Malaysian rubber glove manufacturer Top Glove has made its first remediation payment of US$1.05 million to resolve a migrant labor issue less than a month after the US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agency placed a detention order on disposable…
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Australian court fines man for illegal dumping of tyres
A man has been fined AU$30,000 (US$21,655) in the Ipswich Magistrates Court after pleading guilty to unlawfully transporting and dumping tyres in 2018 in at least 17 locations in southeast Queensland,including on vacant or state land in the local government…
Maxxis Tyres to expand Indian manufacturing plants
One of the fastest-growing tyre manufacturing companies in India, Maxxis Rubber India Pvt. Ltd., plans to set up at least five manufacturing units in India in addition to the expansion of current units that cater to the two- and four-wheeler…
Orion designs custom packaging solution for carbon black
Global supplier of carbon black, Orion Engineered Carbons S.A. (Orion) has introduced a new packaging system – Minibags – for dust-free and sustainable handling of both powder and beaded carbon blacks. The soluble and meltable Minibags have been designed to…
Continental to expand business at Indiana facilities, create new jobs
Manufacturer and technology company Continental AG (Continental) plans to invest more than US$4 million to expand its ContiTech Vibration Control business unitin DeKalb County, Indiana. Aside from increasing efficiencies in its anti-vibration systems at the 100-sq. ft. facility, Continental plans…
Hartalega set to reimburse up to US$9 mn to migrant workers
Malaysian glove manufacturer Hartalega Holdings Bhd. (Hartalega) expects to reimburse up to RM40 million (US$9.54 million) in recruitment fees paid by migrant workers to third-party employment agents during recruitment. Hartalega is working with an external independent party to review the…
Yokohama India doubles capacity at Haryana plant after expansion
Yokohama India, a wholly-owned subsidiary of The Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd. is to double capacity at one of its plants located in Bahadurgarh, Haryana, to 1.6 million tyres per year; the initial capacity was 0.7 million tyres manufactured per year.…
ANRPC: NR demand will see small rebound by October 2020
The Association of Natural Rubber Producing Countries (ANRPC) said natural rubber (NR) demand will likely increase driven by early, unexpected economy recovery in China and the US. China also has scaled up its outlook on the consumption of NR for…
Spanish Decree updated to recover/recycle more tyres, facilitate circular economy
A Spanish Royal Decree “that will accelerate the transition of the end-of-life tyre (ELT) sector towards a model of circular economy” has been approved by the Council of Ministers, on the proposal of the Ministry for the Ecological Transition and…
World Rubber Summit postponed to 2021
With the earlier announcement of the postponement of the World Rubber Summit (WRS) 2020, which was to be held in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire from 4-6 May 2020, Singapore-headquartered International Rubber Study Group (IRSG) has said that the event will be…