Adhesive technologies provider 3M has announced the expansion of its Scotch Recycled Corrugate Tape line with the addition of an industrial packaging tape, 3072. 3M US marketing manager Brian Kenady said companies are looking for new ways ...
Tags: 3M, Packaging Tape
Rubber flooring is used in many applications, from industrial to residential. Recently, the popularity of rubber flooring has been on the rise because of its versatility and durability. However, it is also because rubber flooring, at least ...
Tags: Rubber Floors, floors
The average price of Asian butadiene sank 18% month on month in April to $1,431.25/mt FOB Korea due to weak demand from China and an oversupply of synthetic rubber, Platts data showed Thursday. The monthly average was down a sharp 58% ...
Tags: Asian Butadiene, Weak Demand
China's Q1 imports of butadiene soared by 162% to 136,239 mt against 52,081 mt in the corresponding three months of 2012, General Administration of Customs data released late Tuesday showed. But the surge in China's imports has dampened ...
Tags: Butadiene Imports, Butadiene
China imported 147,733 mt of synthetic rubber in March, up 44% from the 102,368 mt imported in February and up 10% from 134,590 mt imported in March 2012, preliminary data released Wednesday by the General Administration of Customs showed. ...
Tags: Synthetic Rubber, Chemicals
Lanxess, a Germany-based speciality chemicals group, is planning many chemical production projects in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) region. Lanxess vice president and managing director Elie Saad was quoted by MEED as saying that the ...
Tags: Lanxess, chemicals operations, chemicals
China Customs announced recently, China’s natural rubber (including rubber latex) import quantity was 150,000 tons in February, declined 40.0% compared to 250,000 tons of last month, with the same level of last year. From January to ...
Tags: China, natural rubber, February
Asian butadiene prices hit a more than six month high Monday on tight availability amid the startup of new synthetic rubber plants in China and higher naphtha feedstock costs. Butadiene prices surged 44% from a 2012 low of $1,455/mt FOB ...
Tags: butadiene prices, synthetic rubber, Asian naphtha prices
Versalis, owned by Italian energy group Eni, said Monday it has teamed up with US-based Yulex for a biorubber production project in Europe. The project will cover the entire manufacturing chain from crop science to biorubber ...
German chemicals company Evonik said Friday it will be expanding output of C4-based products, including butadiene, methyl tertiary butyl ether and 1-butene, at its Antwerp, Belgium and Marl, Germany, sites. Butadiene production in ...
Tags: Evonik, chemicals, company news
New York City-based private equity firm SK Capital Partners, in partnership with global investment firm First Reserve Corp., has acquired TPC Group Inc. — a Houston-based producer of value-added products derived from niche ...
Tags: SK Capital Partners, First Reserve Corp, value-added products
SteelGuru, the leading website for steel, metal and mining industry with 150,000 page views per day and 75,000 plus registered users for its E mail based news letter Steel Trade Today, has added yet another value added service for its ...
Tags: steel, metal, mining industry, SteelGuru
Taipei,Dec.19,2012(CENS)--Kenda Tires Co.'s chairman Y.M.Yang pointed out that to become a top-20 tire maker globally,the firm will invest NT$3 billion(US$100 million)in 2013 to expand plants in China and Taiwan,as well as merging the seven ...
Tags: Kenda Tires, expand plants, Revenues
China's Panjin Ethylene Industry Corp. raised its butadiene offers by Yuan 300($48)/mt, or about 3%, to Yuan 11,310/mt ex-tank, effective Monday, local end-users said. This is PEIC's first price hike after slashing prices on five ...
Tags: PEIC, butadiene prices, Chemical Industry
It will not be wrong to say that the world has been revolutionized today as rubber is being used extensively.Though rubber is renewable,yet the effects that the burning of rubber-made products inflicts on the environment are also not ...
Tags: recycling of rubber