Qihang, Tianjin appeal OTR tire duties

NEW YORK—Two more Chinese off-the-road tire manufacturers officially have appealed new duties from the U.S. Department of Commerce, bringing the total to seven. On May 16, Qingdao Qihang also appealed the antidumping determinations and requested remand and other relief. Tianjin United Tire & Rubber International Co. Ltd. filed preliminary docume

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2017/05/22

ANRPC predicts natural rubber shortage

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia—World supply of natural rubber should fall short of demand in 2017, according to the April 2017 issue of Natural Rubber Trends & Statistics, the official publication of the Association of Natural Rubber Producing Countries. The ANRPC projects total world NR supply in 2017 at 12.27 million metric tons, including 11

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2017/05/18

Trelleborg unit appealing OTR tire import duties

NEW YORK—Trelleborg Wheel Systems (Xingtai) Co. Ltd. has followed four other Chinese off-the-road tire manufacturers in appealing stiff new antidumping duties from the U.S. Department of Commerce. Trelleborg filed a complaint with the U.S. Court of International Trade May 15, alleging that Commerce's decisions in its antidumping review of Ch

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2017/05/18

ZC Rubber Builds Eco-friendly Materials R&D Center

ZC Rubber and the Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology & Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, have built a new R&D center for rubber and environmentally-friendly materials. The facility will focus on the development of rubber and materials for smart production, new energy, and green material, ZC Rubber said. “We are pleased to co

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2017/05/16

Triangle Opens its First U.S. Warehouse

Triangle Tire USA has officially announced the opening of its first U.S. warehouse, located in an existing building in Madison, Tenn. The facility will supply OTR, medium/heavy truck, passenger/LT, and ST radial products to its distributor and dealer customers across the U.S. Triangle has contracted with a third-party logistics company, ProAdvantage, to h

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2017/05/13

South Korea President Poises New Threat to Doublestar’s Kumho Tire Buy

Another roadblock may be in the way of Qingdao Doublestar’s acquisition of Kumho Tire. Analysts have found that South Korea’s new president, Moon Jae-in, could prevent the Chinese tiremaker from acquiring the majority share of Kumho Tire. The Korea Times shared that Moon publicly expressed his negative view of the takeover during the South

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2017/05/13

Natural rubber prices continue to slide

LONDON—Natural rubber buyers seemed unswayed by a proposal for new output curbs among the three main producer countries or efforts by supplier bodies to talk up the market, as prices continued to slide in Asian trading centers. In recent weeks, the Association of Natural Rubber Producing Countries and the International Rubber Consortium forecast

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2017/05/11

Technological Innovation by Yiyang Rubber & Plastics Machinery Brought in Major Orders

On March 5, Yiyang Rubber & Plastics Machinery Group Co., Ltd. signed a one-off order of seven large internal mixers with a certain tire company in Shandong. The new products coming from the tandem-type banburying one-step rubber refining production line included in the signed order this time is an outcome of independent and innovative R&D of the

Source: China Rubber Journal

2017/05/11

3517 Developed Sealing Elements with 100 Years’ Service Life

At the start of the new year, good news came from Jihua 3517 Rubber Products CO., LTD: The Ethylene Propylene Diene Monomer rubber sealing element used for ductile cast pipes that has been researched and developed for years by this Company was confirmed to have a service life of up to 139.5 years after several hundred days’ experiments and tests by the

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2017/05/11

Bekaert (Shandong) Expanding Product Capacity of Semi-finished Sawing Wire

Bekaert (Shandong) Tire Cord Co., Ltd. (BSTC) decided to implement the expansion project for the product line of semi-finished sawing wire so as to meet the market demand, which is under public evaluation for project environmental impact. This project, located in BSTC’s factory, is said to make use of the existing vacant plant to produce 1,200 tons

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2017/05/11

Riverstone’s Latex Gloves Project Received Approval

Recently, Riverstone Resources (Wuxi) Co., Ltd. received the approval document for its renovation and extension project concerning 150 million cleanroom gloves and 300 million finger-stalls from the Department of Environmental Protection. The total project investment is 2.3 Million Yuan, in which the investment in environmental protection is 40 Thousand Y

