Milliken to showcase innovations at ArabplastAdditives expert Milliken will showcase its product innovations and service solutions at the upcoming Arabplast 2013, the international plastic and rubber industry trade show and conference in Dubai. The 11th edition of Arabplast More… |
Sabic, ExxonMobil seminar on rubber industryThe Saudi Basic Industries Corporation (Sabic) and its joint venture partner ExxonMobil recently hosted a symposium promoting rubber industry downstream development at Sabic headquarters in Riyadh. Industry experts from around the More… |
Rubber producers to discuss price supportThe world's top three rubber-producing countries, Thailand, Indonesia and Malaysia, will meet in Bangkok at the end of this week to discuss measures to stabilise weakening rubber prices. Benchmark Thai smoked rubber sheet (RSS3) has fa More… |
Michelin hikes prices by up to 12pcMichelin Africa, India and Middle-East (AIM) is increasing the prices of all product ranges by upto 12 per cent, in the face of continued and accelerating escalation of raw material costs. The price hikes are as follows: More… |
Sabic to go ahead with only one rubber projectSaudi Basic Industries Corp (Sabic) said on Tuesday it would build only one rubber plant project, in Jubail on Saudi Arabia's Gulf coast, instead of two as originally planned. When Sabic and Exxon Mobil Chemical first announced the rub More… |
Bidding for Sabic, Exxon rubber plant closesBidding for the first contract to build a new rubber plant venture between US ExxonMobil Chemical and Saudi Basic Industries Corp (Sabic) closed on December 15, two bidders said. Bids for the construction of tanks and spheres at Kemya, (Al More… |
Rubber plant starts productionArmacell Zamil Middle East Company (Azmec) has said that its new factory in Dammam, Saudi Arabia, has begun commercial production of technical rubber insulation materials. The products will be marketed to the public and private sectors in More… |
Rubber output down 6pc in MalaysiaAssociation of Natural Rubber Producing Countries (ANRPC ) said rubber output in Malaysia, world’s third largest producer, was down 6 per cent from an earlier forecast, due to expansion in palm oil plantations. In its latest report ANRPC h More… |
Armacell Zamil opens new plant in SaudiArmacell Zamil Middle East Company launched its new manufacturing facility in Dammam, Saudi Arabia. The company is the result of a joint venture between Zamil Industrial, a leading manufacturing and fabrication group, and Armacell In More… |
Malaysia to step up rubber replantingMalaysia will accelerate its replanting scheme involving 32,000 hectares of existing rubber land under the country's initiative to improve market conditions following the weakening of raw natural rubber prices since July 2008, said a senior go More… |








