Arlanxeo announced on February 29 plans to build a hydrogenated nitrile butadiene rubber (HNBR) plant in Changzhou, China. The plant…...
Materials
Synthetic Rubber Production Down 16% in 2023
Synthetic rubber production for 2023 totaled 1,158,183 tons, down 16.0% from the previous year, according to a report by the…...
Michelin Produces France’s First Biomass-derived Butadiene
Michelin, IFP Energies nouvelles, and Axens have opened France’s first industrial-scale prototype facility to produce butadiene derived from biomass at…...
Evonik to Increase Wet Silica Production Capacity in North America
Evonik will increase wet silica production capacity by 50% at its U.S. plant in Charleston, South Carolina, to meet growing…...
Zeon Obtains ISCC PLUS Certification at Four Facilities in Japan
Zeon has acquired ISCC PLUS certification, an international certification system for sustainable products, at four of its Japanese production facilities,…...
Asahi Kasei Reports 9M Results
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…...
