Huntsman Corporation has announced construction has commenced on the 30-tonne Miralon carbon nanotube materials plant, originally announced in 2021. The new plant, which converts methane gas to carbon nanotubes and clean-burning hydrogen, will be one of the largest of its…
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Tyre Industry: Speeding up towards sustainability
Amid environmental issues over rising carbon emissions, the rubber/tyre sector is stepping up ...
Wacker expands speciality silicone facility in China
German chemical firm Wacker Chemie AG is expanding its specialty silicone manufacturing capacities in China. A kick-off event recently at the Zhangjiagang site in Jiangsu Province marked the start of construction of several new production lines, where the globally operating chemical…
Bridgestone’s first carbon-neutral tyre plant in India
Tyre maker Bridgestone has announced its first tyre manufacturing site to be verified as carbon neutral (scopes 1 and 2). The plant at Chakan in Pune, India, was audited in May and June 2023, and was subsequently verified according to…
Risorce raises EUR12 mn for tyre recycling facility in Belgium
Belgian start-up Risorce has successfully raised EUR12.5 million for the construction of a facility to recycle used tyres. Unlike other recycling plants, the company will turn tyres into usable petroleum and gas products, it adds. Based in Baelen (Liège province),…
Kobe Steel exits tyre testing machine business
Machinery maker Kobe Steel has announced that it has decided to withdraw from the tyre testing machine business and transferred the business to Nagahama Seisakusho Ltd recently. The Japanese firm has been engaged in the tyre testing machine business over…
Toyoda Gosei to dissolve UK subsidiary
Japanese auto parts maker Toyoda Gosei Co says it has made the decision to dissolve its subsidiary in the UK, Toyoda Gosei UK Ltd. (TGUK), as a part of its restructure of the company’s earnings in its European business. Toyoda…
Goodyear to slash 700 jobs in Asia-Pac; sell off retail outlets
Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company says it has approved “a rationalisation plan in Asia Pacific to improve profitability in its Australia and New Zealand operations”, which includes the sale of 100 retail and fleet locations and nine warehouses with a…
Cabot obtains ISCC Plus certification at facilities
US carbon maker Cabot Corporation has announced it has achieved International Sustainability and Carbon Certification (ISCC) PLUS certification at six of its facilities. It claims it currently has more ISCC Plus certified sites than any carbon black manufacturer and has…
Brabender ElaTest offers new functions for rubber compounds
Measuring systems company Brabender says its measuring system ElaTest for density determination of rubber and rubber compounds within the production-accompanying incoming goods and quality control is now available in a modern and robust design with high operating comfort as well…
Hong Seng aborts plans to build nitrile/glove plant in Kedah
Malaysia’s Hong Seng Consolidated Bhd is said to have put a halt on a RM3 billion project for a nitrile butadiene latex (NBL) plant in Kedah Rubber City, due to what it says is “weak market sentiment” in the industry.…