Researchers from the Agricultural Research Service (ARS), the principal in-house research agency of the US Department of Agriculture, have successfully improved the guayule plant in order to enhance its rubber output. Rubber is usually made from petroleum or from the…
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India’s NR production set to exceed Rubber Board’s target for 2016-17
India’s natural rubber (NR) production in 2016-17 is expected to exceed the 654,000-tonne target set by the Rubber Board for the fiscal year as output rises nearly 18% to 622,200 tonnes until February 2017 from a year ago. The consumption…
Rubber Board, Kudumbasree form women labour groups for rubber industry
India’s Rubber Board is collaborating with Kudumbasree Mission, an all-women self-help group, to form women labour groups under the Rubber Producers’ Societies to increase the participation of women in the rubber tapping sector across the state of Kerala. Out of…
PRFA, Phoenix Petroleum to build cargo tyre manufacturing facility in PH
The Philippine Rubber Farmers Association (PRFA) and the country’s Department of Agriculture (DA) have signed an agreement with Davao City-based Phoenix Petroleum for the development of the first-ever local manufacturer of cargo tyres. The parties agreed to invest in the…
R.D. Abbott to distribute Lord Corp.’s adhesives in North American market
R.D. Abbott Company, Inc., a North American full service supplier of rubber materials used in compounding and fabrication, has signed an agreement with diversified technology and manufacturing company Lord Corporation to distribute the latter’s In-Mold Bonding (IMB) adhesives in the…
Sumitomo Chemical, Zeon S-SBR JV to begin operations in April
A new joint venture between major Japanese chemical company Sumitomo Chemical Co., Ltd. and Japanese chemicals manufacturer Zeon Corporation that consolidates that two companies’ solution styrene-butadiene rubber (S-SBR) business units will begin its operations on April 3, 2017. The two…
IEAT’s Rubber City in need of more skilled workers
Rubber City, a rubber industrial estate being developed by the Industrial Estate Authority of Thailand (IEAT), is teaming up with the country’s Labour Ministry to recruit skilled workers. The IEAT will also collaborate with educational institutes to produce skilled vocational…
Top Glove aims to improve performance despite expected market challenges
Malaysian rubber glove manufacturer Top Glove Corporation, the world’s largest rubber glove producer by volume, is aiming to improve its performance in the coming months despite the expected challenges in the market as higher input costs drag its fiscal second-quarter…
India’s RRII inaugurates international natural rubber clone museum
The Diamond Jubilee Block at the Rubber Research Institute of India (RRII), where the Advanced Centre for Molecular Biology & Biotechnology (ACMBB) is going to function, was recently inaugurated by Rita Teaotia, the secretary of the Department of Commerce in…
Apollo Tyres APMEA president Satish Sharma elected as ATMA chairman
Apollo Tyres’s Satish Sharma, president for Asia Pacific, Middle East & Africa (APMEA) unit, has been elected as the next chairman of tyre industry body Automotive Tyre Manufacturers Association (ATMA). Satish has held important portfolios in his two decades in…