Covestro is planning to build a new "world-scale" MDI production train in China and has launched a feasibility study for a second plant in the United Arab ...

Pyrum Innovations has announced that its planned tire recycling plant at Perl-Besch, Germany is moving ahead after delays caused by the need to prove stable ...

Tokyo – Natural rubber (NR) futures ended the final full trading week of June “sharply lower,” amid stronger supply and lower crude prices. Over the week ended 26 June, commodity funds and speculators ...

Genan has agreed to acquire a tire recycling plant in Weiden, Germany, from (Auto-Teile-Unger) ATU Group as part of a strategy to strengthen its position in Eu ...

Zeon Corp. has launched its first subscription-based digital service, introducing a data management platform designed to help rubber manufacturers centralise and utilise ...

Tyres Europe has welcomed parts of the European Commission's proposed Energy Labelling Omnibus package but warned that other ...

In its monthly NR review for May, the Association of Natural Rubber Producing Countries (ANRPC) said elevated US-China trade tensions, the Iran war, and expectations that the US Federal Reserve will ...

Washington – The US International Trade Commission (USITC) has voted to maintain antidumping and countervailing duty orders on imports of passenger vehicle and light truck (PC/LT) tires from China ...

Elkem Silicones has rebranded as Bluestar Silicones, reviving the name it used between 2007 and 2017 following Bluestar’s acquisition of a majority stake in the ...

Researchers at the Qingdao University of Science and Technology (QUST) have developed a 'supercritical foaming technology' for polymers and elastomers that has ...

Kiyosu, Japan – Toyoda Gosei is looking to diversify its operations with a recent investment in ElevationSpace Inc., a Tohoku University spin-out developing returnable small satellites based on ...

New Delhi — India has initiated an anti-dumping investigation into imports of resorcinol, a key chemical used in tire and rubber manufacturing, originating in or exported from China PR and Japan.