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At this year’s JEC World, taking place from 4 to 6 March 2025 in Paris, ENGEL is involved in three products that have been selected as finalists for the JEC Innovation Awards. The Austrian injection molding machine manufacturer, headquartered in Schwertberg, impressively demonstrates the capabilities of its innovative injection molding technologies for lightweight construction.

Tiger Infrastructure is partnering with Bolder to provide growth capital to enable the buildout of new facilities.

Bolder’s existing operating facility in Maryville, Missouri has commercialized its proprietary process for transforming end-of-life tires into recovered carbon black, an essential raw material in tires, rubber, and plastics for which demand is growing globally. The Company’s BolderBlack® products help some of the largest brands in the world increase their use of sustainable materials and are currently found in such varied applications as tires, wetsuits, roofing products, belts, hoses, construction piping, phone cases, and automotive parts.

The 160-metre long production line at its plant in the AMTZ Medtech Park is operating to its capacity of 1 million gloves a day and fed raw material sourced from Korea and Thailand. Another line is to be added in November and a third in March 2026. Both additional lines will have a capacity of 1 million gloves a day each, Wadi Surgicals’ founder-directors Shaaz Mehmood and Ishaan Dodhiwala said during a media interaction here on Wednesday.

Michelin strengthens and expands REMIX® 2 to the MICHELIN X MULTI range, the most versatile and best-selling range in Europe. Following on from the X INCITY range for urban transport and the X WORKS range for use on rugged terrain, a second premium hot retreading process is now available for X MULTI sizes 315/70 R 22.5 and 315/80 R 22.5.

Michelin offers its customers a second premium nominative hot retread by collecting their casings and returning them retreaded as REMIX® 2. The expanded REMIX® 2 range is available in France, Benelux, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, Spain and Portugal.

Ford Motor Company is returning to the top tier of prototype sports car racing in the FIA World Endurance Championship (FIA WEC) in 2027 looking to recapture the magic and success of Ford racing nearly 60 years ago.

Ford Performance will lead the charge with a full factory team entering FIA WEC with the aim of once more taking on the sport’s most demanding race – the 24 Hours of Le Mans.

TPE materials, which have long been used in food contact, but also in many other areas such as consumer goods, medicine, pharmaceuticals, and a number of other industries, are once again of great importance here because they are “naturally” free of plasticizers and therefore also BPA-free. TPEs are food-compliant and, thanks to their processing technology, conserve resources and save energy. TPE materials in food contact have been in use for almost 50 years. One of the pioneers is Actega.

The International Institute for Nanocomposites Manufacturing (IINM), based in WMG at the University of Warwick, celebrated its 10th anniversary in November 2024. This milestone marked a decade of groundbreaking research and innovation in polymer processing and nanocomposite manufacturing. Engelmann & Buckham (E&B), a leading provider of laboratory equipment.
Equipment supplied includes the MonTech D-RPA 3000 Dynamic Rubber Process Analyzer, which offers unmatched precision in static and dynamic rubber analysis, the MonTech P-VS 3000 Sample Cutter for consistency in sample preparation, the MonTech CP3000 Bale Cutter for cutting polymer bales, blocks, and rubber sheets with precision, the MonTech Fatigue Tester FT 3000 CH for evaluating rubber compound durability under various conditions, and the 2 Roll Mill and other laboratory tools for mixing, blending, and testing rubber compounds under varied temperature conditions.

Ford’s new Explorer and Capri electric SUVs come factory-fitted exclusively with Continental tires. The US automotive manufacturer has approved the EcoContact 6 Q summer tires in 19, 20 and 21-inch sizes for both vehicle models. For use in all seasons, Ford has also issued an original equipment approval for the AllSeasonContact all-weather tires in 19-inch size

Beacon MedTech Solutions announced that Phil Littlefield will serve as director of operations, effective immediately. With a track record of success in global manufacturing, medical device production and Lean Six Sigma practices, Littlefield will lead Beacon MedTech’s operations organization in developing new processes, driving continuous improvement initiatives and implementing best practices to further accelerate customer timelines, quality and efficiency.

From March 4-6, 2025, UTH GmbH will present its state-of-the-art rubber processing technologies at the renowned international Tire Technology Expo in Hannover. With a focus on sustainability and efficiency, UTH is setting new standards in the tire industry by combining high quality with cost efficiency.