The Rubber Manufacturers Association (RMA), the national trade association for tyre manufacturers in the US, relaunched under the brand new banner of the US Tire Manufacturers Association (USTMA).The USTMA also unveiled its rebranded and newly designed website for the new…
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Nigeria’s Edo State to give rubber sector a boost
Godwin Obaseki, the governor of Edo State in Nigeria, said he will boost rubber production efforts in order to increase the state’s foreign exchange earnings. According to him, rubber was a major source of foreign earnings for the country before…
India considers repealing the Rubber Act
The central government of India is mulling the repeal of the Rubber Act of 1947, which is often referred to by the country’s rubber farmers as “the Constitution”.The Act has been one of the key elements regulating the rubber industry…
Russia offers to trade fighter jets for Indonesia’s rubber
Russia has offered to trade its Sukhoi Su-35 fighter jets for Indonesia’s natural rubber. Indonesia’s Trade Ministry foreign trade director general Oke Nurwan was quoted as saying that Russia is interested in the country’s crumb rubber. However, the Indonesia government…
ContiTech closing Cosmoflex plant; expanding PVC hose plant
ContiTech, a division of German automotive manufacturing company Continental and a specialist in rubber and plastics technology, has announced the closing of its Cosmoflex plant in Hannibal, Missouri in the US by the end of the year. The company also…
JV termination led to high revenue growth for Semperit
Due to the termination of almost all joint ventures of Semperit Group with the Thai Sri Trang Agro-Industry Public Co Ltd Group, the Vienna-based publicly listed company saw high positive one-off effects in the first quarter of 2017. Although, the…
UAE uses scrap rubber tyres, organic materials to pave roads
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) is recycling scrap rubber tyres and using organic materials to pave roads. Hussain Al Mansuri, acting undersecretary of the Ministry of Infrastructure Development, said they have taken up a number of experimental projects to add…
ANRPC: 2017 global NR output to increase, but still fall short of rising demand
Rubber tapping activity is expected to increase this year in key rubber-producing countries like Thailand, Vietnam and India that could lead to the expected 5.7% rise in the 2017 global natural rubber output, the Association of Natural Rubber Producing Countries…
US rubber demand to hit US$8.9 billion in 2021, report says
Demand for rubber in the US is forecasted to reach US$8.9 billion in 2021, according to a report recently released by Freedonia Focus Reports titled “Rubber: United States”. Tyre manufacturing and retreading represents a significant source of demand for rubber…
Momentive to showcase new self-bonding liquid silicone rubber at Chinaplas
Momentive Performance Materials Inc., a worldwide leader in silicones and advanced materials, will introduce a new self-bonding liquid silicone rubber (LSR) series at Chinaplas 2017 to be held in Guangzhou, China from May 16 to 19, 2017. The self-bonding technology…