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Sinopec brings online SBCs project in Hainan

Shandong (JLC), April 13, 2023--State-owned Sinopec started operation of its 170,000 mt/yr styreneic block copolymers (SBCs) project at Baling Chemical New Material Company in South China’s Hainan pr

04-13-2023 17:26:32

Bridgestone to raise investment in natural rubber

Bridgestone will increase investment in natural rubber by $26.7 million for its tire production.

08-18-2022 16:35:02

Bridgestone to expand high-end passenger tire capacity in Japan

Bridgestone plans to expand the production capacity of high-end passenger tires at its four factories in Japan in the next three years, with the total value of the project reaching $72 million.

02-22-2022 17:38:57

Bridgestone & Hankook see profit drop in Q1 on epidemic

In the first quarter of 2020, Bridgestone’s and Hankook’s profits both showed a significant decrease amid the spread of COVID-19 epidemic.

05-20-2020 15:15:43

Bridgestone to close 11 local plants but restart European & Asian plants

Bridgestone to close its 11 local plants but restart its European, Asian and African plants.

04-27-2020 17:24:52

Oil price plunge brings panic to EPR market

Shandong (JLC), March 17, 2020--China’s ethylene propylene rubber (EPR) prices remained low largely because of its weak fundamentals but the plunge in crude prices triggered further decline as it brought aggressively panic sentiments to EPR market.

03-17-2020 17:29:00

Slump in crude prices brings different impacts to rubber markets

Shandong (JLC), March 13, 2020--The slump in crude price brought different impacts to natural rubber and other rubber product markets as the rubber price was not highly relevant to crude oil trend but the anxious sentiments resulted in the plummet in natural rubber prices.

03-13-2020 15:03:04

Bridgestone’s OTR plant opens in Thailand

Recently, Bridgestone celebrated its opening ceremony for its OTR plant in Thailand.

11-07-2019 10:53:42

Bridgestone to sell a synthetic rubber plant

Bridgestone decided to sell a synthetic rubber plant run by Firestone Polymers to Lion Elastomers.

06-25-2019 16:07:40

Bridgestone to raise prices by 3% in August

Bridgestone recently announced that the selling price of tires for sale in Japanese domestic market would be raised from August 1 amid increased logistics related expenses.

06-20-2019 17:35:18

Bridgestone sets sales target in Indonesia

Bridgestone, a Japanese tire producer, recently set a target for its production plant in Indonesia to sell 1.1 million units of tires in Indonesia market in 2019.

04-25-2019 14:59:07

Bridgestone invents a new-type rubber material

Shandong (JLC), June 29, 2018--On June 25th, 2018, Bridgestone in Japan, which was the world's largest tire manufacturer, announced that it had invented a method of combining rubber and resin into a hybrid polymer at a molecular level.

06-29-2018 09:58:28

Brief introduction of offshore styrene units’ maintenance plans, 2018

12-14-2017 09:27:50

Will unit overhaul bring changes to China SBR market?

Sinopec Qilu Company shut down the No.2 SBR unit on May 20th. Its No.1 SBR unit was shut down on May 17th. According to JLC statistics, SBR unit shutdowns and output reduction will be centralized in June.

05-23-2017 17:17:13

RMB devaluation brings great changes to PE market

U.S.D index is strengthening gradually amid the prediction on FED’s raising interest rate in December, and it is in bullish trend because the trade protection policy rallied the American economy since Trump won the election.

11-17-2016 14:19:00

Brief review on China formaldehyde and poly-formaldehyde market (March 18th, 2016)

Despite slack performance of most downstream products, China formaldehyde market performed well recently due to good performance in methanol market. It is learned that formaldehyde market in Shandong, Hebei and Guangdong increased by 0.23%-5.91% in the week.

03-21-2016 15:03:25

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