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IN light of the growing demand for solution styrene-butadiene rubber (SSBR), Japanese firm JSR increased the capacity of its Yokkaichi plant from 25,000 to 60,000 tonnes/year last year. It also has a 30,000-tonne/year SSBR facility with Styron in Europe and…
Maplan continues strategic growth plan
CAPITALISING on its plastics manufacturing expertise, Austrian machinery firm Maplan will develop more vertical machines for a wide range of needs, with injection from top to bottom especially for applications that require a lower working height. For automated production applications,…
Michelin sells Paris hq, builds plants in US and Serbia
AFTER consolidating its Paris-based staff operations to a new site in Boulogne-Billancourt, French tyre maker Michelin has sold the 12,000 sq m property for EUR110 million to domestic insurance group Covea. Michelin will earn a capital gain of nearly EUR100…
China moves to green tyre and radial standards
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Weather deflates global rubber output
In Malaysia, unseasonal rains for almost a month from mid-February onwards have disrupted harvesting of trees.
Kotagala to plant rubber in Cambodia
SRI Lankan plantation firm Kotagala Plantations will plant 20,000 ha of rubber in Cambodia. Valued at US$70 million, the project aims to address the inadequate local production and rising costs of rubber in Sri Lanka. The plantation will be managed…
China sets up Nd-BR project and hits high on carbon black
TO support the development and production of neodymium-catalysed butadiene rubber (Nd-BR), China has initiated a four-year project to study the chemistry, engineering and practicality of a pilot-scale reactor. The project involves the nation’s top research institutions and universities such as…
Asia Carbon reports healthy revenue
Its average sales price was US$988/tonne during 2011, up by 11% from US$894/tonne in 2010.