Category: Industry News

Cabot to open battery application centre in Europe

Cabot Corporation says its plans to establish a new technology centre in Münster, Germany, that will focus on technical collaboration with customers in order to accelerate application innovation for Cabot’s battery materials product lines within Europe. The new facility furthers…

Synthos to close ESBR production line in Czech Republic

Synthetic rubber producer Synthos says that it will cease Emulsion-SBR (ESBR) production at its Kralupy plant in the Czech Republic in the second quarter of this year, citing the “unsustainable market environment for ESBR due to unpredictable costs in Europe…

Weighing equipment takes care of Elmet’s silicone parts

A multihead weigher from Japanese firm Ishida has proved to be the ideal solution to enable Austrian silicone specialist Elmet to efficiently fill around 100 million small parts into bags every single day. Investing in this exceptional packaging technology, which…

EU sanctions synthetic rubber/carbon black imports from Russia

In the European Union (EU)’s latest 10th package of sanctions against Russia, since the country’s aggression against Ukraine, are import bans into the EU of Russian high-revenue goods such as bitumen and related materials like asphalt; and synthetic rubber and carbon blacks. These new…

Pyrum to build 2nd plant in Germany

End-of-life tyre (ELT) recycler Pyrum Innovations says that it will construct a new pyrolysis plant in Homburg, Germany, after the Homburg City Council voted in favour of the sale of a city-owned property to Pyrum. The contract to secure the…

Reinforcing rubber with graphene nanotubes

Luxembourg-based OCSiAl says it has expanded its portfolio of products for reinforcing and adding conductivity to rubbers with new graphene nanotube technologies for nitrile butadiene rubber (NBR). Starting from 0.2%, graphene nanotubes can increase the modulus by up to 53%…