In a development that could substantially improve the quality of recycled plastics, Qatar University’s Centre for Advanced Materials (CAM) has made progress in ...

The country's first international rubber and tyre industry exhibition, Rubber and Tyre Vietnam 2013, opened on Thursday, 11 April 2013, at the Saigon Exhibition ...

Sumitomo Rubber Industries Ltd. plans to spend about 1.4 billion yen to open a radial motorcycle factory in Thailand.

Thailand will set up a rubber-processing industrial estate in the southern province of Songkhla to be fully engaged in producing and marketing in parallel to a ...

Versalis and Genomatica announced the signing of a definitive joint development and licensing agreement establishing a technology joint venture for bio-based ...

Continental Tires, the leading German tire manufacturer, is aiming to become one of China's top three tire makers and suppliers over the next five to six years ...

Japan's Toray Industries Inc. is committed to invest RM1 billion in Malaysia and achieve 1.8 times sales increase by 2020.

Vivion, Inc. has joined with Baulé USA LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Bayer MaterialScience, to distribute the company's Cast Polyurethane Systems line of ...

The Russian fluoropolymer producer Halopolymer has recently joined the European association of plastics manufacturers Plastics­Europe as new member company.

Kumho Tires started on 1 April 2013 offering a mileage warranty for its tires that allows customers to ask for compensation when any discrepancy occurs between ...

Saudi Basic Industries Corp. (Sabic) has signed an initial agreement with Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the United States, a world leader in ...

Engel Austria and PME Fluidtec GmbH have established a partnership in the field of water injection technology (WIT). The cooperation will encompass custom-made ...

Aditya Birla Nuvo Ltd. (ABNL) will sell its carbon black business Hi Tech Carbon to SKI Carbon Black (India) Private Limited, an Aditya Birla Group company, for ...

Dow Chemical recently announced it is planning to sell assets worth nearly USD 1.5 billion over the next 18 months and has already identified two business units ...

Trexel Inc. has set up the new subsidiary Trexel (Shenzen) Technology Co., Ltd. in Shenzen, China, to provide support for MuCell automotive programmes in the ...

To meet the growing market demands in the Pearl River Delta and Southeast Asia, Yantai Wanhua announced it will invest in Southern China to build multiple ...

PTT Global Chemical (PTTGC), Thailand's largest petrochemical producer, plans to lift its return on invested capital (ROIC) ratio to 15% within a decade from ...

Bridgestone announced that it will close down its passenger car tyre production facility in Modugno (Bari), Italy. The plant employs approximately 950 people ...

Dr. Kjell Fagerström, managing director at Elasto Sweden AB will be presenting at the VDI TPE conference taking place in Nürnberg, 16-17 April 2013. The ...

The outbreak of bird flu in China is expected to lift the rubber market in the near future, a dealer said. He said demand for healthcare rubber gloves will ...

Iran--one of the world's major petrochemical producers--plans to build a new petrochemical hub in the southeastern port city of Chabahar, Deputy Oil Minister ...

Velox GmbH has founded a joint venture in China. Local partner is Shanghai Brightfield Co. Ltd.; the name of the JV is Velox China Ltd.

Purac, a subsidiary of CSM, will acquire Bird Engineering B. V., a Dutch biotech contract research company, specifically in the field of industrial ...

PolyOne has agreed to acquire Spartech for approximately USD 393 million (~ EUR 302 million), including the assumption of the company’s net debt of USD 142 ...

Cabot Corporation has completed an expansion project at its fumed silica facility in Barry, Wales, UK. Production capacity at the site has been increased by 25 ...

In future, around 1,200 injection moulding machines will roll off the production line every year at Engel's plant in Pyungtaek City – almost double the present ...

LyondellBasell on 3 Apr. 2013 announced that Jiangsu Sailboat Petrochemical Co. Ltd. (JSPCL) has selected LyondellBasell’s Lupotech T and Lupotech A process ...

