Against the back of tough times in the automotive industry as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, two tyre majors have announced plant closures recently. Germany-based Continental plans to close a tyre plant in the city of Aachen in northwestern Germany…
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Nynas changes ownership; Neste sells stake to Bitumina
Finnish oil and engineering services company Neste has sold its entire shareholding in Nynas to Bitumina, a global bitumen company active in more than 100 countries. This is an important step in the ongoing company reorganisation of Nynas. Sweden-based Nynas is a…
Proposal to set up US$300 mil tyre factory in Sri Lanka
Sri Lankan Minister of Industries Wimal Weerawansha and Hambantota International Port Group Pvt. Ltd. (HIPG) recently met up to decide on the building of a US$300 million tyre factory in the southern port city of Hambantota. The factory will be…
IRR’s pyrolysis system offers waste rubber solution for the UK
Carlton Forest Group’s IRR Manufacturing, responsible for UK’s only continuous pyrolysis plant, has stated that repurposed waste rubber could deliver substantial energy savings and ample business opportunities to manufacturers from the production of by-products such as pyrolysis oil and pyrolysis…
Yokohama plans OTR tyre plant in India
Continued rise in demand for off-road tyre (OTR) products has spurred the Yokohama Rubber Co. Ltd. (Yokohama) to build another tyre manufacturing plant, this time in Visakhapatnam, southeast Andhra Pradesh, India. Construction on the US$165 million manufacturing plant is set…
Michelin announces European consortium for ELTs
Michelin is to co-ordinate a new recycling project which will promote “a massive circular economy of tyres” by designing world-first processes to produce new tyres from end-of-life tyres (ELTs). The BlackCycle Project covers 5 European countries: France, Spain, Germany, Greece,…
Cabot to increase global price for activated carbon
US-headquartered Cabot Corp. (Cabot) will increase prices globally by as much as 3 – 8% for all its activated carbon products effective for all shipments made on or after 1 October 2020, or as customer contracts allow. According to Cabot,…
GoMobile Tires deploys additional service vans, national call centre in the US
US mobile tyre service GoMobile Tires (GMT) will deploy an additional 50 mobile tyre vans in September 2020 and set up a national call centre to manage all calls and appointments around the US. These form part of its “multi-phase,…
EWI, WindSpace forms new partnership; Enviro withdraws from Elysium Nordic JV
Canadian firm Environmental Waste International (EWI) has partnered with Danish WindSpace for the development of tyre recycling plants throughout Europe. EWI’s patented Reverse Polymerisation technology and microwave delivery system will be developed at Windspace’s Elysium Nordic plant in Nyborg, Denmark.…
AZ-Métal introduces a secure tyre collection system for smaller outlets
French manufacturer AZ-Métal has come up with a secure and compact solution – the eAZyBox container – to help with lower volume waste tyre storage issues which plagues small retailers and garages.Eco-company Aliapur has taken delivery of the first 50…