The European Tyre and Rubber Manufacturers Association recently its Statistics 2015 edition, a report on the region’s rubber and tyre market. The main findings of the report include the following: General Rubber Goods (GRG): After a slow 2013, the GRG…
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Vietnam will be joining ITRC
Vietnam will be joining the International Tripartite Rubber Council (ITRC), according to Bachrul Chairi, director general for international trade cooperation at the Trade Ministry in Vietnam. ITRC’s original members (Indonesia, Thailand and Malaysia) welcomed Vietnam’s plan to join with the…
PanAridus gains tenth patent for guayule rubber
Arizona guayule producer, PanAridus, LLC was granted their tenth patent. PanAridus already holds nine patents for guayule plants, which yields a polymer nearly identical to tropically grown natural rubber. It’s the only known source of U.S.- grown rubber to be…
Accella Performance Materials changes names of business units
Accella Performance Materials, a manufacturer of polyurethanes and recycled rubber products today announced the renaming of several core businesses to Accella Polyurethane Systems including, IPS Polymer Systems, MarChem, Arnco Performance Polymers, Premium Spray Products, Burtin Polymer Laboratories; and its ArncoPathway…
Goodyear will redeem EUR250 mn in senior notes
The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company announced its European subsidiary, Goodyear Dunlop Tires Europe B.V. (GDTE), will redeem all its outstanding EUR250 million aggregate principal amount of 6.75 percent senior notes due 2019 on January 14, 2016. The redemption price…
Dow and Dupont merge to form US$130mn company DowDupont
DuPont and The Dow Chemical Company announced that they will combine to form a company to be named DowDuPont. The parties intend to subsequently pursue a separation of DowDuPont into three independent, publicly traded companies. The companies will include an…
ContiTech plant manufactures 150,000th rubber track
ContiTech’s plant in St. Marys, Ohio manufactured its 150,000th rubber track. The product is used in a variety of construction and agriculture applications to drive high horsepower tractors, harvesters, grain carts, asphalt pavers and other miscellaneous applications. “This is an…
Falken Tire changes North America business units
As a result of the dissolution of the alliance between Sumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd. (SRI) and Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company, Falken Tire Corporation announced that SRI’s North America business units will be realigned as a part of a long…
Goodyear wins Boeing supply deal
The Boeing Company chose Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company to provide main nose and landing gear tires for its new 777X aircraft, which is scheduled for delivery in 2019. Building on the success of the Boeing 777 and 787 Dreamliner,…
Pirelli announces tyres for Australian Grand Prix
Pirelli will bring the following three compounds to the opening round of the 2016 Formula One season in Australia: P Zero White medium P Zero Yellow soft P Zero Red supersoft These are the tyres that Pirelli has said must…