Japanese firm Denka Co. Ltd., recently revealed plans to deal with globally tight supply for Chloroprene Rubber (CR), and to increase its production of CR by 10,000 tonnes. Plans include resuming operations at its domestic Omi Plant and removing bottlenecks…
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Hankook acquires digital solutions company
South Korean tyre company Hankook Tire has acquired a 75% share of Model Solution, a South Korea-based digital prototype solution company, for US$62 million. The acquisition is in line with the company’s strategy to secure new growth engines by aggressively…
Phillips Carbon Black to set up plant in Tamil Nadu
RP-Sanjiv Goenka Group heavy engineering outfit Phillips Carbon Black (PCBL) is setting up a greenfield manufacturing unit near Ennore in Tamil Nadu with an investment of Rs 600 crore. The chairman of the group, Sanjiv Goenka, told reporters here that the…
Boy’s UV-cured silicone processing allows for new material additives
Dr Boy, German injection moulding machine maker, says it has improved the processing of silicones with an 8 mm-size silicone unit on its Boy XS machine. It will present its latest technology at the German Rubber Conference in Nuremberg, that…
Rubber cultivation replacing cocoa farms in Eastern Region of Ghana
President of Concerned Farmers Association of Ghana, Nana Opanbour Bonsu II has expressed dissatisfaction over the clearing of cocoa trees for the cultivation of rubber in cocoa communities in the Eastern Region. He was speaking at an Agric Dialogue Series…
Ecolomondo to set up tyre recycling plant in Canada
Canada’s Cleantech company Ecolomondo Corp. is acquiring land in Hawksbury, Ontario, for a tyre recycling plant. Ecolomondo Corp. expects to process approximately 13,000 tonnes/year of tyre waste with the latest generation thermal decomposition technology (TDP) in a 52,000 sq-ft facility.…
Sri Lanka lifts ban on glyphosate weedkiller for use in tea/rubber estates
Sri Lanka was one of the first countries to ban the usage of glyphosate in the agriculture industry in 2015. It has now had a about-turn and will lift the ban for tea and rubber plantations only. Meanwhile, in the…
Europe: 94% of all used tyres recycled in 2016; slight increase over 2015
According to the European Tyre and Rubber Manufacturers’ Association (ERTMA)’s Used Tyre (UT) data for 2016, covering 32 countries (EU28, Norway, Serbia, Switzerland and Turkey), compared to the previous year, in 2016, Used Tyres collected in Europe (3.9 million tonnes)…
Cambodia’s rubber exports up in 1st quarter; revenue down
Cambodia exported 39,147 tonnes of dry rubber in the first quarter of 2018, which was up by 21% over the same period last year, according to a report released by the General Directorate of Rubber of the country. The Southeast…
MacLellan secures rubber contract for pipeline
UK’s MacLellan Rubber has been selected by one of the country’s premier gasket cutters to supply Natural Rubber material for the second phase of a pipeline Bearing Pad contract; the first phrase was awarded mid-2017. MacLellan’s part of the multi-million…