Birmingham Fastener announced the acquisition of Champion Sales and Manufacturing, Inc., a leading rubber gasket company based in Magnolia, Texas. With over 100 years of combined experience in the rubber gasket industry, the acquisition strengthens Birmingham Fastener’s waterworks product offering and manufacturing diversity. Most importantly, it allows us to add teammates to our world-class staff.
Read MoreAs announced on March 3, 2022, BASF has not conducted new business in Russia and Belarus, in light of the war of aggression against Ukraine ordered by the Russian government. BASF strongly condemns the Russian attack on Ukraine and the violence against the civilian population.
Read MoreSince 1999, Goodyear has engaged Northeast Ohio middle and high school students to explore opportunities in STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) disciplines. That tradition continues Saturday, April 30, at Firestone Community Learning Center in Akron with the annual middle school STEM Career Day.
Read MoreDYNASOL Group announced that it has decided to increase its production capacity in Santander, Spain, by installing a brand-new line to produce styrene-butadiene rubber (SSBR).
Read MoreHouston, TX – Orion Engineered Carbons announced it aspires to align its sustainability objectives with the Paris Climate Agreement and strive to achieve net-zero emissions of greenhouse gases by 2050. The net-zero ambition demonstrates Orion’s ongoing commitment to address global climate change while meeting customers’ needs for highly engineered materials essential for tires, coatings, batteries and numerous other everyday products.
Read MoreTrelleborg Sealing Solutions is supporting manufacturers with iCast™ LSR, a new fast and flexible digital manufacturing process for product development and small batch production of Liquid Silicone Rubber (LSR) parts.
Trelleborg’s unique iCastTM LSR process offers a cost-effective way for manufacturers to develop product variations or try out different design concepts before investing in serial production tools. In addition, the process enables the start of pre-series and series production with small batches, to close the gap between low and high-volume production.
ACE Products & Consulting, an ISO/IEC 17025-accredited rubber laboratory service provider, is changing its name to ACE Laboratories, effective April25. The change reflects ACE’s significant growth and the expansion of its extensive testing, consulting, research and development capabilities
Read MoreThe Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd., announced that it has developed a technology that detects the wear condition of passenger car tires by analyzing sensing waveforms transmitted by a proprietary signal processing technology from a sensor attached to the tire’s inner surface that is being jointly developed with Alps Alpine Co., Ltd.
Read Moreutomotive industry owing to its insulation property, and will propel the growth of the market during the forecast period, states Fortune Business Insights, in a report, titled “Rubber Market Size, Share and Industry Analysis, By Type (Natural, and Synthetic), By Application (Tire, Non-Tire Automotive, Footwear, Industrial Goods, and Others), and Regional Forecast, 2020-2027.” The market size stood at USD 40.77 billion in 2019
Read Morein-person. CEUs are available on many of our courses. All Rubber Division, ACS courses are free for undergraduate Student Members (discount for masters & graduate Student Members).
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