The Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI) has allowed glove factories in Malaysia to work at full tilt as of April 1, 2020, despite the currently ongoing partial lockdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The authorities have loosened the…
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New Australian road project makes use of crumb rubber from end-of-life tyres
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Toyoda Gosei to merge Indian production subsidiaries
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MRB’s transgenic rubber trees may hold anti-dengue capabilities in its latex
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Italian tyre maker Pirelli says it has taken stock of the deterioration of the global economic growth outlook because of the Covid-19 health emergency and therefore decided to: . reformulate the 2020 targets, while reserving the recalculation of the 2022…
Covid-19: Continental stops activity at 40% of facilities globally; withdraws forecast for year
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