Tokyo - Zeon Corp has broken ground on a bench-scale facility to produce "highly efficiently" butadiene from ethanol derived from biomass and other sources. The unit will be built at Zeon’s Tokuyama ...

Milan, Italy – Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) is claiming an industry first by adopting 70% sustainable tires from Pirelli: starting with selected Range Rover models later this year.

Hamburg, Germany – Biesterfeld has received distribution rights for biobased rubber filler Hemplizit across Europe, the German distributor announced 26 June.

Brasilia – Brazil has extended definitive anti-dumping duties on Chinse tires for five-year period, following a third sunset review of the duties, initially imposed in 2009.

Houston, Texas – Orion SA has announced plans to discontinue production at "three to five" carbon black lines at multiple sites in the Americas and EMEA by the end of 2025. The move is part of a ...

Dow announced its European asset review in October last year, with the focus initially on the polyurethanes segment but later ...

Izmit, Turkey - Goodyear has announced plans to temporarily suspend tire production at its facility in Izmit within the framework of its ‘business continuity plan’. In a 25 June notification to the ...

Helsinki – Black Donuts Inc. is developing bio-based material for tire treads, with industrial-scale production expected in ...

Clermont-Ferrand, France – French union CGT Michelin has expressed concern over the future of ‘white-collar jobs’ in France due to an accelerated wave of relocations from Clermont-Ferrand to ...

Dillingen/Saar, Germany – Pyrum Innovations AG has received approval from local authorities for the early start of ...

In April, Linglong unveiled ‘investment intentions’ for the €1-billion greenfield tire plant in Brazil with an overall ...

Furthermore, the upper articulations will be delivered by Huebner subsidiary Hemscheidt Engineering. This is Huebner’s third ...