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The agreement is a joint venture partnership with Medeco Protective Safety Equipment Manufacturing — a division of Abu Dhabi Medical Devices Company (ADMD) in the United Arab Emirates — and contracts USMGC to manufacture 12 of its proprietary medical exam glove-making machines. Beginning in the first quarter of 2025, USMGC will deliver 10 nitrile exam glove machine lines and two polyisoprene surgical glove machine lines to Medeco facilities in operation in Saudi Arabia. The joint venture is structured for USMGC to retain a 25% ownership stake.

The Momentive Performance Materials group (Momentive) and Safic-Alcan announced the expansion of their distribution agreement. This strategic expansion will enhance the availability of Niax high-quality polyurethane additives for slabstock foams across Eastern Europe.

Birla Carbon released its 12th annual sustainability report titled – Sustainability In Action. The 2024 report highlights the company’s commitment to achieving net zero carbon emissions by 2050 through substantial advancements in Continua™ Sustainable Carbonaceous Material (SCM) and prioritizing the focus on its net zero 4Rs strategy – Research, Reduce, Replace, and Repurpose to achieve lower carbon emissions.

Hankook Tire is supplying the specially matched Ventus S1 evo Z UUHP (ultra ultra-high performance) tire as original equipment for the new BMW M5.

The brief for the high-performance saloon, now in its seventh model generation, was a meticulously tuned tire. The reason the tires need to meet special requirements is due to the introduction of an electrified drive system in the luxury-class model from BMW M GmbH for the first time in its 40-year history. These requirements include a high load capacity for effortless handling of the PHEV (plug-in hybrid) model. On the other hand, the excellent grip was required to transmit the system output from the V8 engine and electric machine of 535 kW/727 PS, as well as the maximum system torque of 1,000 Newton meters to the road in a controlled manner.

The German magazine “AUTO BILD Allrad” has tested whether all-season tires can also be a safe tire choice for 4×4 vehicles – and answered “yes”. Ten tire models from European, Asian, and American manufacturers in the size 245/45 R 18 100 Y were asked to test a 4×4 Cupra Formentor. After 14 tests, Continental’s AllSeasonContact 2 came out on top with the top rating of “exemplary” and an overall score of 1.2, with the experts from Germany praising its balance and good driving dynamics in all weather conditions.

The European Council agreed to amending the EU deforestation regulation, delaying its implementation by 12 months. This extension will provide third countries, member states, operators, and traders adequate time to prepare for their due diligence obligations. These obligations require ensuring that certain commodities and products sold in or exported from the EU are deforestation-free. This includes products made from cattle, wood, cocoa, soy, palm oil, coffee, rubber, and some of their derived products.

The rubber factory KRAIBURG Elastik GmbH & Co. KG is part of the UN campaign “Vision 2045”, a series of mini-documentaries that celebrate the 100th anniversary of the United Nations in 2045 and showcase global companies that are already taking action today and inspiring action to achieve the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2045.

Malaysia’s Department of Statics reports that natural rubber (NR) production decreased by 5.2 percent in August 2024 (35,979 tons) as compared to July 2024 (37,960 tons). Year-on-year comparison showed that the production of NR increased by 14.9 per cent (August 2023: 31,309 tons). Production of NR in August 2024 for Malaysia was mainly contributed by small holders sector (88.1%) as compared to estates sector (11.9%).

API Tire announces the expansion of its Consumer Sales leadership team with the appointment of Daniel Greear as Director of Consumer Sales – Central Region and Richey Aiken as Director of Consumer Sales – East Region. Shawn Dunn, a long-standing member of the API Tire family, will complete the Consumer Sales team as Director of Consumer Sales – West Region.

The Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd., announced that it is supplying its BluEarth-Van RY55 tires as original equipment (OE) to Honda Motor Co., Ltd. for use on the automaker’s new commercial-use mini-EV (electric vehicle), N-VAN e:, which will be launched in Japan in October 2024. The N-VAN e: is being equipped with 145/80R13 82/80N LT size tires.