The rubber industry has pressed the panic button at the rate natural rubber (NR) production in the country has been shrinking. NR production has nosedived in the last two years and this needs urgent solution, the industry bodies said in…
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Giti Tire disappointed at tyre duties decision
Giti Tire Group said it was disappointed by the U.S. Department of Commerce’s June 12 final determination to issue heavy antidumping and countervailing duties against Chinese passenger and light truck tyres imported from China. Commerce issued final antidumping duties of…
Goodyear closes Wolverhampton tyre factory with 330 job losses
Tyre company Goodyear has announced plans to close its only UK manufacturing plant. All 330 workers at the Wolverhampton site are expected to lose their jobs. The US company, which plans to transfer the site’s operations elsewhere, said the move…
Disposable Rubber Examination Gloves Market 2015 – Global Industry Analysis and Forecast by 2019
Global Disposable Rubber Examination Gloves Industry 2015 report analyzed the world’s main region market conditions, including the product price, profit, capacity, production, capacity utilization, supply, demand and industry growth rate etc. The research study titled ‘Global Disposable Rubber Examination Gloves…
Rubberised roads to boost rubber demand and price
The Public Works Department (JKR) and the Malaysian Rubber Board yesterday signed a Memorandum of Agreement to undertake joint research in the use of the frozen rubber “cup lumps” as an additional material in asphalt, Bernama reports. It is good…
ContiTech to purchase German hose manufacturer
ContiTech A.G. plans to purchase Waltershausen-based hydraulic hose manufacturer Knapheide GmbH Hydraulic Hoses, part of the Knapheide Group. “We are taking over the production facilities, the property as well as 90 colleagues from Knapheide GmbH Hydraulic Hoses,” a ContiTech spokeswoman…
BKT launches RIB 713: a new radial tyre for farming implements featuring IF technology
Made for agricultural implements, the new RIB 713tyre, size 280/70 R 15, is designed to reduce soil compaction and withstand punctures. Not even the newest amateur gardener on the block would think of planting lettuce in a walkway, or worse,in…
PolyOne celebrates Grand Opening of New Asia Innovation Center
PolyOne Corporation (NYSE: POL), a premier provider of specialized polymer materials, services and solutions, today celebrated the grand opening of its new Asia Innovation Center in Shanghai, China. The new facility enables collaborative innovation, accelerates application development and increases speed-to-market…
Smithers Rapra expands tyre testing capabilities at Ohio laboratory
Smithers Rapra, a world leader in rubber, plastics and composites testing expertise, announced that its tyre and wheel testing laboratory in Ravenna, OH, successfully completed a laboratory alignment for the measurement of tyre rolling resistance with the Global Network of…
Kerala’s exclusion from rubber subsidy scheme deplored
Leaders of both the United Democratic Front and the Left Democratic Front have come down heavily on the Union government’s decision to exclude rubber growers in Kerala from its rubber subsidy scheme. Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) president V.M. Sudheeran…