Colombo, Sri Lanka-based specialty tyre manufacturer Global Rubber Industries (GRI) has recently started up a natural rubber (NR) collection centre in nearby Monaragala district. The new NR collection centre is part of GRI’s Green-X Circle initiative, which will allow local…
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Safic-Alcan forms new South African subsidiary in Johannesburg
French independent distributor of specialty chemicals, Safic-Alcan, has announced the establishment of a new subsidiary based in Johannesburg, South Africa. Safic-Alcan develops and provides wide ranges of polymers, materials and additives for various industries, including rubber, across different markets worldwide…
Birla Carbon to restructure to focus on customers
Indian carbon black supplier Birla Carbon is undertaking organisational changes in what it says will drive closer connection to its customers, focus on market driven innovation, and leverage its global capabilities. The company will transition to a global functional organisation from…
Arlanxeo holds first virtual “Technical Marathon” for synthetic rubbers
Innovative synthetic rubber manufacturing company Arlanxeo has just held its first all-day online “Global Technical Marathon,” featuring 24 company professionals who gave world-class technical presentations hour-on-hour to a vibrant international audience. Their subject centered on the latest changes impacting the…
Australian tyre recycler looks at expanding to Europe
Australian tyre recycler Green Distillation Technologies, which says it has developed a world-first process that turns end-of-life tyres (ELTs) into high value oil, carbon and steel, believes the time is right for it to expand into the European market, despite…
NR prices/demand to pick up in Q3, says ANRPC
Malaysia-based Association of Natural Rubber Producing Countries (ANRPC) in its statistics for June 2020, painted a dismal outlook of natural rubber (NR), which has witnessed falling prices and demand, but expects consumption of NR to pick up in the third…
Bridgestone acquires UK tyre-management platform iTrack Solutions
The Bridgestone Corporation (Bridgestone) has recently acquired UK-based iTrack Solutions business, one of the largest providers of tyre management solutions for off-road vehicles in the UK market. iTrack Solutions offers a tyre pressure monitoring system (TPMS) which is specially designed…
VW/Continental offices searched in diesel emissions probe
German police have raided offices of automotive parts supplier Continental and automotive maker Volkswagen, in relation to the 2015 diesel emissions-cheating scandal. Continental was raided for its role in supplying diesel engine devices used to bypass emissions tests. Prosecutors in Hanover, Germany, conducted…
Continental breaks ground on air suspension facility in China
German technology company Continental recently held the groundbreaking of an electronic air-suspension systems plant in Changshu, which will further serve customer needs in China. The new facility in Jiangsu Province covers an area over 13,500 sq m and will start…
Halycon Agri finances investments in Cameroon/Malaysia with US$25 mn loan from Deutsche Bank
Deutsche Bank has provided a US$25 million sustainability-linked loan facility with a three-year tenor, and an accordion feature to upsize the facility to US$75 million, to Corrie MacColl, a subsidiary of Halcyon Agri Corporation. The loan will be used to…