Tyre manufacturer Continental has opened its new Solution Centre in Lousado, Portugal, which is located in the immediate vicinity of the tyre plant and has cross-functional teams to drive forward targeted digitalisation topics. The company has enlisted specialists from the…
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Timberland, Vans, North Face to roll out footwear of regenerative rubber from Thailand
US apparel, footwear and accessories companies firm VF Corporation says that its three-year-old regenerative rubber sourcing project is finally coming to market with several of its brands releasing new product collections this year that take advantage of rubber produced from…
Yokohama adds on high-load capacity tyres; shifts to renewable energy at Mishima tyre plant
Yokohama Rubber Co. says that it has begun production and sales of HLC (high load capacity) tyres to meet the needs of heavy duty passenger cars such as EVs and hybrid cars with high capacity batteries, as well as large…
Trelleborg invests in facility for sealing solutions in India
Swedish polymers specialist Trelleborg has invested in a new facility for sealing solutions in Bangalore, India. It will replace existing facilities that will soon reach their full capacity. The Indian market is showing continued strong growth and the investment is…
Phillips Carbon starts up production at Chennai plant
Phillips Carbon Black Ltd (PCBL), a part of RP Sanjiv Goenka Group, has commissioned the first phase of its Rs800-crore greenfield carbon black project in Tamil Nadu. After completing the first phase of the facility with a manufacturing capacity of…
Semperit to acquire LSR firm Rico; to strengthen market presence in North America
Given the annual growth rate of silicone will be around 7% until 2027, while the market for silicone applications in Western Europe and the US amounts to approximately US$8 billion (2023), Austrian polymers firm Semperit Group says that it will…
Rubber materials on route to renewable success
The focus on the rubber sector lately has been on sustainability, with one research highlighting a new analysis of a tried and trusted catalytic process. Butadiene, an essential component of synthetic rubber, is currently produced by the petrochemical industry from…
Versalis to invest EUR80 mn in elastomer capacity in Italy
Versalis, an Eni chemical firm, says it is preparing to invest around EUR80 million to develop its Ravenna industrial site in Italy, to increase capacity for high value-added elastomers. It adds that the aim is to “further expand the production…
Synthos targets rubber circularity award for researchers
Synthetic rubber producer Synthos has announced the launch of its first international research award for scientists pursuing PhDs in sustainable synthetic rubber, specialised high-performance elastomers and/or tyre compounds. The Synthos Rubber Circularity Award aims to encourage innovative ideas and solutions,…
Eneos applies Yokogawa’s AI control at chemical plant
In what it claims to be a first, synthetic rubber producer Eneos Materials Corporation (formerly the elastomers business unit of JSR Corporation) has adopted the use of Yokogawa Electric Corporation’s Factorial Kernel Dynamic Policy Programming (FKDPP), a reinforcement learning-based AI…