new platform formed by Turnspire. Headquartered in Ohio,…
Nynas successfully exits reorganisation
The District Court of Södertörn, Sweden has decided that Swedish naphthenic oil company Nynas’s company reorganisation is now complete, following a creditors meeting where the previously submitted composition proposal was accepted. “I am happy to announce this very important step for Nynas and that…
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…
Bridgestone Alenza Sport tyres to feature on select 2021 Nissan Rogue models
Bridgestone’s fuel efficient Alenza Sport A/S tyre has been selected as original equipment (OE) for select models of the 2021 Nissan Rogue, the first vehicle in the US and Canada to feature tyres with Bridgestone’s revolutionary Enliten Technology, according to…
Apollo Tyres to introduce Vredestein brand in India
Indian tyre manufacturer Apollo Tyres Ltd. (Apollo) will reintroduce high-end tyres of its European subsidiary tyre brand – Apollo Tyres-Vredestein – in India by 2021. Apollo had previously introduced the Vredestein tyre brand for a trial run in the Indian…
Cranfield University, Meditech create sustainable, biodegradable NR latex gloves
Researchers from Cranfield University, UK, and Malaysian company Meditech Gloves, have developed biodegradable natural rubber (NR) gloves that spell the ideal future raw material for sustainable manufacturing. The special formulation of natural latex that makes the gloves is also free…