The Rubber Division ACS will celebrate the 2025 Science & Technology Award winners at a special banquet sponsored by Alpha Technologies during the Spring Technical Meeting. Each award winner will also give a presentation in the technical session following the banquet.
The Spring Technical Meeting will take place at Lake Buena Vista, Florida, (Disney Springs Area) on March 4-6, 2025.
Brenntag announced a strategic distribution agreement for North America with Raveshia Group, a technical manufacturer of inorganic and organic pigments, enabling the further penetration of the pigments market and reach in the inks and coatings industry.
Read MoreBKT becomes the Official Tire Partner of Six Nations Rugby, spanning the Guinness Men’s Six Nations and Guinness Women’s Six Nations, starting with the upcoming 2025 instalments of the Championships.
BKT’s innovative solutions are designed for the most differing user needs. The company’s portfolio includes over 3,600 products sold in over 163 countries worldwide. BKT offers the widest range of Off-Highway tires specially designed for vehicles in the agricultural, industrial, earthmoving, mining, ATV and gardening sectors.
Read MoreuPont announced that DuPont™ MOLYKOTE® HP-300 Grease has successfully met rigorous hydrogen purity standards in accordance with ISO 14687:2019.
Read MoreThe board of directors of Ashland Inc. has declared a quarterly cash dividend of $0.405 cents per share on the company’s common stock. The dividend is payable on March 15, 2025, to stockholders of record at the close of business on March 1, 2025.
Read MoreThe Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd., has begun practical testing of a technology that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to gauge air pressure from the sound made by tapping truck and bus tires. Using AI to gauge tire air pressure from the sound made by tapping the tire, which previously relied on the driver’s experience, will provide logistics companies with solutions to various issues, including safe vehicle operation via improved air-pressure measurement, cost reductions and greater operational efficiency through labor-saving, and raising fuel efficiency by appropriately managing tire air pressure.
Read MoreThe exhibitor database of K 2025, The No. 1 Trade Fair for Plastics and Rubber, is now online at www.k-online.com/2410. Currently, all the main exhibitors can be found there and the co-exhibitors will be gradually added. The fully booked trade fair is again characterized by the participation of international market leaders along the entire value chain. Exhibitors from 61 countries will take part in K and more than 3,000 exhibitors are expected in the 18 exhibition halls.
Read MoreNISSEI’s US production subsidiary was established in November 2016 to provide large-size injection molding machines to the North American market on a stable basis and with short delivery times. The operation of the US factory began in March 2018. As a global supplier of injection molding machines, NISSEI has a management strategy of producing and delivering ideal machines from the nearest production bases to meet demands in each region. NISSEI has followed its strategical plan and established a global production system with five production bases in Japan, China, Thailand, United States, and Italy.
Read MoreOrion S.A. has announced a series of layoffs as part of its preliminary fiscal year 2024 update. The company revealed that it will reduce its non-plant workforce by approximately 6%, a move expected to generate around $6 million in annualized cost savings starting in 2025. This decision comes as Orion faces several financial challenges, including foreign exchange translation impacts and weaker-than-anticipated volumes in its Rubber segment.
Read MoreThe Indian state of Tripura, under the initiative of the Automotive Tyre Manufacturers’ Association (ATMA), has surpassed its five-year rubber cultivation target of 30,000 hectares. The state now aims to expand the plantation to 69,000 hectares, an official announced on Sunday.
The Indian Natural Rubber Operations for Assisted Development (INROAD), supported by ATMA, was launched in 2021 to develop 200,000 hectares of natural rubber plantations in Northeast India and West Bengal over five years. The Rubber Board had set a target of 30,000 hectares for Tripura under this initiative.
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