Tokai Carbon and its subsidiary Tokai Cobex are to acquire Carbone Savoie International SAS, a French carbon and graphite manufacturer, for US$183 million. Carbon Savoie garners 95% of its sales revenue from exports and in 2018 had a sales revenue…
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JXTG Nippon Oil & Energy Corporation (JXTG) is to conduct the feasibility study of a new Ethylidene Norbornene (ENB) plant, to be built in Jubail, on Saudi Arabia’s eastern coast, as part of the petrochemical Amiral complex, announced by Saudi…
Apollo resumes partial production at Kerala, India, manufacturing plant
Apollo Tyres Ltd. (Apollo) has resumed partial production at its manufacturing plant in Perambra, India, on April 21 after government directives exempting its operations from the national lockdown. Apollo had previously halted operations at its Indian sites in Kerala (Kalamassery…
MRF to donate more than US$3mn to COVID-19 relief initiatives in India
Madras Rubber Factory Ltd. (MRF), a tyre manufacturer based in India, has revealed that it will contribute as much as INR25 crores (US$3.28 million) to support various COVID-19 initiatives within the country. The COVID pandemic is one of the toughest…
Michelin to restart production at UK factory after furloughing hundreds of production staff
French tyre manufacturer Michelin is set to reopen its UK factory in Stoke-on-Trent in a few days – Michelin’s production workers are set to return to the site from April 27 (there will be a phased return) while work has…
Sibur’s new Russian plant to produce synthetic NBR latex for technical, medical gloves
Russian petrochemicals company Sibur plans to launch commercial production of synthetic nitrile butadiene rubber (NBR) latex at its Krasnoyarsk site in eastern Siberia, Russia. The company said the new Krasnoyarsk Synthetic Rubber Plant will be crucial for “import substitution of…
US agrees to build more plants with Australian tyre recycling technology
Green Distillation Technologies (GDT), an Australian tyre recycling company, has secured US backing for its world-first tyre recycling technology that produces “high-value oil, carbon and steel from end-of-life (EOL) tyres, in demand by world markets at promising market prices.” GDT’s…
Bridgestone “temporarily shuts down” 11 plants in Japan due to COVID-19
Japan-based tyre and rubber company Bridgestone will suspend operations at 11 Japanese plants across select prefectures in late April and early May, in response to the unstable market conditions and poor demand amid the quickly spreading COVID-19 outbreak. According to…
Saipem to build US$150 mn PBR plant in Egypt
Italian petchem company Saipem, leading a consortium with Egypt-based Petrojet, has been awarded a contract by Egyptian Ethylene & Derivatives Co. (Ethydco) for the first polybutadiene-producing facility in Egypt, with an expected production capacity of 36,000 tonnes/year. Saipem and Petrojet…
Cambodian rubber exports decline sharply after strict border security
Tightened measures at border checkpoints along the Cambodian border with Vietnam, to prevent the spread of COVID-19, has caused rubber exports to plummet and “will continue to affect rubber exports as long as restrictions remain in place,” said local exporter…