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This symposium highlights emerging technologies that enable improved environmental performance while maintaining or enhancing the mechanical, processing, and durability requirements of demanding rubber applications. Presentations explore sustainable fillers, bio-based processing aids, nanomaterials, recyclable elastomer architectures, life cycle assessment methodologies, and evolving industry standards. Together, these sessions provide attendees with a roadmap for developing high-performance rubber compounds that align with future sustainability and regulatory expectations.

SHIBAURA MACHINE LWB is inviting rubber and plastic processors, as well as injection molders, to the SHIBAURA MACHINE LWB | Next-Level Molding Days on October 28 and 29, 2026, at its European Competence Center in Altdorf near Landshut. Under the theme “Turning Technology into Productivity,” the company will demonstrate how modern injection molding production will become more economical, energy-efficient, and future-proof. The event will focus on the world premiere of the LWB MultiStation automated production cell, which is set to revolutionize rubber manufacturing.

Shareholders at the Extraordinary General Meetin of Akzo Nobel N.V. overwhelmingly voted in favor of all resolutions related to the proposed all-share merger with Axalta Coating Systems Ltd. (“Axalta”).

The resolutions adopted at the EGM include the approval of the Merger, the amendment of the Articles of Association, the authorization to issue shares in connection with the Merger, the proposed appointments to the Board of Directors and the proposed remuneration policy.

H.B. Fuller Company confirmed receipt of an unsolicited proposal from Ancora Holdings Group to acquire its Building Adhesives Solutions (“BAS”) business for between $1.1 billion and $1.2 billion in cash.

Although Ancora previously expressed a passing verbal interest in BAS, the letter received today, simultaneous to the news being made public, represents the first offer that Ancora has made for this business.

The Akron-based tire manufacturer reported a net loss of $204 million, or 71 cents per diluted share, compared with net income of $254 million, or 87 cents per diluted share, during the same period a year earlier.

Adjusted net loss totaled $177 million, or 61 cents per diluted share, compared with an adjusted loss of $48 million, or 17 cents per share, in the second quarter of 2025.

Net sales totaled $4.3 billion, while tire unit volume reached 36.5 million units. Excluding the effects of the company’s divestiture of its chemical business and the sale of the Dunlop brand, organic net sales fell 1.4%.

VMI has been awarded the EcoVadis Platinum Medal, the highest distinction in the globally recognized sustainability assessment. This achievement places VMI among the top 1% of companies assessed worldwide, based on performance across environmental stewardship, ethics, labor and human rights, and sustainable procurement.