Yokohama Rubber in a joint research project with the Tribology Laboratory headed by Associate Professor Iwai of the College of Science and Engineering at Kanazawa University, has developed an evaluation technology that visualises rubber’s frictional state of contact on an…
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Apollo Vredestein to supply OE tyres for VW Touareg
Apollo Vredestein has received another endorsement with the recent decision by German car maker Volkswagen to start fitting the Volkswagen Touareg with two 18 inch premium products from Vredestein. Both the Quatrac 5 (all-season tyre) and the Ultrac Satin (summer…
Yokohama Tire opens tech centre in the US
Japanese firm Yokohama Tire Corp. (YTC) has officially opened its new tyre R&D facility – the Yokohama Development Centre America (YDCA) – in Cornelius, North Carolina. The 25,000-sq-ft building in Mecklenburg County, replaces the temporary R&D office Yokohama had utilised…
Hexpol acquires majority share in Italian compounder
Swedish polymers firm Hexpol has acquired 80% shares in Mesgo Group from the existing main owner Francesco Caldara and co-owners for EUR168 million. Mesgo is an industry leader in high performance elastomers as fluorocarbons and silicone. In addition, Mesgo also…
Cabot acquires Chinese carbon black maker; to spend US$50 mn on facility upgrade
Speciality chemicals company Cabot has acquired NSCC Carbon (Jiangsu) Co. from Nippon Steel Carbon Co., a subsidiary of Nippon Steel Chemical & Material Co. The carbon black manufacturing facility in Pizhou, Jiangsu Province, China, with a capacity of 50,000 tonnes/year,…
Hankook Tyre partners to supply tyres for the latest Nissan Altima
The 2019 Nissan Altima will sport South Korean company Hankook’s Kinergy GT tyre [pattern H436], an all-season tyre with handling capabilities…
China’s General Science opts for Thailand for tyre plant
Chinese tyre maker Jiangsu General Science Technology Co. Ltd. is looking elsewhere for a plant in Southeast Asia and has decided to locate its planned US$300 million tyre plant in Thailand instead of Cambodia. The reason the firm said was that…
Kumho enters Pakistan’s market through tie up with Century
Under a deal touted as the first of its kind in the country, South Korea’s second largest tyre maker Kumho Tire Co has signed a ten-year technology transfer agreement with Pakistan’s Century Engineering, which is essentially involved in producing car…
SNCP distances itself from Iran/France cooperation – updated
France’s association for rubber and polymers Syndicat National du Caoutchouc et des Polymères or SNCP in short has issued a statement to say it is “in no way associated with this cooperation agreement” signed between French rubber & plastics industry…
Chinese firm Sailun to become Cooper Tire’s jv partner
US tyre company Cooper Tire & Rubber Company’s partner in the China-based Qingdao Ge Rui Da Rubber Co. (GRT) truck and bus radial (TBR) tyre production joint venture will change to Sailun Jinyu Group Co. The latter firm has signed…