The Notch Blog

Yes, oil prices are up, but Liam Denning at the Wall Street Journal doesn’t see another spike coming. An excerpt: First, there is more...

The 11th Biennial Carbon Black World conference was held last week at the Crown Plaza hotel in Rome, Italy. The last Carbon Black World...

On October 21, 2010, Chemtura Corporation announced that the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York had...

On October 25, the U.S. EPA and the Department of Transportation’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration announced the first...

Asia Times Online examines the status of the BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China) and whether these four countries — seemingly...

CMT (Centre for Management Technology) is sponsoring its 4th CEE Rubber & Tire Markets conference in Instanbul on November 25-26, 2010....

Yesterday, OMNOVA Solutions Inc. announced that it had entered into an agreement with AXA Private Equity granting OMNOVA a period of...

Here’s an interesting overview of the Indian tire industry, including raw materials. It’s posted at scribd.com but it’s difficult to...

Following yesterday’s announcement that Evonik would divest its carbon black business, the company today announced a management change at...

Here are two interesting presentations from Lanxess’s Capital Markets Day on September 16. Business Unit Performance Butadiene Rubbers –...

We find that the program induced the purchase of an additional 360,000 cars in July and August of 2009. However, almost all of the...

Yesterday, Solutia named Greta Senn as president and general manager of its Technical Specialties division, which includes the Flexsys...

India’s Phillips Carbon Black, a subsidiary of RPG, announced that Jatin Kapoor joined the company as chief financial officer as of...

A Delaware-based company with headquarters in Israel, Adama Technologies, has announced plans to set up four tire recycling facilities in...

Massive traffic jams on the highways leading into Beijing (National Expressway 110, or G110, and the Beijing-Tibet Expressway) have...

Notch Consulting is proud to announce the publication of the 2010 edition of the Carbon Black World Data Book. Published annually, the...

A spokesperson for Himadri Chemicals & Industries has provided the following statement regarding the incident that occurred at its...

Green Tire Systems (Jersey City, New Jersey) has plans to start a tire recycling operation in the site of a former Union Carbide plant in...

From R&P News comes word that a new rubber recycler, Watson Brown HSM Canada Ltd., has opened its first rubber recycling facility in...

European Rubber Journal (subscription required) quotes data from Chinese Customs indicating that the US tariffs on Chinese tires have not...