China-based company Jiangsu General Science Technology will trial its US$300 million tyre production plant in December 2019 in Rayong Industrial Zone, Thailand, which is currently the world’s largest rubber producer. The plant is to produce 1 million truck/bus tyres and…
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Premium tyre manufacturer Nokian Tyres (Nokian) has recently inaugurated its Dayton, Tennessee, passenger/light truck tyre factory – the company’s third overall and first outside of Europe – some two years after breaking ground on the US$360 million project.The Dayton factory…
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Munich-based Wacker Group has opened a plant for manufacturing pyrogenic silica at its US site in Charleston, Tennessee. The facility has a production capacity of 13,000 tonnes/year and Wacker says it will use this output both for sales purposes and…
US Customs seizes Malaysian rubber gloves in anti-slavery crackdown
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NGT advises ban on waste tyres imported to India
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 introduces ‘intelligent’ truck tyres for mixed-use
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.…
Sibur enters into jv with Sinopec for NBR/SEBS production
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.…
Arlanxeo ramps up sales of EPDM rubbers produced in Saudi Arabia
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…
Synthomer opens acrylic dispersions facility in Germany
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…
Michelin to close German passenger car tyre plant as market value declines
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…