As India faces rubber shortage, the country is looking to import around 300,000 tonnes of natural rubber (NR) from Thailand to meet the domestic requirements.The country’s annual NR demand is more than 1 million tonnes, while the domestic production is…
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Indonesian manufacturer Multistrada expects tyre sales prior to Ramadan
Publicly-listed Indonesian tyre manufacturer MultistradaArahSarana is anticipating a 10% increase in sales during Ramadan as consumers prepare for the annual EidulFitr. The Indonesian Transportation Ministry estimates that 2.4 million cars and 5.6 million motorcycles are expected to hit the roads…
Continental starts manufacture in its new tech centre in Korbach
Continental’s new High Performance Technology Center (HPTC) at the Korbach plant in Germany manufactured its first tyre and marked June 8 as its official start-up. The new plant, which had been under construction since September 2014, represents an investment of…
Durban-based Mathe Group leads the way in tyre recycling
Mathe Group, an innovative South African company, manufacturing high quality rubber granulate from post-consumer tyres, is leading the way in tyre recycling. The process utilises sophisticated American technology, and generates a variety of useful products. The 2,500-sq m factorystarted operationsin…
Bridgestone India inaugurates 500th passenger car tyre store
Bridgestone India Pvt. Ltd., a subsidiary of world’s largest tyre and rubber company Bridgestone Corporation, celebrated the launch of its 500thfamily channel store in India. This move makes them one of the largest tyre companies in the country with a…
Hexpol acquires UK rubber compounder Berwin Group for £25mn
Hexpol AB, a Sweden-based world-leading polymers group with strong global positions in advanced polymer compounds, gaskets for plate heat exchangers, and plastic and rubber materials for truck and castor wheel applications, has acquired 100% of the Berwin Group Ltd from…
SmithersRapra adds new rubber and polymer flammability testing in Akron
SmithersRapra, a world leader in rubber, plastics and composites testing expertise, announced that they have added new rubber and polymer material flammability testing capabilities at its Akron laboratory. The new flammability chamber will expand the current capabilities resulting in a…
Continental advances in tyre production using dandelion rubber
Continental Tire embraces the flowering weed, dandelion, as a key component to the future oftyres. In conjunction with The Fraunhofer Institute for Molecular Biology and Applied Ecology, Julius Kuehn-Institute, and EKUSA, Continental Tire has produced, and tested, the first tyres…
Online tyre recall search tool launched by RMA
Tyre consumers in the US now have a new resource that will help them identify if a tyre is subject to a recall. The Rubber Manufacturers Association (RMA), a national trade association for tyre manufacturers that produce tyres in the…
ContiTech, Henkel will work together in printed electronics segment
ContiTech Elastomer Coatings and Henkel Adhesive Technologies will now work more closely together in the fields of functional printing and printed electronics. On June 1, the two companies made an announcement regarding their agreement at the printing trade show drupa…