SINGAPORE—The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the global rubber market will be broadly similar to that seen during the financial crisis 2008-09, according to one independent consultant.

HANOVER, Germany—Continental's tire business is strengthening its focus on sustainability with the creation of a new department under the leadership of Claus Petschick.

LONDON—Corrie MacColl is constructing a new a new latex and natural rubber facility in Cameroon.

KUALA LUMPUR—The COVID-19 pandemic is taking an increasing toll on the natural rubber industry with the Association of Natural Rubber Producing Countries revising its forecasts for the fourth time this year.

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia—Malaysia rubber product exports are expecting the country's glove industry push the value of its exports higher this year.

LONDON—Natural rubber supplier Halcyon Agri and World Wildlife Fund have joined forces to establish a rubber trust fund intended to enhance the sustainability of natural rubber.

KUALA LUMPUR—The Association of Natural Rubber Producing Countries has revised downward its global production and consumption figures for natural rubber in 2020 after a sharp decline in demand in the first two months of the year.

HARBEL, Liberia—Bridgestone Americas said "continued and unsustainable losses" mandated the layoff of hundreds of workers at its Firestone Liberia natural rubber plantation in Harbel.

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia—Spread of the deadly coronavirus has caused a spike in share prices for rubber glove makers across Southeast Asia.