INDIA”s Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) is embarking on an initiative in the five worst Left Wing extremism (LWE)-affected States to provide Maoists with livelihood and income opportunities when they surrender arms. The MHA, in association with the Ministry of…
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Karex uses strategy versus rubber price fluctuation
WORLD’s largest condom manufacturer by export, Karex Bhd, has its way to buffer the impact of fluctuating rubber and packaging price. This was revealed by its CEO Goh Miah Kiat, who says that the company has a price hedging mechanism…
Yokohama to build Indonesian factory for marine fenders, hoses
THE YOKOHAMA Rubber Co., Ltd says that it will build a new plant for manufacturing pneumatic marine fenders and marine hoses in Batam Island, Indonesia. The 3 billion yen plant for material mixing, moulding and vulcanisation will start operation from…
Latest Chevy Spark EV fits Bridgestone tyres
BRIDGESTONE Group has announced that its Bridgestone-brand Ecopia EP150 tyres will be original equipment (OE) on the all-new 2014 Chevy Spark Electric Vehicle (EV)..
Continental Tire’s Sumter plant to kick off in 2014
CONTINENTAL Tire the Americas’s 1 million sq ft plant in a 23-acre site in Sumter will start production by the beginning of next year, after a year and a half since the ground breaking of the site. A media tour…
Toyo opens Malaysia factory, to supply tyres to Saudi
TOYO Tire & Rubber Company has recently opened its new tyre factory in Malaysia. The new facility will also utilise Toyo Tires’s proprietary tyre production system, A.T.O.M., and is expected to produce about 2.5 million tyres annually by end of…
Baro to distribute European tyres in East Africa, seeks distributors
GERMAN wholesaler Baro Ltd, a leading distributor of products from Russia, Ukraine and other former CIS countries, with brands including TyReX, Voltyre, Dneproshina, Rosava, Kama, Omskshina and Cordiant, plans to invite new distribution partners for its European manufactured ranges of…
IMF’s lower global rubber outlook hits rubber demand
ACCORDING to a report from Bloomberg, rubber retreated from a one-week high after the International Monetary Fund (IMF) cuts its global growth outlook for this year and next, raising concern that demand for rubber used in tyres may weaken. The…
Top buying countries’ weak economy curbs rubber exports from Indonesia
INDONESIA’s rubber exports, as well as selling price to China, the US and Japan have decreased, however the three countries remain its top buyers of rubber, specifically from North Samatra, according to the Secretary of the North Sumatra branch of…
Ansell delivers new addition to TNT gloves line
ANSELL launches its new gloves offering in the Touch N Tuff (TNT) product line – the Touch N Tuff 73-500 sterile sensitive polychloroprene gloves and Touch N Tuff 73-300 clean sensitive polychloroprene gloves for the life sciences industry, and the…