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Lanxess is delaying major investment projects, including a new butyl rubber facility in Singapore, in response to what it calls the “global economic crisis”. 19 December 2008

Tyre distributors in the UK are running down their stocks in an effort to ride out the economic downturn, according to a sector survey. 11 December 2008

Carbon black producer Sevalco has revealed that it plans to close its plant at Avonmouth, UK, with the loss of 88 jobs. 8 December 2008

Ryburn Rubber has installed a new automated press capable of producing a large, one piece traffic speed cushion made from recycled rubber tyres. 3 December 2008

Dunlop Oil & Marine Ltd in the UK has agreed to plead guilty and pay $4.54m in criminal fines for participating in a conspiracy to rig bids, fix prices and allocate market shares of marine hose sold in the US and elsewhere. 2 December 2008

Avon Rubber of the UK made an operating loss of £4.1m on its continuing operations in the year to 30 September, despite a 12% increase in revenue to £54.6m. 2 December 2008

DSM Elastomers has started up the first run of Keltan EPDM production using the ACE advanced catalyst technology which it first unveiled last year. 27 November 2008

In response to the global financial crisis, French tyre maker Michelin Group has announced it is to cut back production at its Olsztyn plant in northern Poland. 24 November 2008

A British firm looks set to provide a closed-loop pyrolysis programme that will recycle old shredded tyres. 21 November 2008

Sabic and ExxonMobilChemical have taken their plans for synthetic rubber investment in Saudi Arabia a stage further by signing a Heads of Agreement and are progressing detailed studies on the project. 20 November 2008

The UK plastics and rubber industry is not faring as badly as other sectors in the economic downturn, latest business insolvency figures have revealed. 19 November 2008

The technical director and an operative at a company making rubber compounds near Bologna were killed on 17 November by a violent explosion in a mixer they were working on. 19 November 2008

Italian tyre manufacturer Pirelli has signed a deal with the Russian Technologies state corporation to invest €250m in the construction of a joint venture tyre plant in Togliatti, in the Samara region of Russia. 14 November 2008

UK-based precision rubber compounder SPC Europe has acquired Avon Rubbers’ European mixing centre in a deal worth £2.05m. 11 November 2008

A major Russian rubber producer, Krasnoyarsk Synthetic Rubbers Plant, has announced plans to launch a synthetic rubber powder production plant in April next year. 27 October 2008

• LyondellBasell considers Chapter 11 2 January 2009
• Poor cash flow spells disaster for food packaging firm 5 January 2009
• Sartor signs preliminary agreement to buy Ineos Vinyls Italia 5 January 2009
• Dow pursues claims against Kuwait’s PIC 6 January 2009
• PET bottle maker Constar files for Chapter 11 2 January 2009

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• BASF takes drastic action and shuts 80 plants (Update) 19 November 2008
• LyondellBasell considers Chapter 11 2 January 2009
• Sabic IP cuts output of engineering plastics 6 November 2008
• Ineos seeks bank waiver as customers destock 18 November 2008
• RPC drastic action for financial security 30 September 2008

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