An estimated 1 billion tyres around the world reach the end of their useful service life every year. Thus, tyre companies Bridgestone Corporation and Michelin Group will deliver a shared perspective regarding material circularity and the ambition to increase the…
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Silicones: Breakthroughs in medical-grade silicones at full speed
To address the need for important medical devices, new silicone technologies are being developed and made available, according to Angelica ...
Obituary: Remembering Winston Fernandez
Winston Fernandez, co-founder of Tara Media & Communications (www.taramedia.com.my), passed away peacefully on 5 May 2021 at the age of ...
Tyre sector gears up on sustainable rubber
The demand-supply disruption of rubber presents opportunities for tyre makers to explore novel and sustainable sources of rubber...
Gloves Industry,gloves pack a punch against Covid-19
A secure supply of gloves and new designs of antimicrobial gloves go hand-in-hand to stave off the health crisis facing ...
Amid pandemic: growth, expansion for Malaysia’s ace glove makers
The Covid-19 pandemic, which has tipped the scales of the majority of industries, has triggered unprecedented demand for the rubber ...
Bringing in-house eco-friendly rubber to the industry
The environmental and economic needs to increase recycling rates are the principal driving forces behind technological innovations in the 21st ...
Enviro to set up recycling plant in Uddevalla, Sweden
Scandinavian tyre recycler Enviro Systems has decided on the final location for establishing the previously announced 30,000 tonne-recycling plant in Uddevalla, Sweden. The company expects the new facility in Uddevalla to be completed during the fourth quarter of 2023. The long-term plan for the facility in…
Tafneft to use Versalis technology for new rubber plants
Russia’s PJSC Tatneft has signed a license and engineering agreement with Italian chemical firm Versalis relating to technologies for the production of nitrile butadiene rubber (NBR) and carboxylate styrene butadiene rubber latexes (XSBR). This is the next step in Tatneft’s development of its petrochemical…
Synthos receives EC approval to acquire Trinseo’s rubber business
Polish polymers maker Synthos has gotten the green light from the European Commission to finalise the US$491 million acquisition of US-based Trinseo’s rubber business. In May 2021 Synthos signed an agreement with Trinseo on purchasing its synthetic rubbers production plants…
Cabot to acquire Tokai Carbon’s Chinese plant for US$9 mn
US carbon black supplier Cabot Corporation says it has entered a definitive agreement to acquire Tokai Carbon (Tianjin) Co. from Tokai Carbon Group for US$9 million, subject to customary closing adjustments. The carbon black manufacturing facility was commissioned in 2006 and is located in close proximity to…
Global NR economy may suffer deficit by 2023 if demand remains low-ANRPC
It’s bad to have too much of a good thing. Surplus production capacity as a result of unusual expansion of mature tree area over the last five years (starting in 2016) has become a burden for the natural rubber economy.…
Falken opens new tyre warehouse in Germany
Falken Tyre Europe has opened a new 40,000 sq-m logistics centre in Gengenbach, Germany. Falken is the largest customer of the facility run by logistics partner FIEGE, which can store 450,000 tyres. Strategically located near the German-French border to serve…
Continental to acquire Trelleborg’s printing solutions business
German technology firm Continental has signed an agreement to acquire Trelleborg’s printing solutions business, headquartered in Lodi Vecchio, Italy. Thereby, the technology company says it complements its surface solutions and printing technology portfolio in order to enhance its presence with…
Pyrum on track with construction of ELT expansion in Germany
End-of-life tyre (ELT) recycler Pyrum Innovations has started the expansion of the production capacity of its pyrolysis plant at its headquarters in Dillingen, Germany. To date, the plant consists of one production line, which has been operating on an industrial…
Lion Elastomers to enter NBR business
US firm Lion Elastomers will be expanding the emulsion-based facility in Port Neches, Texas, US, to manufacture NBR rubber. This new undertaking will position the company to support the domestic demand and provide security of supply for nitrile rubber. Major…