The government said Thursday (4 Apr. 2013) that it will introduce a “three strikes and you’re out” regulation on chemical accidents, urging companies to tighten ...

Solvay announced it will invest EUR 75 million to build a new 85,000 t/y highly dispersible silica (HDS) plant in Wloclawek, Poland. The site is located in a ...

The Center for the Polyurethanes Industry (CPI) of the American Chemistry Council (ACC) announced the call for entries for its 2013 Polyurethane Innovation ...

The International Institute of Synthetic Rubber Producers, Inc. (IISRP) has elected JNC America Inc. as their most recent Affiliate Member.

Cosmo Oil Co. Ltd., Hyundai Oilbank Co. Ltd. (HDO) and HCP (Hyundai Cosmo Petrochemical - a joint venture company between Cosmo Oil and HDO) have announced that ...

PT Asia Pacific Fibers (POLY), a major polyester manufacturer, said the company desperately needed USD 100 million to expand its production capacity to meet the ...

Toyo Engineering Corporation has been jointly awarded with ENPPI, an engineering company under the Egyptian Ministry of Petroleum, a contract to build a 400,000 ...

UOP LLC, a Honeywell company, announced 2 Apr. 2013 that its technology has been selected to produce key petrochemicals in a new complex in Brunei.

The demand for natural rubber is expected to rebound from now to 2020, Tran Thi Thuy Hoa, General-Secretary of the Vietnam Rubber Association (VRA) has said at ...

Sadara Chemical Company (Sadara) announced the successful closing of the sukuk (Islamic bonds) issued through its subsidiary Sadara Basic Services Company ...

On 28 January 2013, Japanese company Tokai Rubber Industries, Ltd. (TRI), Komaki City, has agreed to acquire the entire share capital of German Anvis Group ...

Zeon Chemicals L. P. plans to expand the production capacity of HyTemp polyacrylate rubber by 50 % at its Louisville, KY, USA, manufacturing facility.

The Italian compounder API has announced that it has embarked upon a radical process of organisational change. The company based in Mussolente near Vicenza said ...

Ter Hell & Co. GmbH has signed a distribution agreement with Evonik Industries AG. This agreement names Ter Hell as Evonik’s exclusive distributor for the ...

Walki Group announced that it will expand its production network in Europe by opening a new state-of-the-art manufacturing plant in Wroclaw, Poland. The new ...

Purac, a subsidiary of CSM, and Perstorp have announced a research and business development partnership for caprolactone lactide co-product, for amongst others ...

Yokohama Rubber announced that it has established Yokohama Tire Mexico S. de R.L. de C.V. (YTMX) in Silao, Guanajuato, Mexico in March this year. Gary Nash, ...

Malaysia-based agricultural and commodities company Felda Global Ventures Holdings is considering investing in rubber crop in Cambodia.

The Thai cabinet has approved an injection of USD 3.3 million (Bt109.89 million) into the tripartite rubber consortium for rubber price stability in the global ...

Total Malaysian trade in rubber products rose 5 % in value to RM19 billion last year from RM18.1 billion in 2011, with the United States being Malaysia’s ...

Kumho Tires, one of the world’s leading tire manufacturers, has won the internationally-acclaimed design award for two consecutive years since 2012 for its ...

ExxonMobil Chemical Technology Licensing LLC, an affiliate of ExxonMobil Chemical Company, has signed an agreement to license its tubular process technology to ...

Wison Engineering said it has completed and delivered six main projects for PetroChina Sichuan Petrochemical’s integrated refinery and petrochemical complex ...

PTT Global Chemical Plc (PTTGC), Thailand's biggest petrochemical maker, has moved closer to jointly setting up a USD 5 billion petrochemical complex with ...

Publicly-listed PT Titan Kimia Nusantara Tbk, the largest polyethylene manufacturer in Indonesia, plans to build a naphtha cracker complex near the company’s ...