Tokyo – Mitsui Chemicals has started commercial operations at its new Tafmer polyolefin elastomers (POE) plant on Jurong Island, Singapore, the Japanese company has announced. The facility, rated at ...

JK Tyre & Industries has announced a phased capital expenditure plan of about $530 million (€454 million) to expand its truck & bus radial (TBR) and passenger car ...

Helsinki – More than 3,500 comments were submitted during a 60 day consultation on the draft opinion of the European Chemicals Agency’s Committee for Socio Economic Analysis (SEAC) on the proposed ...

Rome, Italy – Pirelli North America has launched the group’s first closed-loop recycling initiative, recovering manufacturing scrap tires and using the resulting materials in the production of new ...

The renewed partnership, announced 21 May, extends cooperation on laboratory testing equipment and materials analysis software used across the Swedish polymer group's quality and product development ...

Houston, Texas – Orion SA chief executive Corning Painter has criticised the EU’s emissions trading system (ETS), arguing that the policy overlooks the “basic realities of chemistry, physics and ...

Carpinteria, California – Freudenberg Medical LLC is set to close its production plant in Carpinteria by the end of June as part of a move to consolidate its California operations under one roof.

Tyres Europe has welcomed the European Commission’s draft revisions to the EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) and called for “swift adoption” of the regulation ...

Chennai, India – TVS Srichakra Ltd. has approved capital expenditure of up to INR2.2 billion (€20 million) to expand production capacity at its manufacturing complex in Vellaripatti, Madurai, in the ...

Natural rubber futures ended the final trading week of May higher across all exchanges, supported by “fresh speculative buying” on the Shanghai Futures Exchange (SHF ...

Novi, Michigan – Cooper Standard is closing a second automotive parts production plant in Ohio as part of efficiency measures to optimise its manufacturing footprint. In a 13 May statement, the US ...

Frankfurt, Germany – Germany's chemical and pharmaceutical industry made “a weak start to 2026,” with production falling sharply amid geopolitical tensions, rising costs and mounting competitive ...