Arlanxeo announced on February 29 plans to build a hydrogenated nitrile butadiene rubber (HNBR) plant in Changzhou, China. The plant will have an annual production capacity of 5,000 tons, and the first phase of construction will produce 2,500 tons of high-quality rubber per year. Operations are scheduled to begin in the third quarter of 2025. Marketed by Arlanxeo under the...
Synthetic rubber production for 2023 totaled 1,158,183 tons, down 16.0% from the previous year, according to a report by the Synthetic Rubber Industry Association. Production of general-purpose rubber, mainly used for tires, fell sharply, with SBR down 10.9% and BR down 15.5%. The Japan Automobile Tire Manufacturers Association (JATMA) reported a 3.4% decline in tire production for the same year....
Michelin, IFP Energies nouvelles, and Axens have opened France’s first industrial-scale prototype facility to produce butadiene derived from biomass at Michelin’s plant in Bassens, near Bordeaux. The facility was built as part of the BioButterfly project, in which the three companies are participating with the support of the French ecological transition agency Adem with the aim of producing butadiene from...
Evonik will increase wet silica production capacity by 50% at its U.S. plant in Charleston, South Carolina, to meet growing demand from the tire, oral care and other industries in North America. The company plans to invest several billion yen to build a new production line, with construction scheduled to begin in mid-2024 and operations to start in early 2026....
Zeon has acquired ISCC PLUS certification, an international certification system for sustainable products, at four of its Japanese production facilities, namely the Takaoka, Kawasaki, Tokuyama and Mizushima plants. The certified products include butadiene, synthetic latex, HNBR (hydrogenated nitrile rubber), BR (butadiene rubber), IR (isoprene rubber), NBR (acrylonitrile butadiene rubber), E-SBR (emulsion polymerization styrene butadiene rubber) and S-SBR (solution polymerization styrene...
Asahi Kasei posted sales of 2,064.15 billion yen ($13.74 billion), up 1.2% year-on-year in the nine months (April-December) of the fiscal year ending March 2024. The company also posted operating income of 99.50 billion yen, down 15.1%, ordinary income of 90.50 billion yen, down 18.9%, and net income of 58.57 billion yen, down 11.0%. In the materials segment, sales declined...
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