More than 90 cooperative-members of RUBBERCO in Bayawan City are expected to improve their livelihood in rubber production after the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) under its Shared Service Facility (SSF) program turned over rubber sheet processing equipment recently.…
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Pirelli reports strong results in international tyre tests
Italian tyre firm Pirelli has recently scored well in test results carried out by Russian and Swedish publications. The tyres tested were both from the Cinturato family; Russia’s Za Rulem tested the Cinturato P1 while Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet tested the…
Ships and ports dictate tyre developments
While most trucking fleet discussions talk about roads and highways, at Continental Tire, they’re thinking about ports and ships. Paul Williams, Continental’s executive vice-president told reporters at a press conference, that shipping and intermodal practices make a difference in trucking…
SE Power enters into recycling of waste tyres
To expand the business activities, S.E. Power Ltd has entered into a new venture of recycling of waste tyres and setup a Rubber Reclaimed Unit in Vadodara, Gujarat and recently has started the commercial production from said unit. The Management…
Ivory Coast rubber firm Sogb says 2013 net profit falls sharply
Ivory Coast natural rubber producer Sogb’s net profit fell to 5.84 billion CFA Francs ($12.27 million) in 2013, from 15.24 billion CFA Francs ($32.02 million) the previous year, the company said on Thursday. “The drop in the results relative to…
JK Tyre releases India’s first ever truck racing tyre
JK Tyre released India’s first ever truck racing tyre -Jet Racing – during the just-concluded T1 Prima Truck Racing Championship at Budh International Circuit in Greater Noida. JK Tyre developed and designed the new truck racing tyres especially for this…
LANXESS announces price increase for EPDM Rubber
The Keltan Elastomers business unit of specialty chemicals group LANXESS will globally raise its prices for all of its Keltan EPDM grades (Ethylene Propylene Diene Monomer), effective April 1, 2014. The price adjustment for EPDM is USD 150 per metric…
ITRC aims to stabilise rubber prices
The cooperation between three major rubber producers — Malaysia, Indonesia and Thailand — in the form of International Tripartite Rubber Council (ITRC) is expected to stabilise the declining prices of natural rubber. Plantation Industries and Commodities Minister Datuk Seri Douglas…
US Silicones industry demand to grow 4.7% annually to 2018 says a new research report
US demand to rise 4.7% annually through 2018. US demand for silicones is forecast to climb 4.7 percent annually to $4.3 billion in 2018, with volume rising 3.2 percent per year to 900 million pounds. This will be an acceleration…
Ministers warned again over ‘weak supervision’ of waste tyres
The Tyre Recovery Association (TRA) has reiterated calls for a moratorium on exempting ‘small-scale’ tyre recycling from requiring an environmental permit, over concerns that such sites are not being regulated. The Environment Agency does not regulate exempted sites as they…