ACQUISITIONS

In plastics M&A, market is ripe for sellers

AKRON—It's a good time to own a plastics, polymer or specialty chemical company—especially if you're of a mind to sell it.

ASSOCIATIONS

Vietnam joining top natural rubber producers group

BANGKOK—Vietnam, currently the world's third largest producer of natural rubber after Thailand and Indonesia, is to join the International Tripartite Rubber Council.

MARKETING

Silicone Altimex launches new website

TWINSBURG, Ohio—Silicone Altimex of Q Holding launched a new website to walk visitors through the organization's integrated service offerings.

GOVERNMENT/LEGAL

China's environmental inspection causes increased tire prices

BEIJING—China's latest round of environmental inspection has been making splashes nationwide. Shandong, a province strong in the chemical industry housing a number of tire plants and feedstock facilities, has been under serious impact from the...

ASSOCIATIONS

ISRI issues sixth annual ISRI Scrap Yearbook

WASHINGTON—The Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries has released its sixth annual ISRI Scrap Yearbook.

ACQUISITIONS

H.B. Fuller to buy Royal Adhesives

ST. PAUL, Minn.—H.B. Fuller has signed a definitive agreement to purchase Royal Adhesives & Sealants from its private equity owner American Securities for about $1.58 billion.

GOVERNMENT/LEGAL

England tire retreader fined for fatal accident

LINCOLNSHIRE, England—Tire retreader Vacu-Lug Traction Tyres has been fined about $358,000 and ordered to pay costs of about $30,000 after a worker died at the company base in Grantham.

ASSOCIATIONS

Editorial: Collaboration vital to USW contract all can live with

It's so often said, but so often true, collaboration is key throughout the rubber industry. This round of master tire contract negotiations involving 12 United Steelworkers local unions and three major U.S. tire makers.

INDUSTRY

Monolith targets U.S. for carbon black

HALLAM, Neb.—Monolith Materials, a next-generation manufacturer of natural gas-based carbon black, is trying to bring a different form of carbon black manufacturing to America.

ACQUISITIONS

Davis-Standard completes Maillefer acquisition

PAWCATUCK, Conn.—Davis-Standard closed its acquisition of Maillefer International Oy of Vantaa, Finland, and Ecublens, Switzerland. Maillefer produces wire, cable, pipe and tube products.

GOVERNMENT/LEGAL

Former American Kuhne employees form new single-screw extruder company

WESTERLY, R.I.—A new extruder manufacturer has been formed by several former employees of extrusion equipment major American Kuhne.