VMI, a Netherland-based producer of tyre manufacturing machinery, opens a new service centre in Chon Buri Province, Thailand. The Thailand facility is the company’s ninth service centre. The service center employs engineers to provide support to VMI customers; and is…
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European JV to set up ELT plant in Danish port
The prospective joint venture (jv) Elysium Nordic Apof Denmark’s WindSpace A/Sand Sweden’s Enviro has signed a lease agreement with Associated Danish Ports (ADP) for a site in Nyborgharbour on Funen, Denmark for material recovery of end-of-life tyres (ELT). The lease…
New partnership seeks to establish first sustainable NR supply in the US
American technology company United American Health Corporation (UAHC) has established a wholly-owned subsidiary American Sustainable Rubber Company (ASR), an indoor agriculture technology company focused on creating a domestic solution to natural rubber (NR) production. The company hopes to utilise proprietary…
Michelin, Hyundai tie up for next gen tyres
French tyre maker Michelin and South Korean car maker Hyundai Motors signed an agreement to develop next generation tyres for electric and luxury vehicles…
Kerala’s Rubber Industrial Park to aid farmers vs rubber price “crisis”
A first-of-its-kind Industrial park for rubber products manufacturer will be set up in Kerala, India. During the presentation of 2019-2020 state budget, Finance Minister Thomas Isaac announced that the Kerala Government plans to set up an integrated park for rubber…
Canada’s tyre distributor Giant acquired by Trelleborg
The second largest industrial tyre dealer in the Montreal area has been acquired by Trelleborg, a global engineering company that focused on polymer technology. Through Trelleborg Wheel Systems, an agreement of acquisition is sealed with PNEU ICM Inc, a specialized…
NR policies take toll on India’s largest rubber producer
Harrisons Malayalam (HML), India’s largest producer of rubber and other agricultural crops faces profit loss as restrictions on felling old rubber trees and lack of replanting measures continue. A loss of over Rs 100 crores over 13 lakh MT of…
Marangoni scores majority stakes in South African tread company
Italy headquartered retread solutions expert, Marangoni Group has acquired the majority shareholding in the South African tread maker Leader Rubber Company SA (Pty) Ltd. The partnership between Leader Rubber and Marangoni has been ongoing for more than ten years and…
Gevo innovates renewable isoprene for producing rubber
US-based renewable fuels and chemicals manufacturer Gevo Inc has developed a proprietary, breakthrough catalytic process that transforms low-cost commercially available, or even waste by-product, renewable alcohols into renewable isoprene that would be expected to compete head-to-head on price with natural…
Haldor Topsoe to provide technology for Nizhnekams’s isoprene rubber output
Denmark-based catalysis firm Haldor Topsoe has tied up with Russia’s PJSC Nizhnekamskneftekhim for license and engineering services for a new methanol unit with a capacity of 500,000 tonnes/year. Nizhnekamskneftekhim is building its new methanol production plant in Kazan, Tatarstan, in…