A 3D-printed rubber material with self-healing properties has been developed by a team of US engineers from the University of Southern California Viterbi School of Engineering. Published in NPG Asia Materials, the 3D-printing method photopolymerisation,whereby light is used to solidify…
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LSR stretches its industrial footprint
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Medical: Flexible artificial muscles from liquid crystal elastomers
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China synthetic rubber leaps in bounds in 2023 – report
China’s synthetic rubber sees growth in 2023, according to an industry report. The Global and China Synthetic Rubber (BR, SBR, EPR, IIR, NBR, Butadiene, Styrene, Rubber Additive) Industry Report, 2018-2023 said that a growth rate of around 6% for synthetic…
GPSNR paves way for sustainable NR platform
More than 50 natural rubber stakeholders met in Singapore for a workshop featuring founding members of the Global Platform for Sustainable Natural Rubber (GPSNR), an independent platform to improve the natural rubber value chain, to align the organisation to a…
VMI opens new service centre in Thailand
VMI, a Netherland-based producer of tyre manufacturing machinery, opens a new service centre in Chon Buri Province, Thailand. The Thailand facility is the company’s ninth service centre. The service center employs engineers to provide support to VMI customers; and is…
European JV to set up ELT plant in Danish port
The prospective joint venture (jv) Elysium Nordic Apof Denmark’s WindSpace A/Sand Sweden’s Enviro has signed a lease agreement with Associated Danish Ports (ADP) for a site in Nyborgharbour on Funen, Denmark for material recovery of end-of-life tyres (ELT). The lease…
New partnership seeks to establish first sustainable NR supply in the US
American technology company United American Health Corporation (UAHC) has established a wholly-owned subsidiary American Sustainable Rubber Company (ASR), an indoor agriculture technology company focused on creating a domestic solution to natural rubber (NR) production. The company hopes to utilise proprietary…
Kerala’s Rubber Industrial Park to aid farmers vs rubber price “crisis”
A first-of-its-kind Industrial park for rubber products manufacturer will be set up in Kerala, India. During the presentation of 2019-2020 state budget, Finance Minister Thomas Isaac announced that the Kerala Government plans to set up an integrated park for rubber…
Canada’s tyre distributor Giant acquired by Trelleborg
The second largest industrial tyre dealer in the Montreal area has been acquired by Trelleborg, a global engineering company that focused on polymer technology. Through Trelleborg Wheel Systems, an agreement of acquisition is sealed with PNEU ICM Inc, a specialized…
NR policies take toll on India’s largest rubber producer
Harrisons Malayalam (HML), India’s largest producer of rubber and other agricultural crops faces profit loss as restrictions on felling old rubber trees and lack of replanting measures continue. A loss of over Rs 100 crores over 13 lakh MT of…
Marangoni scores majority stakes in South African tread company
Italy headquartered retread solutions expert, Marangoni Group has acquired the majority shareholding in the South African tread maker Leader Rubber Company SA (Pty) Ltd. The partnership between Leader Rubber and Marangoni has been ongoing for more than ten years and…