Sumitomo Rubber Industries will increase its production capacity by 9% at its tire plant in Rayong Province, Thailand. The Rayong site is one of the largest tyre production facilities in the world. The Japanese tyre maker will raise capacity. Capacity…
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Zeon Corporation sets up in India
Zeon Corporation established Zeon India Private Limited in Gurgaon, in the Indian state of Haryana. The new company will begin operations on October 1. Hiroshi Mihara will serve as the Zeon India’s Managing Director Zeon India Private Limited was established…
Nokian Tyres cuts 122 employees
Negotiations concerning workers and staff in car tyre production and administration at Nokian Tyres’ Finnish factory ended last September 28. The company decided that adjustments to production capacity utilization as well as cost savings will be achieved by reducing 122…
Toyo Tire names new chairman and president
Toyo Tire & Rubber Co. names its new president and chairman last September 28. Senior Corporate Officer Takashi Shimizu will replace Takuji Yamamoto as president. Shimizu held other management positions in the company’s tire division. He is currently the company’s…
Scrap tyres can be turned into supercapacitors
A team from the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Drexel University found a way to use scrap tyres to make supercapacitors. Supercapacitors are used in cars, buses and forklifts that require rapid charge and discharge cycles with…
Omya subisidaries distribute Lion Elastomers’ rubber
Lion Elastomers announced a that subsidiaries of Omya, Inc. subsidiaries will now distribute Lion Elastomers’ styrene-butadiene rubber (SBR) products in the United States, Canada and Europe. Lion Elastomers is a manufacturer of styrene butadiene rubber (SBR) and EPDM rubber, serving…
Falken Tires becomes Major League Baseball’s official tyre
Falken Tires and Major League Baseball (MLB) signed a multi-year integrated marketing agreement, making Falken Tires as the Official Tire of Major League Baseball. Beginning in the 2016 MLB season, Falken and MLB will do multiple promotional opportunities including virtual…
Kumho tops Tire Rack’s latest test
Independent tyre tester Tire Rack evaluated three ultra high performance all-season tyres (UHPAS) claiming a level of “newness.” These were the all-new Fuzion UHP Sport A/S as well as the redesigned Sumitomo HTR A/S P02 and Kumho Ecsta 4X…
Korean firm proposes to install rubber dams in Pakistan
Korean company Yooil engineering offered to invest US$100 million to build rubber dams in Pakistan to solve it water and power crisis. The company claims that the dams will be finished in five months—a tenth of the time it takes…
India’s Rubber Board backs 100% foreign investment
The Rubber Board supports a proposal allowing 100% foreign direct investment (FDI) in the rubber plantation sector. A Jayathilak, Rubber Board Chairman said that foreign investment is important to make the country self-sufficient in natural rubber. The Department of Industrial…