Bridgestone has introduced Potenza Sport, the company’s first mass-produced tyre to incorporate 55% ISCC PLUS certified recycled and renewable materials. The tyre was developed with Enliten technology to improve its sustainability characteristics and make it fully EV-ready, without making any…
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General Science rolls out tyres at new facility expansion in Cambodia
China’s General Science’s Cambodian subsidiary recently held a ceremony for the first batch of tyres to roll off the production line at the second phase of its tyre facility located in Sihanoukville Special Economic Zone. The project started construction in…
Nokian Tyres to add renewable material from birch bark to tyres
Nokian Tyres has signed a development agreement with Swedish biomaterial science company Reselo AB to further develop its renewable material Reselo Rubber as a potential new raw material in tyres. Reselo Rubber is a completely renewable material made from birch…
Bridgestone, Grupo BB&G and Versalis tie-up for recycling tyres to tyres
Tyre firm Bridgestone EMEA (Bridgestone), technology company Grupo BB&G (BB&G) and Italian chemical firm Versalis (Eni) have entered into an agreement aimed at establishing a closed-loop ecosystem to transform end-of-life tyres into new tyres. The agreement will bring together the…
Mitsubishi Chemical exploring recycling of end-of-life tyres through coke ovens
Japan’s Mitsubishi Chemical Group (MCG) says it is undertaking studies to perform chemical recycling of end-of-life tyres (ELTs) by utilising the coke ovens at its Kagawa Plant (Sakaide City, Kagawa Prefecture). It aims to begin marketing sustainable carbon black made…
Trederra/TRS to use recycled tyres in rubber soles of footwear
US firm Trederra LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of MatMarket LLC, has announced an exclusive supply agreement with Tyre Recycling Solutions (TRS) of Switzerland supporting the production of Trederra footwear outsoles made from end-of-life tyres. TRS will supply Trederra with…
Polymer colourants from end-of-life tyres for auto sector
Materials firm Avient Corporation has announced the launch of OnColor REC Polymer Colorants, formulated with pigments derived from recycled content, including end-of-life tyres. They offer an alternative to traditional carbon black formulations and can help manufacturers reduce their product carbon…
Zeon takes action against Arlanxeo on lithium ion battery materials patent in Germany
Japan’s Zeon Corporation says it has filed a lawsuit recently in the District Court of Munich, Germany, against Arlanxeo Deutschland GmbH (Arlanxeo), a manufacturer and supplier of lithium-ion battery materials, for infringement of Zeon’s German patent on lithium-ion battery materials,…
China extends anti-dumping duties on halogenated butyl rubber from US, EU, UK, Singapore
China has said it will impose anti-dumping duties on halogenated butyl rubber originating from the US, the European Union (EU), the UK and Singapore, the country’s Ministry of Commerce announced recently. Duties ranging from 23.1 to 75.5% will be levied…
Neste expands logistics for plastics/tyre recycling in Finland
Green materials firm Neste says it is expanding its logistics infrastructure for liquefied recycled raw materials at its refinery in Porvoo, Finland, including materials such as liquefied waste plastic and liquefied rubber tyres. This lays the foundation to handling larger…