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2017/05/11

Thailand Indorama’s Polyester Industrial Yarn Factory Put into Construction

Thailand Indorama Ventures Public Co., Ltd. announced on February 26 that its high performance fiber factory had been put into construction in Kaiping City, Guangdong Province. The project is said to be capable of producing 18,000 tons of polyester industrial yarn per year and will make the company’s total capacity of polyester tire cord fabrics rea

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2017/05/11

Cooper Group Established a New Company to Produce Fluid Pipes

Cooper Group decided to establish Cooper Standard Fluid System (Kunshan) Co., Ltd. to produce industrial and automotive fluid pipes by renting a plant. This project started in December 2016 and will be completed and enter trial operation in December 2017. The total investment on this project is USD 12 Million, in which USD 500 Thousand is used for environ

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2017/05/11

Qingdao Dongil Rubber Belt to Expand Capacity of Rubber Compound and Rubber Products

Qingdao Dongil Rubber Belt Co., Ltd. planned to expand the capacity of rubber compound and rubber products, including caterpillar bands and sealing strips with the investment of 120 Million Yuan so as to increase the enterprise market competitiveness and lower the cost. The expansion project covers an area of 12,751 m² in Jimo City, Qingdao. It will

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2017/05/11

ExxonMobil Shanghai Technology Center Added Tire Testing Function

ExxonMobil announced on March 1 to add a modern testing room for tire testing function-Inflation Pressure Loss Rate (IPLR) in Shanghai Technology Center, which can assess the tire pressure loss rate over time. This facility makes the global network layout of ExxonMobil Tire Technical Support Center more reasonable (the other two are located in Baytown, Te

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2017/05/11

Dunlop’s New Wide-base Truck Tire SP261 Came to Market

Recently, Dunlop released its first wide-base tire product in China-SP261 for trailer wheels with the size of 425/65R22.5, which is applicable to middle and long distance fixed-load trucks. As for product structure design, this product is designed with five longitudinal pattern blocks to make sure the stability and good heat dissipation under transport co

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2017/05/11

Cabot Won Shanghai Green Supply Chain “Design & Innovation Award”

On February 28, Shanghai Cabot Chemical Co., Ltd. won Excellent Case 2016 “Design & Innovation Award” by its “Green Cycle” project in the Green Supply Chain 2017 Shanghai Summit hosted by Shanghai Society for Environmental Science, Shanghai Association of Enterprises with Foreign Investment, etc. Since the launch of green suppl

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2017/05/11

Hengshui Fengze Bridge Bearing Won the Bid for Yinchuan-Xi’an Railway (Gansu-Ningxia Part)

Lately, the bridge bearing products of Fengze Engineering Rubber S&T Development Co., Ltd. successfully won the bid for providing bridge bearing products worth RMB 60.0128 Million Yuan in total for the railway from Yinchuan to Xi’an (Gansu-Ningxia part). The cost of the bid-winning project accounts for 31.80% of the annual operating revenue of F

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2017/05/11

Greatoo Invested Heavily in Setting up a Subsidiary in Belgium

On February 21, Greatoo Intelligent Equipment Inc. released an announcement that it had decided to spend EUR 13.60 Million in investing in setting up a wholly-owned subsidiary in Antwerp, Belgium. It is known that Greatoo Company has made a layout in Europe before, which can be seen in Greatoo (Europe) Holding SARL in Luxembourg and ODG Precision Machine

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2017/05/11

Shandong Derek Launched a High-Performance Rubber Chemical Project

Lately, the high-performance rubber Chemical project of Shandong Derek New Materials Co., Ltd. obtained the archival filing confirmation certificate from the Development and Reform Department of Dongying City. According to the archival filing documents, a total of RMB 420 Million Yuan is invested in this project with a construction period from 2017 to 201

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2017/05/11