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Gaining another global supply agreement with a major equipment manufacturer, MAXAM is to provide the AGRIXTRA business solution to New Holland Agriculture. Achieving an agricultural equipment manufacturer’s (OEM) approval is a major milestone for the MAXAM brand since the launch of the AGRIXTRA series in 2014.

Royal DSM confirmed its resolution to declare a dividend for the financial year 2021 of €2.50 per ordinary share at its Annual General Meeting of Shareholders. This represents an increased dividend versus the €2.40 paid for 2020. An interim dividend of €0.80 per ordinary share having been paid in August 2021, the final dividend thus amounts to €1.70 per ordinary share.

The Board of Directors of Cabot Corporation declared a quarterly dividend of $0.37 per share on all outstanding shares of the Corporation’s common stock. The dividend is payable on June 10, 2022, to stockholders of record at the close of business on May 27, 2022.

The Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd., has begun field trials of its marine hoses and conveyor belts with built-in RFID. The field trials, conducted with cooperation from users in Japan and abroad, seek to verify that internal conditions of marine hoses and conveyor belts that cannot be confirmed by normal inspections. Through this trial, Yokohama Rubber will demonstrate that it can remotely detect minute changes of conditions of the products while in operation using its own RFID technology.

The International Rubber Study Group announced that the Vietnam Rubber Group (VRG) has joined the IRSG Panel of Associates. The Vietnam Rubber Group (VRG) was established and has been developing since 1975, under different names

– Birla Carbon has been awarded a Platinum level rating by EcoVadis, an independent sustainability rating agency. This recognition confirms Birla Carbon’s position as an industry leader in advanced sustainability practices and reporting and places it in the top 1% of companies rated by EcoVadis.

The Phnom Penh Post reports that Cambodian rubber exports were valued at $149.80 million in the first four months of 2022, representing an increase of 16.5 per cent year-on-year from $128.58 million, according to the General Department of Customs and Excise (GDCE).

Calspan has instrumented its powerful flat track tire testing machine with Tekscan’s High-Speed TireScan™ pressure mapping sensors to measure tire contact patch pressure distribution in highly dynamic operating conditions on the machine’s flat roadway. On May 19, 2022 at Tire Technology Expo in Germany, the two pioneers in tire testing and pressure measurement will share results and explain how this technology changes the game for tire testing.

COMERIO ERCOLE has signed an exclusive agreement for rubberized calendering process with HERRMANN ULTRASCHALTECHNIK to pursue joint cooperation for a revolutionary technology for the production of carcasses in the rubber calendering field where a tail and head of fabric cords is considered in term of lamination between the two materials. The development work involved the bonding of textile fibers which serve as inserts for the carcasses using ultrasound technology. The innovative joining system has been named ULTRASPLICE®.

– Last year, Michelin announced the introduction of sustainable materials in MotoE™ tires, to the tune of 33% at the front and 40% at the rear. This year, the Michelin development teams have overcome a new challenge by integrating no less than 46% sustainable material in the rear tires, thus allowing for reaching an average rate of 40%, corresponding to the weighted average of the mass of the front and rear tires. This result is clearly in line with the Group’s ambition to reach an average of 40% sustainable materials across all its ranges by 2030. “Although ambitious, this objective remains no less realistic for Michelin. The MotoE™ tires are a new illustration of this.” said Cyrille Roget, Director of technical and scientific communications for the Michelin Group. And he added: “it is mainly in integrating more natural rubber and recycled carbon black in the tires that we have been able to make progress.” Notably, Michelin has joined forces with Enviro to develop and widely industrialize an innovative pyrolysis technology that allows for recuperating certain original components, such as carbon black. The carbon black recycled in this way is reintegrated into the manufacture of new tires.