The OTR business provides specialized tires for the mining & construction industries among others. The two companies’ agreement on the transaction was announced on July 22, 2024. Yokohama Rubber plans to include the acquired business in its consolidated results from the first quarter of 2025 and is currently examining the addition’s estimated impact on consolidated earnings.
Read MoreThe Rubber Division, ACS announces that Dr. Amit Das will speaking at the Spring Technical Meeting. Amit Das is a senior scientist at the Leibniz Institute for Polymer Research Dresden e. V. (IPF) and is also visiting professor at the Tampere University of Technology (TUT), Finland. He is an expert in the field of bio-inspired elastomer composites, smart-healing elastomers and electro active smart rubbers. Dr. Das was the 2016 recipient of the Sparks-Thomas Award for early career researchers and serves as associate editor of the Rubber Chemistry & Technology journal.
Read MoreThe agreement with Warsaw, Poland-based Contec further enables Orion to diversify its sources of tire pyrolysis oil, commonly known as TPO.
“With the ConPyro® TPO supplied by Contec, Orion will be able to make large-scale volumes of circular grades of carbon black that will supply growing demand from the world’s leading tire and rubber goods producers,” Orion CEO Corning Painter said. “This is yet another way that Orion is accelerating the transition to a circular economy.”
TPE materials, which have long been used in food contact, but also in many other areas such as consumer goods, medicine, pharmaceuticals, and a number of other industries, are once again of great importance here because they are “naturally” free of plasticizers and therefore also BPA-free. TPEs are food-compliant and, thanks to their processing technology, conserve resources and save energy. TPE materials in food contact have been in use for almost 50 years. One of the pioneers is Actega.
Read MoreResearchers from the University of Minho in Portugal started with silicone rubber polymer and added zirconia nanoparticles to make the material attract water molecules. After they rolled the composite material into a thin film, they hardened it with heat and laser-etched a grooved pattern onto the film’s surface that exposed the hydrophilic zirconia nanoparticles. When the film encountered water molecules atop ice, it stuck to the slippery surface because the polymer mimicked the capillary action of slip-resistant gecko footpads.
Read MoreEffective April 1, 2025, Masakazu Tokura will transition from Representative Director and Chairman of the Board to Director and Counselor, Keiichi Iwata will move from Representative Director and President to Representative Director and Chairman of the Board, and Nobuaki Mito will advance from Senior Management Executive Officer to President. It is noted that Masakazu Tokura is expected to resign as Director at the Ordinary General Meeting of Shareholders in June 2025. Following this meeting and the subsequent Board of Directors meeting, Nobuaki Mito will be inaugurated as Representative Director and President.
Read MoreKurita America, part of the Kurita Group, announced its pending merger with sister company, Avista Technologies, Inc. (Avista). This merger will officially take effect on April 1, 2025. Avista, headquartered in San Marcos, California, specializes in membrane treatment solutions and process support for reverse osmosis systems, microfiltration/ultrafiltration and multimedia filtration.
Read MoreThe Valex Group has been awarded the Women’s Business Enterprise (WBE) Certification from the Women’s Business Enterprise National Council (WBENC) this past November. This recognition means so much to Valex Group—not just as a company, but as a team of women making their mark in the rubber industry.
Read MoreThe International Institute for Nanocomposites Manufacturing (IINM), based in WMG at the University of Warwick, celebrated its 10th anniversary in November 2024. This milestone marked a decade of groundbreaking research and innovation in polymer processing and nanocomposite manufacturing. Engelmann & Buckham (E&B), a leading provider of laboratory equipment.
Equipment supplied includes the MonTech D-RPA 3000 Dynamic Rubber Process Analyzer, which offers unmatched precision in static and dynamic rubber analysis, the MonTech P-VS 3000 Sample Cutter for consistency in sample preparation, the MonTech CP3000 Bale Cutter for cutting polymer bales, blocks, and rubber sheets with precision, the MonTech Fatigue Tester FT 3000 CH for evaluating rubber compound durability under various conditions, and the 2 Roll Mill and other laboratory tools for mixing, blending, and testing rubber compounds under varied temperature conditions.
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