Continued rise in demand for off-road tyre (OTR) products has spurred the Yokohama Rubber Co. Ltd. (Yokohama) to build another tyre manufacturing plant, this time in Visakhapatnam, southeast Andhra Pradesh, India. Construction on the US$165 million manufacturing plant is set…
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Tokai Kogyo, SaarGummi conclude technical agreement for automotive seals
Japanese sealing systems supplier Tokai Kogyo Co. Ltd. (Tokai Kogyo) have concluded a “wide-reaching” technical cooperation agreement with SaarGummi Technologies S.a.r.l. (SaarGummi) related to the automotive business. The joint product-portfolio of Tokai Kogyo and SaarGummi includes complex door seals, trunk…
Michelin announces European consortium for ELTs
Michelin is to co-ordinate a new recycling project which will promote “a massive circular economy of tyres” by designing world-first processes to produce new tyres from end-of-life tyres (ELTs). The BlackCycle Project covers 5 European countries: France, Spain, Germany, Greece,…
BKT to develop specially-designed EV tyres for agricultural vehicles
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Cabot to increase global price for activated carbon
US-headquartered Cabot Corp. (Cabot) will increase prices globally by as much as 3 – 8% for all its activated carbon products effective for all shipments made on or after 1 October 2020, or as customer contracts allow. According to Cabot,…
GoMobile Tires deploys additional service vans, national call centre in the US
US mobile tyre service GoMobile Tires (GMT) will deploy an additional 50 mobile tyre vans in September 2020 and set up a national call centre to manage all calls and appointments around the US. These form part of its “multi-phase,…
New Energy to supply BASF pyrolysis oil from waste tyres
Germany-based chemical firm BASF SE has signed an uptake supply agreement with New Energy, a technology company specialised in the pyrolysis of waste tyres, headquartered in Budapest, Hungary. According to the agreement, New Energy will supply BASF with up to…
EWI, WindSpace forms new partnership; Enviro withdraws from Elysium Nordic JV
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