CHINA has posted a 7.7% to 320,300 units rise in truck sales in March from a year earlier, according to a data released by China Association of Automobile Manufacturers (CAAM). According to Orient Futures Co. analyst Yan Xinbin, the positive…
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Indian firm Aditya Birla Nuvo has decided to sell its carbon black business to a group company, SKI Carbon Black (India), for about US$26 million as part of its plan to exit the business in the near future. An option…
KKR to acquire Indian Alliance Tire
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Kultevat and KeyGene work on dandelion rubber
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Flurosilicone approved for aerospace use
US firm Simrit’s F273 fuel resistant fluorosilicone material has been approved for the aerospace Qualified Product List (QPL). Simrit is the first and currently the only company approved by the Society of Aerospace Engineers and the Performance Review Institute (PRI)…
Myanmar rubber export earnings slid by US$80 million
MYANMAR’s rubber exports earning swung low by US$80 million, despite an increase in rubber exported this year compared to the previous year, due to the low global rubber price at US$400 per tonne. In a statement by the Myanmar Rubber…
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LIBERIAN President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf resounded a challenge to rubber processing companies operating in the country: Shift their focus by considering investing in manufacturing finished products. Sirleaf contended that the country’s export of natural processed rubber may have to be…
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