Tyre maker Bridgestone has announced its first tyre manufacturing site to be verified as carbon neutral (scopes 1 and 2). The plant at Chakan in Pune, India, was audited in May and June 2023, and was subsequently verified according to…
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Risorce raises EUR12 mn for tyre recycling facility in Belgium
Belgian start-up Risorce has successfully raised EUR12.5 million for the construction of a facility to recycle used tyres. Unlike other recycling plants, the company will turn tyres into usable petroleum and gas products, it adds. Based in Baelen (Liège province),…
Kobe Steel exits tyre testing machine business
Machinery maker Kobe Steel has announced that it has decided to withdraw from the tyre testing machine business and transferred the business to Nagahama Seisakusho Ltd recently. The Japanese firm has been engaged in the tyre testing machine business over…
Toyoda Gosei to dissolve UK subsidiary
Japanese auto parts maker Toyoda Gosei Co says it has made the decision to dissolve its subsidiary in the UK, Toyoda Gosei UK Ltd. (TGUK), as a part of its restructure of the company’s earnings in its European business. Toyoda…
Goodyear to slash 700 jobs in Asia-Pac; sell off retail outlets
Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company says it has approved “a rationalisation plan in Asia Pacific to improve profitability in its Australia and New Zealand operations”, which includes the sale of 100 retail and fleet locations and nine warehouses with a…
Cabot obtains ISCC Plus certification at facilities
US carbon maker Cabot Corporation has announced it has achieved International Sustainability and Carbon Certification (ISCC) PLUS certification at six of its facilities. It claims it currently has more ISCC Plus certified sites than any carbon black manufacturer and has…
Brabender ElaTest offers new functions for rubber compounds
Measuring systems company Brabender says its measuring system ElaTest for density determination of rubber and rubber compounds within the production-accompanying incoming goods and quality control is now available in a modern and robust design with high operating comfort as well…
Hong Seng aborts plans to build nitrile/glove plant in Kedah
Malaysia’s Hong Seng Consolidated Bhd is said to have put a halt on a RM3 billion project for a nitrile butadiene latex (NBL) plant in Kedah Rubber City, due to what it says is “weak market sentiment” in the industry.…
Michelin produces SBR with recycled styrene in France
Canadian tech company Pyrowave working with French tyre firm Michelin and expanded polystyrene (EPS) packaging maker Knauf Industries have successfully produced batches of finished elastomer and plastic products incorporating 100% styrene from plastic waste recycled in Canada using Pyrowave technology.…
Enviro/Siemens tie up for digitalisation of facilities
Tyre recycler Scandinavian Enviro Systems and tech firm Siemens have signed a MOU regarding a collaboration in support of the European expansion plan that Enviro announced earlier this year together with Antin Infrastructure Partners. Through the collaboration, Enviro gets access…