Rubber News

Established in 1971, Rubber News focuses on serving manufacturers in the rubber industry. Its primary audience includes those involved in making tires and inner tubes, rubber and plastic shoes, reclaimed rubber, hoses and belts made from rubber and plastic, custom rubber products, rubber adhesives, as well as wire and cable items.

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Gates hoses can take the heat from AI, data center systems

2 days ago | rubbernews.com | Andrew Schunk

TAMPA, Fla.—The hose industry has reached the tipping point in data center applications, a major growth market that was top-of-mind at the distributor-oriented NAHAD April 13-15. Denver-based Gates Corp., whose fluid power segment accounts for approximately 38 percent ($1.3 billion) of Gates $3.4 billion, is ready for the cooling hose revolution.
KIH brings speed-to-market mentality to NAHAD, Salt Lake City

3 days ago | rubbernews.com | Andrew Schunk

TAMPA, Fla.—Disaster relief efforts demand speed-to-market, itself achieved through proximity to customers and well-crafted sales channels. Key Industrial Hose L.L.C. checks both boxes, shipping pre-made hose assemblies from its 150,000-sq.-ft. headquarters in Enterprise, Ala., to a major network of distributors who assist in both man-made and natural emergencies.
Denka suspends U.S. chloroprene production, considers sale of business

3 days ago | rubbernews.com | Andrew Schunk

LAPLACE, La.—Denka Co. Ltd. suspended production of chloroprene for synthetic rubber applications at Denka Performance Elastomer L.L.C., its U.S. subsidiary, citing a major loss of about $109 million (16.1 billion yen) for its fiscal year ending March 25. Tokyo-based Denka Co., which owns 70 percent of DPE in Louisiana, is the only U.S. producer of chloroprene, used to make neoprene.
Rubber product suppliers find space in aerospace

1 week ago | rubbernews.com | Andrew Schunk

Non-tire rubber products in aerospace comprise a small percentage—about $2 billion—of the nearly $400 billion global aerospace market. They are no less critical to passenger safety and comfort than the airframes from Boeing, avionics from Garmin or engines from Pratt and Whitney.
Silicone trends maintain upward momentum despite tariffs

1 week ago | rubbernews.com | Andrew Schunk

The silicone trends of the future have arrived, tariffs in tow. More accurately, the future has arrived for silicone—at once an unchanged material since it was commercialized in the 1940s and an endlessly progressive solution for modern engineering problems.
EPA budget to speed chemical approvals but dampen research on PFAS, pollutants

1 week ago | rubbernews.com | Steve Toloken

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has announced a reorganization it says is aimed at reducing its backlog in approving new chemicals, while environmentalists are criticizing steep cuts in overall EPA spending that they say will "tear down" the agency.
Engel expanding machinery production in Mexico

1 week ago | rubbernews.com | Stephen Downer

MEXICO CITY—Engel Holding GmbH is ramping up production at a new manufacturing facility in central Mexico to supply markets across the Americas. Located in Querétaro, 120 miles north of Mexico City, the "newly acquired" facility will manufacture the e-mac (all-electric small machine) and Wintec t-win (hydraulic, two-platen large machine) series, as well as custom robots and automation solutions.
Plastics, CPG firms seek ‘responsible' chemical recycling standard

2 weeks ago | rubbernews.com | Steve Toloken

CHARLOTTE, N.C.—A group of plastics companies and consumer goods makers are developing responsible production standards for chemical recycling, hoping to address public questions about the environmental and social impacts of the technology.
Most sales jump double digits in April as consumers grab deals ahead of expected tariffs

2 weeks ago | rubbernews.com | David Phillips |Larry P. Vellequette

U.S. sales rose sharply in April at many auto makers as consumers rushed to lock in pricing and took advantage of employee-pricing discounts ahead of expected tariff-driven price increases. Deliveries last month rose 19 percent at Hyundai and 14 percent at Kia, the companies reported May 1. It was the seventh consecutive month of record year-over-year sales for both brands, the Korean auto makers said.
Doug Wilson of LCY Elastomers will lead synthetic rubber producers association

2 weeks ago | rubbernews.com | Bruce Meyer

DUBLIN, Ireland—The International Institute of Synthetic Rubber Producers has chosen an executive from LCY Elastomers L.P. as its president-international until next year's Annual General Meeting (AGM). Douglas Wilson is general manager of the Americas business for LCY Elastomers L.P., with profit and loss responsibility for all aspects of the firm's styrenic block copolymer business in North and South America, including the Baytown, Texas, manufacturing operation.