India’s Birla Carbon has announced expansions in multiple regions to support customers in the growing carbon black market. It will undertake significant debottlenecking at its factories in Egypt and Italy before the end of Q3 2018; restart a production line in…
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Kuraray, PTT, and Sumitomo launch jv company in Thailand
Japanese chemical maker Kuraray Co, Thailand-based PTT Global Chemical Public Company and compatriot Japanese chemical company Sumitomo Corporation recently held an opening ceremony for a joint venture company, Kuraray GC Advanced Materials Co, set up to operate in Thailand. Kuraray…
Kumho to up capacity of butadiene latex in South Korea
South Korea’s Kumho Petrochemical says that it has started the expansion for acrylonitrile butadiene latex (NB latex) at its facility in Ulsan, South Korea, from 400,000 tonnes to 550,000 tonnes/year. With this expansion, Kumho says it will further consolidate its…
Sumitomo/Dunlop Tech open technical centre in Germany
Sumitomo Rubber Europe and Dunlop Tech have officially opened a technical centre, after a year of construction. The 30,000 sq m building in Hanau-Steinheim, Germany, houses facilities for tyre development and testing, production of liquid latex and tyre pressure monitoring system design.…
AB completes expansion of R&D site
US-based speciality silicone maker AB Specialty Silicones says it has completed a significant renovation and expansion of its R&D and QA location tripling the area. Additional laboratory facilities and equipment have increased technical capabilities for product analysis and performance matching…
China imposes anti-dumping measures on NR from Japan and South Korea
China’s Ministry of Commerce has imposed temporary anti-dumping measures on nitrile rubber imported from South Korea and Japan from 16th July. The Ministry says it will collect deposits ranging between 12 and 37.3% on imports of the rubber from South…
US to impose fines on imports of rubber bands from China
The US Commerce Department says that rubber bands imported from China will be subject to hefty state subsidies. Meanwhile, a similar investigation into the same products from Thailand resulted in a leaner fine. Imports of rubber bands from China were…
Michelin buying Camso for US$1.4 bn; to bolster speciality business
French tyre maker Michelin says it is buying Canadian firm Camso for US$1.45 billion to generate US$55 million of cost savings and increased sales by 2021. Camso, which averages net sales of US$1 billion, designs and manufactures off-the-road (OTR) material…
Toyoda sets up technical operations in India
Japanese firm Toyoda Gosei Co., Ltd. has established an office in Guragaon, India, to speed up business by locating engineering and sales operations closer to the head office of its main customer, Maruti Suzuki India Ltd. These operations were previously…
Sempertrans launches facility in the US
Sempertrans, which is part of the Austrian rubber/plastic company Semperit, recently celebrated the official opening of its new Atlanta location together with distributors and end-customers. While the Sempertrans USA team moved into the new location in Georgia in December 2017,…