Italy-based tyre manufacturer Pirelli has suspended production in its Venezuela site for an indefinite period of time due to lack of the necessary raw materials. Pirelli is the latest foreign company to suspend its operations in Venezuela amidst a severe…
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SaarGummi Group mulling JV with South Korea’s AIA Corporation
SaarGummi Group, a leading supplier of car body seals and moulds for the automotive industry, is considering a joint venture with AIA Corporation, a South Korean company engaged in processing and manufacturing rubber and plastic products for the automobile sector.…
Michelin, ICCF inaugurate new research lab for polymer modelling
French tyre manufacturer Michelin and Institut de Chimie de Clermont-Ferrand(Institut de Chimie de Clermont-Ferrand: Université Clermont Auvergne, SIGMA Clermont and CNRS) officially opened SimatLab, a new joint public-private research laboratory dedicated to the modelling of polymers. To accelerate the design…
Southern Thailand looks to infrastructure, tourism amid falling rubber prices
Declining rubber prices left the property market and residential demand in Thailand’s southern provinces to depend on investments from the government in infrastructure projects. Sureeratana Luckananit, senior director of the southern regional office of the Bank of Thailand, says the…
Toyo Tire Malaysia has manufactured more than 10 million tyres
Toyo Tyre Malaysia Sdn Bhd (TTM), the Malaysian automobile tyre manufacturing subsidiary of Japan-based Toyo Tire & Rubber Co., Ltd., has manufactured more than 10 million tyres. TTM was established in Malaysia’s Perak State in May 2013 as one of…
RISDA to disburse RM200 mn in dividends to rubber smallholders, next of kin
The Rubber Industry Smallholders Development Authority (RISDA) is disbursing RM200 million worth of dividends to participants of its cluster new planting plan (RTBB) and commercial replanting (TSK) initiative. They are calling on the participants or their next of kin to…
India abolishes cess on rubber, automobile and other goods
India’s central government has removed additional cess on goods and services included in the last three General Budgets – 2015-16, 2016-17 and 2017-18, as per a notification by the Finance ministry on June 7, 2017, to ensure the smooth rollout…
Malaysia working on new road-building method using coagulated rubber
Malaysia is working on a new innovative road-building technique using coagulated rubber that could mean more durable roads for the country and a new opportunity for the rubber industry in the future. Over the past two years, the Malaysian Rubber…
Toyoda, ASM to develop smart polymer e-Rubber for robots, devices
Toyoda Gosei Co Ltd, a Japan-based specialty manufacturer of rubber and plastic automotive parts, an exclusive licensing agreement for the use and sale of the Slide-Ring Material, a key material in e-Rubberto be used in dielectric actuators and dielectric sensors.…
3-D printing of porous silicone rubber structures now possible
Flexible and porous silicone rubber structures can now be 3-D printed thanks to a new technique that uses the principles behind the formation of sandcastles from wet sand. The method combines water with solid and liquid forms of silicone to…