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Smithers Rapra has scheduled the next Carbon Black World conference for May 25-27, 2016 at the Omni Hotel in Fort Worth, Texas. More...

Cabot Corporation announced yesterday that it will close its carbon black manufacturing facility in Merak, Indonesia. Cabot anticipates...

Cabot Corporation today announced a plan to restructure its operations with anticipated cost savings of approximately $50 million in...

On October 15, Orion Engineered Carbons S.A. and Evonik Industries AG today announced agreements on transactions where Orion will acquire...

Omsk Carbon Group, Russia’s largest carbon black producer, recently changed the name of its Germany subsidiary from Omsk Carbon Germany...

This month, Notch Consulting published the 2015 edition of the Carbon Black World Data Book, the most widely read and authoritative...

I’m late to this news due to summer vacation, but over the last several weeks, four of the five carbon black producers in the United...

Carbon Black China 2016 will be held at the Hainan New Yantai Hotel in Haikou, Hainan province from March 18 through 22, 2016. CBC is...

Today, Sid Richardson Carbon and Energy Co. (Fort Worth, Texas) announced plans to build a new carbon black plant in Mexico, with startup...

A new company called Monolith Materials (Redwood City, CA) is building a carbon black plant in Hallam, Nebraska that will use a new,...

Birla Carbon, part of Aditya Birla Group, has announced the construction of a new 240 KTPY carbon black plant to be built in Jining,...

The annual Tire Technology Expo is happening next week at the Kolnmesse. This is an essential show, a full three-day conference combined...

On January 22, Cancarb Limited announced that its current President and CEO, Dave Petrie, will retire as of March 31, 2015. Mr. Petrie...

Frankfurt-based carbon black producer Orion Engineered Carbons L.L.C. has launched a new Innovation Team that will work with its...

Rubber & Plastics News had an article the other day highlighting three raw material suppliers — a carbon black distributor, a steel cord...

Cabot Corporation today announced a change in its reporting segments: going forward Cabot is organized into four reporting segments:...

The Economic Times has an interview with Surendra Chawla, head of global R&D for Goodyear Tire and Rubber. The topic is precipitated...

Omsk Carbon Group, Russia’s largest producer of carbon black, announced in September that it had opened a Canadian office in Prescott,...

According to Rubber News, Goodyear plans to produce plans to use silica derived from rice husk ash to produce low rolling resistance...

Notch Consulting has received word that the Warri Refining and Petrochemical Company (WRPC), a unit of Nigerian National Petroleum...