AUSTRIA-based Elmet debuts its new production approach for the processing of liquid silicone rubber (LSR), which cures under UV-light from a LED source, at the K 2013 held in Düsseldorf, Germany. According to Elmet, this method eliminates the high curing…
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LSR stretches its industrial footprint
Liquid silicone rubber, or LSR, is an advanced elastomer that has gained traction ...
Tyre Sector: Setting in motion the wheels of change
Once liabilities and eye sore on landfills, end-of-life tyres have now become assets ...
Tyres: Space’s the limit for rubber tyres
Innovative rubber tyres are entering the era of space missions: as a catalyst ...
Medical: Flexible artificial muscles from liquid crystal elastomers
In Canada, an international team led by researchers at the University of Waterloo ...
Tyres: Tyre makers take the wheel to turn the sustainability corner
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New Pallmann technology recycles waste rubber to fine powder
PALLMANN, one of the world’s largest developers, producers and providers of innovative size-reduction technology, launches a new grinding system that enables energy-efficient recycling of vulcanised rubber waste back into fine powder for direct reuse in rubber processing. Karakal, the new…
Social media app to sell tyres, score followers
US=based TCS Technologies, a Microsoft Certified Partner, and software and internet marketing provider in the tyre and auto service industry, has developed an application (app) called “Like Us and Save” to help tyre dealers gain more followers and bring in…
Indian ministry promotes rubber cultivation amongst Maoists
INDIA”s Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) is embarking on an initiative in the five worst Left Wing extremism (LWE)-affected States to provide Maoists with livelihood and income opportunities when they surrender arms. The MHA, in association with the Ministry of…
Karex uses strategy versus rubber price fluctuation
WORLD’s largest condom manufacturer by export, Karex Bhd, has its way to buffer the impact of fluctuating rubber and packaging price. This was revealed by its CEO Goh Miah Kiat, who says that the company has a price hedging mechanism…
Yokohama to build Indonesian factory for marine fenders, hoses
THE YOKOHAMA Rubber Co., Ltd says that it will build a new plant for manufacturing pneumatic marine fenders and marine hoses in Batam Island, Indonesia. The 3 billion yen plant for material mixing, moulding and vulcanisation will start operation from…
Continental Tire’s Sumter plant to kick off in 2014
CONTINENTAL Tire the Americas’s 1 million sq ft plant in a 23-acre site in Sumter will start production by the beginning of next year, after a year and a half since the ground breaking of the site. A media tour…
Toyo opens Malaysia factory, to supply tyres to Saudi
TOYO Tire & Rubber Company has recently opened its new tyre factory in Malaysia. The new facility will also utilise Toyo Tires’s proprietary tyre production system, A.T.O.M., and is expected to produce about 2.5 million tyres annually by end of…
Baro to distribute European tyres in East Africa, seeks distributors
GERMAN wholesaler Baro Ltd, a leading distributor of products from Russia, Ukraine and other former CIS countries, with brands including TyReX, Voltyre, Dneproshina, Rosava, Kama, Omskshina and Cordiant, plans to invite new distribution partners for its European manufactured ranges of…
IMF’s lower global rubber outlook hits rubber demand
ACCORDING to a report from Bloomberg, rubber retreated from a one-week high after the International Monetary Fund (IMF) cuts its global growth outlook for this year and next, raising concern that demand for rubber used in tyres may weaken. The…