South Korea’s leading tire manufacturer, Hankook Tire Group, has changed the name of its holding company and six major subsidiaries to an integrated branding system under Hankook, the company announced Wednesday (8 May 2019). Holding group Hankook Tire Worldwide has changed its name to Hankook Technology Group, while its flagship company Hankook Tire changed to Hankook Tire & Technology. Five other subsidiaries also changed the name to include the word Hankook, such as AtlasBX, a storage battery manufacturer, that changed to Hankook AtlasBX.

Cancarb expands its thermal carbon black production capa­city. Engineering and construction of a sixth thermal carbon black unit at its facility in Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada has started in Q4 2018, with targeted completion by the summer of 2020. The company currently has five thermal carbon black units with a total capacity of 45,000 t. The sixth unit will add 9,000 t of capacity and will produce Cancarb’s signature grades of Thermax medium thermal carbon black. Cancarb is a subsidiary of Tokai Carbon Co. Ltd.