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Polestar, the Swedish electric performance car company, is accelerating its work to eliminate greenhouse gas emissions by welcoming new partners to the Polestar 0 project, among them is the polymer compounder HEXPOL TPE.

The European Commission, which proposes EU laws and supervises the way they are enacted, suggested last year that the legislation covered soy, cattle, palm oil, wood, cocoa and coffee.
Under the position adopted Tuesday, lawmakers also want to include pig meat, sheep and goats, poultry, maize and rubber, as well as charcoal and printed paper products.

Teijin Frontier Co., Ltd., the Teijin Group’s fibers and products converting company, announced that it has developed an eco-friendly tire cord made from an adhesive that does not contain resorcinol formaldehyde (RF), which is harmful to the human body and the environment, and also incorporates a low-environmental impact chemically recycled polyester fiber for rubber reinforcement. According to the company, this is the world’s first commercialization of a tire cord that combines an RF-free adhesive and a chemically recycled polyester fiber.

The new standard (D8471) covers raw materials, formulation, and mixture procedures for the evaluation and quality control of silica and related technologies, such as silanes and functionalized polymers, in a standardized rubber compound.

Synthos has announced that it can no longer operate its Emulsion-SBR (ESBR) production at full capacity in light of current developments in connection with natural gas supplies from Russia to Europe and the resulting unsustainable and unpredictable utility costs that are a direct result of the geopolitical situation and the Russian invasion.

The Rubber Division, ACS announced that several hotels in their room block have already sold out and that housing closes September 20th, so book your hotel reservation before it’s too late.

Kordsa has decided to expand the tire cord dipping line at its North American facilities to meet the increase in demand of tire manufacturers. The additional dipping line will be implemented at the facility through an investment of USD20 million, which is anticipated to become operational in 2024. The new investment will boost the Company’s annual cord fabric production capacity by 19 kilotons

Mitsui Chemicals, Inc. announced plans to bolster capacity at its Singapore-based wholly owned subsidiary Mitsui Elastomers Singapore Ltd. by building a new plant to produce the high-performance elastomer Tafmer. The new plant will be located at the company’s Jurong Island plant site and will add 120,000 metric tons per year (m.t./yr) of Tafmer capacity once the plant is complete in 2024.

As part of the project, Ecore is purchasing an existing building in Ozark, which it will equip to reclaim the rubber from used truck tires and use the rubber to manufacture flooring and surfacing products.