Rubber
Engel Austria and PME Fluidtec form partnership for WIT applications

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

Rubber
Aditya Birla Nuvo divests carbon black business

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 ...

Rubber Polyurethanes
Dow to sell PP Licensing & Catalysts and Plastics Additives units

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 ...

Rubber
Trexel establishes subsidiary in China

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 ...

Rubber Polyurethanes
THAILAND: PTTGC eyes high-margin polymers, expects plastics demand to rebound

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 ...

Rubber
Bridgestone to close Bari plant in Italy and relocate Shenyang plant in China

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

Rubber
MALAYSIA: Bird flu outbreak in China to lift rubber market

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 ...

Rubber Polyurethanes
IRAN: Chabahar Petrochemical Complex to attract USD 20 billion investment

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 ...

Rubber
Velox joint venture in China

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.

Rubber
Purac to take over biotech company Bird Engineering

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

Rubber
PolyOne to buy Spartech for USD 393 million

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 ...

Rubber
Cabot completes fumed silica capacity expansion in UK

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 ...

Rubber
Engel completes plant expansion in Korea

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 ...

Rubber
CHINA: LyondellBasell licenses technology for LDPE and EVA plant

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

Rubber Polyurethanes
KOREA (SOUTH): Chemical accidents face tough sanctions

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 ...

Rubber
Solvay expands HDS production by 30 %

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 ...

Rubber
IISRP enlists JNC America Inc. as newest affiliate

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

Rubber
KOREA (SOUTH): Hyundai Cosmo Petrochemical holds inauguration ceremony for new para-xylene plant

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 ...

Rubber
INDONESIA: Asia Pacific Fibers plans expansion amid debt tangle

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 ...

Rubber Thermoplastic Elastomers
EGYPT: TOYO awarded polyethylene plant of Ethydco

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 ...

Rubber Polyurethanes
BRUNEI: UOP technology selected for petrochemicals complex

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.

Rubber
VIETNAM: Rubber demand to increase

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 ...

Rubber Polyurethanes
SAUDI ARABIA: Sadara sukuk oversubscribed 2.6 times

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

Rubber
TRI to acquire automotive anti-vibration systems manufacturer Anvis

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 ...

Rubber
Zeon increases ACM production capacity

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

Rubber Polyurethanes
Ter Hell signs distribution agreement with Evonik Industries AG

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 ...

Rubber
Yokohama Rubber establishes subsidiary in Mexico

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, ...

Rubber
CAMBODIA: Malaysia’s Felda mulls local rubber crop

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

Rubber
FAR EAST: Thailand adds funds to joint rubber venture

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 ...

Rubber
MALAYSIA: Trade in rubber products up 5% to RM19 billion

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 ...

Rubber
KOREA (SOUTH): Kumho Tires wins Red Dot Award

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 ...

Rubber
UNITED STATES: Sasol to license ExxonMobil Technology for Louisiana polyethylene plant

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

Rubber
CHINA: Wison completes plants for PetroChina’s Sichuan Refinery & Petrochemical Complex

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

Rubber
INDONESIA: PTTGC nears USD 5 billion joint venture with Pertamina

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

Rubber
INDONESIA: Titan delays construction of naphtha cracker plant

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