JAPANESE firm Tokai Rubber Industries (TRI), Ltd has completed the purchase of all the outstanding quotas of Brazil-based Produflex Minas Indústria de Borrachas Ltda. This is the second acquisition of automotive anti-vibration rubber manufacturers by TRI after the acquisition of…
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Wacker introduces tin-free catalyst for silicone rubber
MUNICH-based chemical firm, Wacker Chemie AG, will be presenting a tin-free catalyst for condensation-curing silicone rubber grades at the upcoming K 2013 show in Düsseldorf, Germany this October. According to the company’s press release, the ELASTOSIL Catalyst NEO, was tailored…
SafeRubber to develop thiourea-based accelerators substitute
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Quingdao rubber inventory down by 3%
RUBBER inventories in China’s bonded warehouses dropped close to 3% in the past weeks as commercial banks refuse lending money to tyre makers forcing the latter to cut down imports and buy domestic stocks instead. Rubber at Qingdao has also…
ContiTech takes over Legg
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US firm develops new formulation for EPDM materials
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BASF upgrades phenolic resin facility in Verbund
SPECIALITY chemicals firm BASF is increasing by 50% its production capacity of Kerosin, a branded phenolic resin used as a tackifier for tyre manufacturing, at Ludwigshafen, Verbund in Germany. The company has been producing Koresin from acetylene and t-butylphenol at…
Rhein Chemie opens rubber additive facility in Russia
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