Japan will begin buying rubber from Myanmar producers next month if it meets the quality standards required by its market, according to the Myanmar Rubber ...

The Indonesian rubber industry is in dire need of a boost, as investment in and exports of the commodity struggle to improve amid declining rubber prices. ...

This year’s rubber exports are estimated to reach 1 million tonnes, worth 1.8-2 billion USD, marking a decline of 10 % in volume compared to 2013, the ...

Assocomaplast, the Italian trade association, belonging to Confindustria, which groups to-gether some 160 machinery manufacturers, has published its latest ...

Trelleborg has signed an agreement to divest a facility that manufactures rubber boots for light vehicles. The business operation is based in Spain and is part ...

Bayer AG has announced its plans to divest the MaterialScience business. The company said it wants to focus on life science with its business units HealthCare ...

ZF Friedrichshafen AG and TRW Automotive Holdings Corp. on 15 September 2014 announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement under which ZF will ...

The International Rubber Study Group (IRSG) announced that two new members, Agropecuaria Caucho S. A. and LG Chem Ltd., have joined the IRSG Panel of Associates.

In September 2014, the Hamburg-based German company Lehmann & Voss & Co. KG (LuV) acquired the majority shareholding in the US company Performance Compounding. ...

Baton Rouge-based chemical maker Albemarle and global manufacturer ICL, based in Tel Aviv, have formed a joint venture to produce ICL's FR-122P polymeric flame ...

Effective from 1 April 2014, Heinz Gaub has taken over the position as Managing Director Technology and Engineering at Arburg. He succeeds Herbert Kraibühler, ...

Gangus Plastic Vertriebsge­sellschaft m.b.H. with headquarters in Salzburg, an affiliate of Albis Plastic GmbH, has been renamed to Albis Plastic ...

The Lanxess High Performance Elastomers (HPE) unit has transferred its distribution business in Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovakia to Krahn Chemie Polska. ...

The emulsion polymer manufacturer Synthomer plc announced a new national distribution agreement for the UK market with Cornelius Group plc. Effective from 1 ...

Ube Industries said in May 2014 that it has completed construction on a 16,000 t/y expansion of its synthetic rubber manufacturing facilities at its Chiba ...

The European umbrella association for plastics and rubber machinery manufacturers, Euromap, is planning to introduce an energy label for plastics and rubber ...

As the first ever Global Rubber Confab to be held in Sri Lanka is announced on 28 August, the country has positioned its historic rubber industry to be a USD 3 ...

The mould release agents and casting lubricants producer Chem-Trend, together with Klüber Lubrication, both part of the Munich-based German Freudenberg Chemical ...

Effective 1 October 2014, or as contracts allow, Cabot Corporation will increase prices, up to 8 % globally, for speciality carbon products.

The German company awetis engineering+manufacturing GmbH has recently established the subsidiary awetis manufacturing group corporation (amg) in the US state of ...

The Business Line Interface & Performance of Evonik Industries AG is increasing the prices of its products effective 1 October 2014, by up to 10 % or as ...

Amyris, Inc. and Kuraray Co., Ltd. announced the expansion and extension of their ongoing collaboration in polymer products using Biofene, Amyris’s brand of ...

Cheng Shin Rubber Industry Co., the world’s ninth-largest tire maker, said it expects that spending more on research and development (R&D) at its operation in ...

Dairy Home, a leading dairy producer, has agreed to use bioplastics for all of its yoghurt packaging, in a deal struck with NatureWorks Asia Pacific, an ...

Zeon Corporation, a leading supplier of synthetic rubber with headquarters in Tokyo, Japan, has begun full-scale commercial production of solution-polymerised ...

The Polish company Synthos S. A. is planning to build a neodymium polybutadiene rubber (Nd-BR) plant at the Triunfo Petrochemical Complex in Rio Grande do Sul, ...

The German company Küttner GmbH in Römerberg/Speyer, which was acquired in January 2013 by Biesterfeld Plastic GmbH, will act as an independent business segment ...

Al Waha Petrochemicals Co., a subsidiary of Sahara Petrochemicals Co., has restarted production at its Jubail, Saudi Arabia, complex after a 17 Aug. 2014 ...

Industries Qatar (IQ) announced that plans for the Al Sejeel petrochemical complex have been put on hold and that a new downstream petrochemical project that is ...

Deputy Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin has urged rubber glove industry players to take full advantage of the growing global market opportunities by ...

NatureWorks will make a decision this year on whether to proceed with plans to build a new 13-billion baht Ingeo polylactic acid (PLA) plant in Rayong Province, ...

Leading South Korean petrochemical companies, during a meeting with Energy Minister Yoon Sang-jick, have agreed to increase their investments this year in order ...

The Sri Lanka government is planning to introduce a guaranteed price for rubber to protect the smallholders from negative price fluctuations in the market.

Quantum Petrochemical has broken ground in Ibeno, Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria, on a USD 1.5-billion complex that will produce a range of petrochemicals including ...

Saltic LLC FZC’s chlor-alkali and ethylene dichloride (EDC) project in Oman could be abandoned following Oman Power and Water Procurement Co.’s (OPWP) decision ...

International Polymers Co. has started up its 200,000-t/y ethylene vinyl acetate (EVA) and low-density polyethylene (LDPE) plant in Jubail, Saudi Arabia.

Sri Lanka, the world's 6th largest exporter and 8th largest natural rubber producing country, will be hosting the 4th Global Rubber Conference (GRC 2014), one ...

Col Winthai Suvaree, deputy spokesman of the National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO), allayed farmers' concerns that the release of government rubber would ...