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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.
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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.
VIENNA—Semperit is looking to divest its Sempermed medical business unit to better focus its resources on the industrial sector.
EUFAULA, Ala.—Medical Industries of the Americas is set to begin manufacturing latex gloves and other medical goods at the former Ameritex facility in Eufaula.
Volatility on the natural and synthetic rubber fronts continued into 2019, though for slightly different reasons.
SINGAPORE—Natural rubber giant Halcyon Agri has launched Bounce, which it said is a movement to drive industry and consumer change for an equitable, sustainable natural rubber industry.
JAKARTA, Indonesia—Major natural rubber producers Thailand, Indonesia and Malaysia have voiced their ‘extreme concern' over the spread of the leaf fall fungal disease Pestalotiopsis, which has affected large areas of rubber plantation.
SINGAPORE—Natural rubber company Corrie MacColl, a subsidiary of global NR supply chain manager Halcyon Agri, has joined forces with local and international non-government organizations to strengthen rubber production across its plantations in Cameroon.
BANGKOK—Members of the International Tripartite Rubber Council—Thailand, Indonesia and Malaysia—have reported a double-digit decline in natural rubber production, due in part to an outbreak of leaf fungal disease.