Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. will relocate its Latin America regional headquarters in Sao Paulo, Brazil, to Akron, Ohio, the tyremaker said. Roughly 30 to 50 positions at the regional office will move to Goodyear’s corporate headquarters starting in…
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Mitsui and Sinopec establishes jv to construct EPT rubber plant
Mitsui Chemicals and China Petroleum & Chemical have announced the startup of one of the world’s largest EPT (ethylene-propylene-dieneterpolymer) plant for a single train under their joint venture, Shanghai Sinopec Mitsui Elastomers. EPT, which has superior resistance to heat and…
New incentives to be proposed to assist Malaysian rubber smallholders
The Rural and Regional Development Ministry will propose to cabinet several new incentives soon to assist the rubber smallholders who were affected by the intensive decline in the commodity’s prices. Its Minister Datuk Seri Mohd Shafie Apdal said the incentives…
Thai rubber industry urges gov’t to set farmers compensation for price below Bt60
The rubber industry will today ask the government to compensate farmers for a market price below Bt60 per kilogram after initially seeking compensation for prices below Bt80. The news comes as the government has revealed that it believes a planned…
Goodyear Dunlop inaugurates new winter tyre testing facility in Finland
The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co.’s Goodyear Dunlop (EMEA) group opened its new winter tyre testing facility, deemed the “Arctic Center,” in Ivalo, Finland, on Dec. 8. The track is leased from Action Park, a company that specializes in winter…
IRGA plans to boycott domestic tyre makers
The Indian Rubber Growers Association (IRGA) may boycott domestic Indian tyre manufacturers if tyremakers continue to buy rubber from cheaper, imported sources. The association, which accused the companies of trying to “cash in on the miseries of the rubber farmers,”…
Bridgestone tyre manufacturing plant in Wilson gains Honda award
20 Bridgestone Americas announced that its Wilson, N.C. tire manufacturing plant recently received three Green Factory Environmental Achievement Recognitions at Honda’s 22nd annual Environmental, Safety and Ergonomics Symposium. The Bridgestone Wilson tire plant, which produces more than 32,000 passenger tires…
Lindberg & Lund Group to market Wacker silicones
Germany-based Wacker Silicones has appointed Norway’s Lindberg & Lund Group to market its products of room-temperature-vulcanizing silicone rubber grades in Finland, effective March 1, 2015. Meanwhile, in Sweden, ABIC Kemi AB, (which is now part of the Lindberg & Lund)…
Continental cleared to buy Veyance, against sale of air springs plant
German auto dealer Continental has obtained clearance from US antitrust authority (the Department of Justice) to buy the rubber and plastics company Veyance Technologies under the condition that that it will divest Veyance’s air springs plant in San Luis Potosí,…
Apollo launches largest loader tyre at IMME 2014
Apollo Tyres has introduced the largest ever loader tyre in India at the 12th International Mining and Machinery Exhibition (IMME) 2014 in Kolkata. The company also launched its second product, the ALT 188 TX tyre with the industry’s first traction…