A European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) suggestion could potentially place a ban on the use of rubber granules for infill materials in artificial turf as the granular infill materials from end-of-life tyres (ELT) or other synthetic elastomers used in artificial turf…
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DGFT India imposes curbs on import of pneumatic tyres used in motor cars, busses, etc
India will impose restrictions on the import of certain pneumatic tyres such as those used in motorised station wagons, racing cars, scooters, multi-cellular polyurethane tubeless tyres, and bicycles, in an attempt to promote domestic manufacturing. It will also placate domestic…
Continental mulls additional cost-cutting measures due to COVID-19
German corporation Continental A. G. (Continental) is currently assessing potential cost-cutting measures, including forced layoffs, in response to the growing market deterioration following theCOVID-19 pandemic. Continental said that it was taking a series of new cost-cutting measures this year in…
Maxxis India resumes partial tyre production at Gujarat plant
Maxxis India, a subsidiary of Taiwan’s Cheng Shin Rubber Ind.Co.Ltd., will resume partial manufacturing operations at its Sanand tyre plant in Gujarat, along the west coast of India. Maxxis India has taken into consideration of the safety guidelines announced bythe…
Rubber Market Analyses: Post-pandemic recovery for the Asian rubber market
The Covid-19 pandemic has triggered declines in rubber prices and overall gloomy sentiments in the rubber sector. While recouping of losses is in sight, it will be an uphill climb, says Angelica Buan in this article. Ruthless effect on rubber…
Spanish Cementos Cosmos allowed to use waste tyres as alternative fuel
Cement company Cementos Cosmos will be able to use waste tyres as alternative fuel source (tyre-derived fuel; TDF) in its production process following the granting of an Integrated Environmental Authorisation. The move will allow Cementos Cosmos’ Toral de los Vados…
Giti Tire rolls out Adventuro HT all-season highway tyre for SUVs/pickup trucks
Well-known tyre maker Giti Tires USA Ltd. (Giti) has debuted a new all-season highway tyre, specifically for the North American SUV and pickup truck market, in its GT Radial brand – the Adventuro HT. According to Giti, features of the…
Yokohama India resumes production at first India manufacturing plant
Tyre manufacturing company Yokohama India Pvt. Ltd., a subsidiary of Yokohama Rubber Co. Ltd., is resuming operations at its US$39.7 million Bahadurgarh plant in Haryana, northern India. The plant will resume production based on government directives and guidelines issued due…
Bridgestone Indonesia, Souls4Soles Asia start sustainable project to turn recycled tyres into shoes
In celebration of World Environment Day on June 5, global nonprofit organisation Soles4Souls Asia and Bridgestone Indonesia, a part of tyre and rubber corporation Bridgestone, announced an exciting new project to turn recycled tyres into shoes for people in need…
NR outlook in 2020 revised down by ANRPC, for fourth time
The Association of Natural Rubber Producing Countries (ANRPC) has once again revised its forecasts for the natural rubber (NR) industry – ANRPC now has scaled down its estimates for NR production by another 303,000 metric tonnes, expecting the total figure…