India’s natural rubber (NR) production in 2017-18 is expected to rise 15% to its highest in four years at 750,000 tonnes as rubber farmers take advantage of the current rally in natural rubber prices and go back to tapping trees,…
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Malaysia to build rubberised roads to boost domestic rubber consumption
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Continental to build greenfield passenger, light truck tyre plant in Thailand
Leading German automotive manufacturing company Continental AG has chosen the province of Rayong in Thailand to be the site of its greenfield production facility for passenger and light truck tyres in the Asia Pacific (APAC) region. The investment into the…
Firestone increases load capacity of its Forestry Special tyres
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ASTM International forms committee for recovered carbon black standards
International standards organisation ASTM International has approved the launch of a new technical committee that will focus on creating and updating standards for the field of recovered carbon black (rCB). Recovered carbon black is derived from post-consumer rubber such as…
ETRMA: Moderate increase in 2016 tyre sales, imports in European market
The European Tyre and Rubber Manufacturers’ Association (ETRMA) has published a tyre sales report of its members for the year 2016 and the last quarter of 2016 (Table 1). Despite minor fluctuations in the sales of consumer tyres in the…
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Chinese rubber equipment manufacturers eyeing investments in India
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Rubber MSMEs in India urge import duty increase on finished rubber products
Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises in India’s rubber industry are calling for an increase in import duty on manufactured rubber goods entering the country. They are asking for import duties to be increased to 30% from the current maximum of…