12.01.2018
- Turkish company Kordsa, a tire cord specialist, broke ground last month on its polyester expansion project in Izmit, Turkey. The additional 7,000 t/y of polyester yarn production...
09.12.2016
- US industrial bioscience company Amyris has agreed a multi-year extension to its farnesene collaboration with long-term partner Kuraray. The agreement relates to the use of Amyris...
More Plastics, Less CO2 - Plastics are playing a pivotal role in the development of "green" vehicles. This is evident, for example, in a lightweight front-end carrier...
04.06.2013
- Lanxess has inaugurated its new butyl rubber plant on Jurong Island in Singapore on schedule. The specialty chemicals company has invested approximately €400 million in the plant...
21.03.2013
- Lanxess, the world's largest synthetic-rubber maker, has warned of a sharp drop in earnings in the first quarter, joining the list of auto suppliers to take a hit from anaemic...
18.01.2013
- Sava based in Ljubljana, Slovenia, one of the more important publicly listed companies in the country, announced the sale of its rubber manufacturing division Sava Technical Rubber...
24.08.2011
- Dow and Lehigh Technologies announced that they have partnered to conduct collaboration targeted at making tires more sustainable. Lehigh Technologies noted that Dow and Lehigh...
21.06.2011
- One of Michelin's three managing partners is set to leave the French tire maker as part of a shake-up under incoming Chief Executive Jean-Dominique Senard, newspaper Le Monde...
