Mumbai, India — India’s Nocil Ltd has commissioned a new rubber chemicals facility in Dahej, in eastern India, as part of a INR2.5 billion (€23 million) investment programme, while separately ...

Frankfurt, Germany – The German rubber industry association (WDK) has strongly criticised recent demands by car makers for financial concessions as “reckless,” warning that there was no further room ...

Baramati, India – Austrian vibration isolation specialist Getzner Werkstoffe has expanded its international footprint with the opening of a new production facility in Baramati, in the western Indian ...

China's rubber machinery and moulds industry achieved overall positive growth in 2025 despite multiple challenges, Mesnac chairman and president Guan Bingzheng re ...

China has launched a new round of measures to upgrade ageing petrochemical and chemical facilities, with explicit ...

Tokyo – Natural rubber futures have depicted a mixed picture amid “prevailing uncertainties,” according to the latest weekly report by Japan Exchange Group (JPX). “Volatile crude oil prices and profit ...

Tokyo, Japan — Bridgestone has launched a joint research project with Japanese and Indonesian universities to carry out genetic analysis of para rubber trees in order to improve productivity and ...

Geneva, Switzerland — The Tire Industry Project (TIP) has published a new study introducing an "advanced mass balance model” to track and predict the movement of tire and road wear particles (TRWP) ...

Milan, Italy – The Italian government has imposed a series of restrictions on Pirelli’s Chinese shareholder Sinochem and its subsidiary the China National Tire & Rubber Co. (CNRC), under its “golden ...

Malmo, Sweden – Hexpol is targeting spring 2027 for the start-up of a technology-led initiative to modernise and automate its rubber compounding processes and operations in Europe.

Michelin expects global tire markets to remain weak in the first quarter of 2026, with original equipment (OE) demand declining across segments. In a ...

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