The US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has seized five different products on suspicion of being made using slave labour overseas – rubber gloves from Malaysia, clothing from China, gold from the Democratic Republic of Congo, charred animal bones (bone…
To prevent India from accumulating hazardous waste material from other nations, the National Green Tribunal (NGT), a specialised judicial board in the country, has recently directed the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) to regulate the import of waste tyres. This…
Continental Tire (Continental) has launched a series of three “intelligent” construction tyres for on-/off- and mixed-road applications. Each line is designed to offer high mileage, durability, traction and retreadability to heavy-duty vehicles and comes with tyre sensors for digital monitoring.…
Russian oil/petchem firm Sibur and China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation (Sinopec) signed a MOU to cooperate in nitrile butadiene rubber (NBR) production. The parties have agreed to set up a joint venture (jv) for the production of NBR with a capacity of 50 kilotonnes/year in China.…
Synthetic elastomers company Arlanxeo says it has successfully ramped-up its sales of EPDM (ethylene propylene diene monomer) rubber, produced in Saudi Arabia and being marketed under the brand name Keltan KSA, through the course of 2019. Marketing and sales of…
UK polymers supplier Synthomer has inaugurated its new 36,000 tonnes expansion to its acrylic dispersions production facility in Worms, Germany. The investment increases the site’s capacity in excess of 30% and its fully automated production facility significantly enhances the site’s…
The French Michelin Group will soon close their production facility in Bamberg, Germany, due to a sharp decline in global demand for premium passenger car tyres and unexpectedly strong competition from Asian manufacturers. While the Group has invested some US$66…
Chinese tyre machinery maker Safe-Run Machinery (Safe-Run) has secured an international bid to supply the production systems for fellow Chinese Shandong Linglong Tire’s (Linglong) new factory in Serbia – Safe-Run is to provide Linglong with intelligent logistics solutions valued at…
Cabot Corporation (Cabot), a US-based specialty chemicals and performance materials company, recently held the grand opening of its new fumed silica manufacturing facility in Wuhai, China. The facility will cater to the growing fumed silica market in China as Cabot…
Japan’s Bridgestone Corporation (Bridgestone), Official Tire Partner of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games, has used its extensive commercial tyre and rubber expertise to provide barrier-less bus access in the newly-constructed athlete village for the event. The new solution,…