UK manufacturer Dunlop Aircraft Tyres (Dunlop) is soon to build an aircraft tyre factory in Karawang, Indonesia, for about US$70.9 million. Dunlop’s new plant, developed and constructed together with local tyre-making giant PT Rubberman Indonesia, is projected to be operational…
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Bridgestone’s Susym is “world’s first” rubber-resin copolymer material
Tokyo-based Bridgestone Corporation (Bridgestone) has developed the world’s first polymer material that bonds rubbers and resin. Susym – a combination of the words “sustain,” “symphony” and “symbiosis” – has many advanced properties that is expected to establish the product as…
Murfitts acquisition of Sapphire to grow its tyre recycling capacity in the UK
Murfitts Industries (Murfitts), a UK tyre recycler, has recently acquired the tyre recycling assets of fellow English Sapphire Energy Recovery (Sapphire), in a move expected to nearly double the former’s tyre processing capacity. Part of Tarmac, Sapphire is a waste…
Letone Hydraulic starts up new US$236m rubber hose plant in China
China-based rubber hose maker Letone Hydraulic (Letone) has started construction on the first phase of its US$236.5 million Smart Hydro Industrial Park, a new plant for rubber hose and related products in Henan Province. Upon full operation in 2024, the plant…
Marangoni introduces new MTXL retread solution for OTR tyres
Italian-based tyre retreader Marangoni’s latest product development in the OTR tyre segment represents a new retread solution for Kiruna slag pot carriers. According to Ayhan Haliloglou, OTR tyre Area Manager at Marangoni, Valtasiirto, a Finnish company specialising in delivering comprehensive…
Arlanxeo to realign EPDM production network with closure of its Keltan unit in Texas by Q2 2020
Arlanxeo, a leading synthetic rubber company, said that it intends to realign its production network of Keltan Ethylene Propylene Diene Monomer (EPDM) elastomers to improve competitiveness and harmonise technology platforms across the Keltan EPDM portfolio. As a result, Arlanxeo is…
Continental, Pyrolyx sign five-year agreement for rCB; expects up to 10ktpa supply
Waste tyre pyrolysis company Pyrolyx will be supplying Continental’s numerous tyre manufacturing facilities worldwide with recovered carbon black (rCB) amounting to some 10 kilotonnes per annum (ktpa). Meanwhile, Pyrolyx expects to absorb over 3 million end-of-life tyres and simultaneously reduce…
Apollo Tyres, GARC to set up first European-compliant tyre test track in India
Indian tyre manufacturer Apollo Tyres (Apollo) has partnered with the Global Automotive Research Centre (GARC) test agency to establish India’s very first tyre test track, for various tyre safety testing, in the southern state of Tamil Nadu. The review of…
Arlanxeo to close EPDM facility in US; to limit impact on affected staff/shareholders
Arlanxeo, a synthetic rubber company based in The Netherlands, will be shutting down its ethylene propylene diene monomer (EPDM) elastomers facility in Orange County, Texas, in the second quarter of 2020 as it realigns global production and supply. As Arlanxeo’s…
Cooper Tire to take ownership of Mexican tyre manufacturing JV
Tyre manufacturer Cooper Tire Rubber & Co. (Cooper) is to buy out a 42% stake in a joint venture with Corporacion de Occidente S.A. (COOCSA). Cooper and Cooperativa Trabajadores Democraticos de Occidente (TRADOC) set up the joint venture tyre manufacturing…