France-headquartered rubber injection and compression moulding machine maker purchased the devulcanization centre Watson Brown HSM Berlin along with the patented HSM devulcanisation technology on an exclusive rights basis to expand its capabilities, according to Tim Graham, president of REP Corp,…
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MonTech inaugurates maiden showroom in US
MONTECH Werkstoffprufmaschinen GmbH, a producer and developer of testing instruments for the caoutchouc, rubber und elastomer industries , recently opened its first US showroom located near Fort Wayne in Indiana. showroom will showcase MonTech’s line of rubber testing instruments, including…
Yokohama to build Indonesian factory for marine fenders, hoses
THE YOKOHAMA Rubber Co., Ltd says that it will build a new plant for manufacturing pneumatic marine fenders and marine hoses in Batam Island, Indonesia. The 3 billion yen plant for material mixing, moulding and vulcanisation will start operation from…
Continental Tire’s Sumter plant to kick off in 2014
CONTINENTAL Tire the Americas’s 1 million sq ft plant in a 23-acre site in Sumter will start production by the beginning of next year, after a year and a half since the ground breaking of the site. A media tour…
Toyo opens Malaysia factory, to supply tyres to Saudi
TOYO Tire & Rubber Company has recently opened its new tyre factory in Malaysia. The new facility will also utilise Toyo Tires’s proprietary tyre production system, A.T.O.M., and is expected to produce about 2.5 million tyres annually by end of…
Baro to distribute European tyres in East Africa, seeks distributors
GERMAN wholesaler Baro Ltd, a leading distributor of products from Russia, Ukraine and other former CIS countries, with brands including TyReX, Voltyre, Dneproshina, Rosava, Kama, Omskshina and Cordiant, plans to invite new distribution partners for its European manufactured ranges of…
Dow Elastomers to realise world-scale EPDM facility plan in Louisiana
DOW Elastomers, a business unit of the Dow Chemical Company, will soon break ground on its planned world-scale NORDEL EPDM (ethylene propylene-diene terpolymer) facility in Plaquemine, Louisiana in US. It aims to utilise the company’s newest proprietary catalyst technology to…
Azelis, Phillips Carbon Black form distribution partnership
INDIA-based Phillips Carbon Black (PCB) Ltd, a part of the RP – Sanjiv Goenka Group and Belgium-headquartered Azelis Coatings and Rubber & Plastic Additives, have formed a partnership to distribute carbon black. Carbon black is found in a wide variety…
Expanko now part of RPM Performance Coatings Group
RPM International’s Performance Coatings Group (PCG) has acquired Expanko, a US producer of terrazzo tile (under the FritzTile brand), cork, rubber and rubber/cork floor tiles. The Philadelphia-headquartered Expanko, with factory in Mesquite, Texas, has annual sales of more than US$12…
Biesterfeld Spezialchemie subsidiary buys SMPC Production
BIESTERFIELD Specialties Sarl France, the French subsidiary of Biesterfeld Spezialchemie GmbH, has acquired SMPC Production company located in Saint-Ouen Alms. The acquisition has taken effect from April 1, 2013. Under the terms, the name and address of SMPC production remain…