India’s natural rubber production for 2016-17 jumped to 690,000 tonnes, up 23% from a year earlier, exceeding the Rubber Board’s 654,000-tonne target. Natural rubber output in 2015-16 was recorded as the lowest in two decades at 562,000 tonnes. The production…
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Thailand’s NRPC extends loan programme to stabilise rubber industry
Thailand’s Natural Rubber Policy Committee (NRPC) is extending a 1-billion Baht loan programme for another year to stabilise the rubber industry. The Natural Rubber Policy Committee meeting, chaired by Prime Minister Gen Prayut Chan-o-cha, has agreed to give rubber farmers…
Natural rubber output by ANRPC members up 2% in Jan-Mar 2017
Natural rubber production by members of the Association of Natural Rubber Producing Countries (ANRPC) is estimated to have reached 2.499 million tonnes, showing a 2% increase in the first three months of 2017 compared to the same period a year…
Thailand’s first automotive, tyre testing centre to be completed by 2018
Thailand’s first automotive and tyre testing centre that follows global standards is set to be completed and ready for operations by 2018. “The first phase of the testing centre should be ready for Thai car and tyre makers in 2018.…
Indonesia, France partner to develop sustainable natural rubber
Indonesia and France are partnering with each other to develop sustainable natural rubber across plantations in Indonesia through joint social and environmental studies. The US$270,000 partnership agreement was signed by French Development Agency (AFD) and Royal Lestari Utama (RLU), an…
IEAT’s Rubber City in need of more skilled workers
Rubber City, a rubber industrial estate being developed by the Industrial Estate Authority of Thailand (IEAT), is teaming up with the country’s Labour Ministry to recruit skilled workers. The IEAT will also collaborate with educational institutes to produce skilled vocational…
India’s RRII inaugurates international natural rubber clone museum
The Diamond Jubilee Block at the Rubber Research Institute of India (RRII), where the Advanced Centre for Molecular Biology & Biotechnology (ACMBB) is going to function, was recently inaugurated by Rita Teaotia, the secretary of the Department of Commerce in…
Kerala exports Rs30 mn worth of rubber to Brazilian company
Manimalayar Rubbers Private Ltd., a company owned jointly by India’s Rubber Board and the Rubber Producers’ Societies (RPSs), is venturing into rubber exportation with the sales deal it made with by Industria de Artefatos de Borracha, a company based at…
Global tyre chemicals market to go over 42.58 mn tonnes by 2025
The global tyre chemicals market is expected to grow at a moderate pace, surpassing 42.58 million tonnes by the year 2025, according to a new report by Research and Markets titled “Global Tire Chemicals Market By Type (Natural Rubber, Synthetic…
India’s NR output likely to go up 15% as farmers go back to tapping
India’s natural rubber (NR) production in 2017-18 is expected to rise 15% to its highest in four years at 750,000 tonnes as rubber farmers take advantage of the current rally in natural rubber prices and go back to tapping trees,…