Helsinki – The European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) has launched a 60-day consultation on a draft opinion covering the proposed restriction of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), inviting ...

Industry (STA) has reported broadly flat full-year revenue for 2025, as higher rubber volumes and a fourth-quarter rebound partially offset weaker price ...

Evonik has launched a new “innovation factory” unit to accelerate the transition of research projects into industrial applications, as part of a realignment ...

Pirelli is planning to increase its stake in the Shenzhou tire manufacturing joint venture with China's Hixih Rubber Industry Group as part of a move to expand it ...

Guangzhou, China – Wanli Tire Co. Ltd. has submitted an environmental impact assessment (EIA) for the third phase of its development project in Guangzhou, which will add capacity for 6 million ...

Milan – Pirelli has expanded its ultra-high-performance offering to the replacement market, making its P Zero R and P Zero Trofeo RS sport tires available beyond original equipment fitments. The tires ...

Kuraray has announced price hikes across a number of its products, citing rising feedstock and logistics costs. The Japanese group will increase prices by $0.66/kg for i ...

Tokyo – Natural rubber futures have declined across major Far East exchanges, “on long liquidation as the recent rally faded,” according to Japan Exchange Group (JPX). Over the week ended 20 March, ...

Hyogo, Japan – Toyo Tire Corp. has broken ground on a new R&D centre in Serbia, as part of a strategy to strengthen its European and consolidate research, production and sales functions at a single ...

Wacker Chemie AG has expanded its Panagarh site in northeastern India to produce silicone emulsions, as it moves to position the facility as a key silicones su ...

The improvements follow restructuring steps centred on the closure of Denka Performance Elastomer (DPE), the group’s chloroprene rubber production unit in LaPlace, Louisiana, which halted operations ...

India’s Directorate General of Trade Remedies (DGTR) has concluded its probe into the imports of emulsion styrene butadiene rubber (E-SBR) 1500 series from the EU, ...