IN A REPORT, consumption for natural rubber (NR) fell 1.5% to 165,000 metric tonnes in the April-May period, compared to 167,000 metric tonnes during the same period last year, despite an increase of output to 112,000 metric tonnes or 1.2%…
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South and East Asia rubber news
Malaysian Rubber Board chairperson reappointed
INCUMBENT Malaysian Rubber Board (MRB) chair, Datuk Wira Ahmad Hamzah has been reappointed to his post, the Plantation Industries and Commodities Ministry announced. It is expected that the reappointment will enable Ahmad to provide continuity MRB’s implementation of strategies and…
Malaysian State smallholders to benefit from rubber board’s measures
THE SABAH Rubber Industry Board will be increasing the rubber hectarage of smallholders from the current 94,000 hectares to 130,000 hectares by 2020. Agriculture and Food Industry Minister Datuk Yahya Hussin also said in a statement that the board will…
Association sees Kerala NR sector likely to crash
THE ASSOCIATION of Planters of Kerala (APK) cautions that the natural rubber (NR) growing sector in the Indian state of Kerala is likely to slip into crisis due to frequent price drops and production cost hikes. Y Raghavan, Chairman of…
First post-harvest rubber facility in the Philippines gets approval
THE REGIONAL office of the Philippine’s Department of Agriculture has approved the country’s first rubber post-facility located in Northern Mindanao for processing an estimated 1,000 hectares of rubber tree plantations in the area. The Mindanao Rural Development Program’s (MRDP) affirmed…
Indian rubber group seeks freeze on rubber import levy
THE ALL India Rubber Industries Association (AIRIA) has urged the Government to dissolve Customs duty on imported raw materials such as butyl and other synthetic rubbers to abate influx of cheap Chinese imports into the domestic market. The group said…
Slow demand weighs down on Malaysian rubber market
SLOW DEMAND and bleak global economic prospects seem to linger far too long, affecting commodities market. Citing a report from the country’s news agency, Bernama, the Malaysian rubber market is seen to drop further in the week. The decline is…
Bridgestone beats design patent rap in China
BRIDGESTONE Corporation has won an infringement of design patent rights lawsuit against Qingdao Genco Industrial Group Co., Ltd. in Qingdao, Shandong Province, China. The tyre maker argued that Qingdao Genco Industrial Group Co., Ltd,, after it has been found to…
India seeks to expedite appeal for rubber levy hike
THE INDIAN Commerce Department urges the Finance Ministry to expedite on its recommendation for import duty hike on rubber to aid domestic farmers against falling prices. Rubber prices dropped from Rs 230 a kg in the previous year to about…
Apollo plant cited with quality systems award
APOLLO Tyres’s Chennai-based plant bagged the the platinum (first) prize in the large-size category of the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry’s (FICCI) annual quality systems awards held May 16. Satish Agarwal, chief of corporate manufacturing at Apollo,…