Specialty chemicals company LANXESS is raising its prices for adipic acid with immediate effect. The increase amounts to an average of EUR 100 per ton and applies worldwide.
This decision reflects the ongoing, cumulative cost increases. These include significantly higher raw material costs.
Read MoreThe Rubber Division, ACS, announced that Professor Ali Dhinojwala, the University of Akron Gerald W. Austen Endowed Chair and H.A. Morton Professor in the School of Polymer Science and Polymer Engineering, will be the keynote speaker for the Spring Technical Meeting being held in Warrensville Heights, Ohio this starting this April 14.
Read Moreimcorp announces that its Dream Factory tire handling solution has been named “Most Innovative Automation Solution” in the Manufacturing Supplier Innovation Awards US 2025. Presented by Manufacturing Today, the awards celebrate outstanding companies advancing manufacturing through innovation, sustainability, and next-generation technologies. Cimcorp’s Dream Factory was honored for its blend of intelligent software and advanced robotics that enhances efficiency, agility, and performance across tire plants.
Read MoreMichelin announced its full-year financial results for 2025, reporting solid performance amid a challenging global economic environment. The Group achieved significant cash flow generation, strengthened its balance sheet, and continued to advance its long-term strategic priorities under the Michelin in Motion 2030 plan. Michelin delivered €2.9 billion in segment operating income in 2025 and generated strong free cash flow, reinforcing its financial resilience and strategic positioning.
Read MoreFreudenberg Performance Materials (Freudenberg) is returning to the Wire trade fair in Düsseldorf, Germany, after a gap of several years. The experts from the world’s leading supplier of technical textiles are looking forward to presenting their comprehensive range of high-performance tapes for power, data, and specialty cables to visitors at the trade fair and discussing solutions with them at stand D19 in Hall 13 from April 13-17.
Read MoreDrawing on decades of experience and expertise in the bio-based chemicals and materials sector nova-Institute with its renowned biopolymer expert group has become the leading provider of market and trend data on bio-based building blocks and polymers. In addition to publishing annual data on bio-based building blocks and polymers in its well-known report on “Bio based Building Blocks and Polymers – Global Capacities, Production and Trends”, nova-Institute has also been providing data to European Bioplastics (since 2016) and Plastics Europe (since 2023). The data published annually by European Bioplastics and Plastics Europe are taken from the nova-Institute market report, but cover a smaller or different selection of bio-based polymers, based on different scopes.
Read MoreSolvay inaugurated its new bio-circular silica facility at its plant in Livorno, Italy, marking a major milestone in Europe’s industrial transformation toward sustainability. This investment positions Solvay as a proactive partner in achieving the European Green Deal objectives and the upcoming Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation (ESPR), while reinforcing Italy’s role as a hub for green innovation.
Read MoreBFGoodrich is introducing 12 new sizes of the BFGoodrich All-Terrain T/A KO3 tire – the perfect way to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the brand’s Radial All-Terrain T/A tire.
The Radial All-Terrain T/A revolutionized off-road tires and set the stage for the all-terrain tire industry boom. Evolutions of the tire brought about the iconic KO tire line, leading to the KO3 tire that was introduced on May 1, 2024. The final major phase of the launch will come in May 2026.
Read MoreLummus Technology and Sumitomo Chemical announced the commercial availability of their highly-efficient Polymethyl Methacrylate Chemical Recycling (PMMA-CR) technology. This builds on the strategic partnership between Lummus and Sumitomo Chemical, first announced in May 2024, to co-develop and commercialize technologies that support circularity and carbon-neutral society across the petrochemical value chain.
Read MoreThe Hoover Institution’s Technology Policy Accelerator program has been awarded a $2.5 million grant from the Hewlett Foundation to launch the Tech Futures Lab, an initiative designed to better anticipate potential strategic technological surprises and to help the United States strengthen resilience through improved planning and risk management.
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