Italy’s retreading company Marangoni says it has entered into a partnership with Chinese firm Prinx Chengshan’s Austone brand, focusing on truck and bus tyres. The tie-up comes as Prinx Chengshan has reorganised its commercial vehicle tyre business in the Germany,…
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Circtec raises EUR150 mn funding for tyre recycling plant in Europe
UK recycling start-up Circtec has secured fundng of EUR150 million to construct, what is said to be, Europe’s largest end-of-life tyre (ELT) pyrolysis recycling facility in Delfzijl, the Netherlands. The funds include a EUR75 million equity investment led by Novo…
Enviro/Siemens tie up for digitalisation of facilities
Tyre recycler Scandinavian Enviro Systems and tech firm Siemens have signed a MOU regarding a collaboration in support of the European expansion plan that Enviro announced earlier this year together with Antin Infrastructure Partners. Through the collaboration, Enviro gets access…
Indian Oil to construct PBR plant in India
Indian Oil Corp (IOCL) has said that it plans to build a 60 kilotonne-per-annum (ktpa) polybutadiene rubber (PBR) plant at its existing naphtha cracker complex in Panipat, north of Delhi. IOCL is said to be investing around US$190 million in…
AGM appoints Rayoung Chemtech as Taiwanese distributor
Applied Graphene Materials, the producer of specialty graphene nanoplatelet dispersions, says that it has signed an exclusive distribution agreement with Rayoung Chemtech Inc. (headquarters, Taipei, Taiwan). The partnership will extend AGM’s commercial reach directly into the region’s liquid resins, coatings, composites and…
Cabot breaks ground on compounds facility in Indonesia
Carbon black maker Cabot Corporation has broken ground on a new specialty compounds facility in Cilegon, Indonesia. The new facility is co-located with Cabot’s existing carbon black manufacturing site and will add 20,000 tonnes/year of global capacity for specialty compounds,…
ASEAN demonstrates best practice in NR production, supply – PEF
This year, the Programme for the Endorsement of Forest Certification (PEFC) has focused on the Southeast Asian region, which accounts for 85% of the world’s natural rubber (NR) output . Its purpose is to ensure that the region employs the…
Evonik/Wynca Chinese fumed silica plant goes on stream
The joint venture between Evonik and the Chinese company Wynca – Evonik Wynca (Zhenjiang) Silicon Material Co. is starting-up its new fumed silica plant. Located in the Zhenjiang New Material Industry Park in Jiangsu province, the plant is Evonik’s first…
Bridgestone consolidating auto seat pad plants in Japan
In line with its restructuring plan, tyre maker Bridgestone Corporation says that it will consolidate its plants for automotive seat pads in Japan, which are now manufactured in four plants owned by its group companies, out of which three plants are owned…
Tyrexpo Asia 2021 becomes fully digital
After announcing in August, that Tyrexpo Asia 2021 in Singapore would become a hybrid exhibition, alongside the three day ‘live’ event, Tarsus Southeast Asia, organiser of the show, now say that with high travel restrictions in place, Tyrexpo Asia 2021…