Amyris, Inc. and Michelin have agreed to cooperate in the development and commercialisation of Amyris No Compromise renewable isoprene. Under the agreement, the ...

A 5-billion-baht joint venture between Thai Hua Rubber and Chinese investors has been postponed over concerns about the uncertain outlook in Europe.

LyondellBasell announced that the sales offering for the 105,000 barrels-per-day refinery in Berre, France has resulted in no offer to purchase the refinery. ...

Lanxess announced that it will invest EUR 12 million to convert 50 % of its EPDM production in Geleen, the Netherlands, to the Keltan ACE technology. During ...

Bridgestone Europe announced that it will be rolling out a new round of price increases across Europe throughout the fourth quarter of 2011.

Sri Lanka is moving to reap dividends from the uptrend in the international rubber market. The country is also attempting to promote value added rubber exports ...

Farmers in the north-west hope to stave off poverty by growing rubber trees. Nguyen Tri Ngoc, director of the Crop Cultivation Department, told Viet Nam News in ...

Since the founding of a subsidiary in China in 2001, the KraussMaffei group has become well-established with products and services of its three brands ...

Saudi Arabia’s plastics market is booming. Consequently, the training sector there must provide the relevant skilled workers. One institution to have taken on ...

Effective immediately, Lanxess has globally increased prices by 5 % for the product group sulfur chlorides. The products thionyl chloride, sulfur chloride and ...

Bridgestone Commercial Solutions (BACS), a division of Bridgestone Americas Tire Operations, announced that effective 12 September 2011, it will raise the price ...

Having exceeded all expectations in attracting a turnout of some 10,500 visitors of which about 15 % were from overseas, the third edition of Tiprex – Thai ...

By 2020 the key 12 global auto OEM groups are expected to reduce their platforms from 223 in 2010 to 154, reveals the new study Analysis of Platform Strategies ...

At Medtec China 2011, PolyOne Corporation has announced that it has achieved ISO 13485:2003 certification at its color and additives facility in Shanghai.

Bridgestone Americas Tire Operations (BATO) today announced price increases for passenger and light truck consumer replacement and original equipment tyres in ...

Rubber has been grown commercially in the Philippines for many years but this was only in Mindanao. Rubber is particularly profitable to grow at this time ...

Songwon Industrial will increase global prices of its Songnox antioxidants between 10 and 20 %, effective 1 October 2011, or as contracts allow.

Ineos Styrenics announced that prices for all polystyrene products in Europe will increase by EUR 30.00 per tonne, effective from 1 September 2011.

The Rubber Industry Smallholders’ Development Authority (RISDA) is focusing on Sabah, with its vast fertile land, to promote rubber planting activities as an ...

DuPont Performance Polymers announces price increases for resins and elastomers effective 1 October 2011, or as contracts permit. According to the company, ...

Thailand is opening its own institute supported by both the public and private sectors to develop the local plastics industry into a major force in Asean.

Trelleborg has signed an agreement to acquire the French company Bloch S. A., a privately owned industrial hose solution provider with annual sales of about SEK ...