Green Distillation Technologies (GDT), an Australian tyre recycling company, has secured US backing for its world-first tyre recycling technology that produces “high-value oil, carbon and steel from end-of-life (EOL) tyres, in demand by world markets at promising market prices.” GDT’s…
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Bridgestone “temporarily shuts down” 11 plants in Japan due to COVID-19
Japan-based tyre and rubber company Bridgestone will suspend operations at 11 Japanese plants across select prefectures in late April and early May, in response to the unstable market conditions and poor demand amid the quickly spreading COVID-19 outbreak. According to…
Saipem to build US$150 mn PBR plant in Egypt
Italian petchem company Saipem, leading a consortium with Egypt-based Petrojet, has been awarded a contract by Egyptian Ethylene & Derivatives Co. (Ethydco) for the first polybutadiene-producing facility in Egypt, with an expected production capacity of 36,000 tonnes/year. Saipem and Petrojet…
Cambodian rubber exports decline sharply after strict border security
Tightened measures at border checkpoints along the Cambodian border with Vietnam, to prevent the spread of COVID-19, has caused rubber exports to plummet and “will continue to affect rubber exports as long as restrictions remain in place,” said local exporter…
Sibur to produce NBR latex in Siberia for gloves
By the end of 2020, Russian petchem company Sibur’s Krasnoyarsk site plans to start commercial production of synthetic nitrile butadiene rubber (NBR) latex with a capacity of 3,500 tonnes/year. The project aims to develop a feedstock base for import substitution of technical…
Toyoda Gosei invests in IoT services provider to push e-Rubber
Japan’s Toyoda Gosei Co., Ltd. has invested in Uhuru Corp., a venture business that provides services and solutions using huge amounts of data in cloud computing and edge devices. “Venture into innovation and new mobility” is one of the key…
Kal Tire to start OTR tyre processing plant in Chilean mining port city
Mining tyre specialist Kal Tire Chile (Kal Tire) will soon be ready to commence July 2020 operations at its new OTR tyre processing plant in La Negra Industrial Estate in northern Chile’s Atacama Desert, now that phase one construction work…
Giti Tire to keep US tyre plant idled until early May
Giti Tire (USA) Ltd. is extending the closure of its tyre plant in Richburg, South Carolina, until May 4 “to adjust for market conditions impacted by COVID-19.” The move will affect roughly 800 workers at the3-year-old passenger and light truck…
Continental to help with COVID-19 response in Italy by reopening hose line
The Continental Corporation (Continental) will be using a manufacturing site in Daverio, in the northern Italian region of Lombardy, to produce air/medical gas hoses crucially needed by the health care sector due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Continental had previously “ramped-down”…
Hankook Tire now using machine-based technology for tyre inspections
Hankook Tire & Technology Co. Ltd. (Hankook) has begun automating the final-stage inspection process for its tyres – the South Korean-based company is now using artificial intelligence (AI) and digital sensor technology to carry out internal inspection with a type…