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Ravago has announced the global rebranding of its premium brand of reprocessed elastomers under one common product standard, Ravaflex™. The brand name itself means sustainability, reliability, performance, quality, and value. Ravago manufactures reprocessed rubber in Belgium, Saudi Arabia and the United States and is the industry leader in high-value reprocessed elastomers. Ravaflex is manufactured to exact customer specifications, which creates a consistent, quality product, offering cost reduction and sustainability solutions.

Effective July 1, 2022, or as customer contracts allow, the WACKER Group is to raise its prices for dispersions, resins and dispersible polymer powders sourced from its production sites in Europe. Prices for these products will be increased by up to 10 percent.

Orlando, FL — Ravago has announced the global rebranding of its premium brand of reprocessed elastomers under one common product

Brenntag announces the partnership with the Al-Azzaz Chemicals Company via a 75/25 joint venture. While Brenntag has been active in Saudi Arabia, this joint venture greatly expands the company’s presence and footprint with one of the largest speciality chemicals distributors on the Arabian Peninsula.

Lego will invest more than $1 billion to build a factory in the United States – part of a plan to shorten supply chains and keep up with growing demand in one of its biggest markets.

Yokohama Tire announced major plans to celebrate the 100th running of the legendary Broadmoor Pikes Peak International Hill Climb, including sponsoring and securing a position as the exclusive tire supplier of The Porsche Pikes Peak Trophy by Yokohama for the fifth straight year – all the Porsche Cayman GT4 Clubsport vehicles will be competing on ADVAN A052® tires.

ENGEL has opened a new customer technical center at the large machine plant in St. Valentin. With a great number of large injection molding machines on show for a diverse range of uses, ENGEL now offers its customers an even greater opportunity to get to know and test products and technologies by ENGEL in an environment that is close to real life. The focus of this extended offering is on energy efficiency, digitalization and the circular economy.

Bridgestone Americas (Bridgestone) and Dow have partnered to develop B-SEALS, a recyclable, silicone-based tire sealant technology. The extended mobility solution will be introduced at the upcoming 2022 Silicone Expo in Detroit (June 21-23), and represents more than four years of joint research and development between the two companies.

The Rubber Division, ACS is asking for your help to extend their outreach to Chemical Engineering, Chemistry and Engineering students who have expressed an interest in the polymer industry; however, don’t have polymer focused programming at their college/university. This is a new audience ther are working to reach – undergraduate students who do not attend schools where the division has student chapters. We need to make all aspects of our industry known to these students and there is no better way to achieve that than to bring several of them to our International Elastomer Conference. This is a great opportunity for these students to gain more knowledge specific to our industry, make connections, and show them how amazing our industry is and why they should be a part of it! The Division is seeking support to assist with covering several student’s hotel, meal and transportation costs, so they can make this possible. The number of students then can bring depends on the support received.