End-of-life tyre recycler Pyrum Innovations has started test operation of its new pelletiser at its plant site in Dillingen, Germany. The pelletiser enables the recovered carbon black (rCB) obtained by means of the pyrolysis process to be bonded into pellets,…
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ICDX partners with Helixtap for Indonesian rubber contracts
Helixtap Technologies, the pioneer of AI-driven price and market intelligence for the rubber industry, is partnering with ICDX, the Indonesia Commodity and Derivatives Exchange, to create an exchange-traded rubber product. The partnership will address the growing need for improved capital…
Origin Materials and Mitsubishi Chemical to develop carbon-negative materials for tyres
Origin Materials, Inc, a US-based carbon negative materials company, and Mitsubishi Chemical Holdings Group (MCHG), Japan’s diversified chemicals and advanced materials producer, have entered a partnership to develop advanced chemicals and materials built on Origin Materials’ patented technology platform. As…
Seng Fong gets green light for listing on Malaysia’s main market
Seng Fong Holdings Bhd, a rubber processor producing and trading Standard Malaysia Rubber (SMR) and premium grade block rubber, via its subsidiaries, says that is has obtained the approval of the Securities Commission Malaysia (SC) to list on the Main Market of…
Bridgestone partners with LanzaTech to pursue tyre recycling
Bridgestone Americas is in an exclusive partnership with Carbon Capture and Transformation (CCT) company, LanzaTech NZ, Inc. to address end-of-life tyre waste. The two companies will co-develop the first dedicated end-of-life tyre recycling process leveraging LanzaTech’s proprietary CCT technology, creating…
Toyoda Gosei to enlarge auto plant
Toyoda Gosei Co will enlarge its Seto plant, located near its main customer in Japan, to strengthen the company’s competitiveness through more efficient manufacturing in interior and exterior products. The automobile industry today is moving toward concurrent manufacturing of different…
Bridgestone India expands chain of concept stores
Tyre maker Bridgestone India, part of the Bridgestone group, has launched six walk-through educative tyre stores that help customer make an informed choice on tyre purchase and related services. With this launch, Bridgestone says it has moved a step forward on its aim to digitise its dealership…
Sumitomo Rubber sheds light on mechanisms behind NR biosynthesis
Sumitomo Rubber Industries says that through ongoing joint research with Professor Yuzuru Tozawa of Saitama University, Associate Professor Seiji Takahashi of Tohoku University and Associate Professor Satoshi Yamashita of Kanazawa University, it has invented a new technique for evaluating enzymes…
Synthos/TRS see sharp rise in demand for recycled rubber
Polish rubber chemical maker Synthos and Swiss company Tyre Recycling Solutions (TRS) have seen a sharp increase in interest in TyreXol recycled rubber. The reasons for this increase are twofold and can be linked to reduced availability of synthetic rubber…
Goodyear to develop dandelion rubber in US
Tyre firm Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company has entered into a multi-year, multi-million-dollar program supported by the US Department of Defense (DoD), the Air Force Research Lab (AFRL) and BioMADE to work with Ohio-based Farmed Materials to develop a domestic source…