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Adidas and footwear newcomer Allbirds say they'll join forces to create a shoe with almost no footprint ... at least no carbon footprint.
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NEW YORK—Products from recycled rubber products company is seeing its products being used in a high-profile project at New York's LaGuardia Airport.
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LUXEMBOURG—Graphene nanotube manufacturer OCSiAl has claimed that new fluoroelastomers formulations with graphene nanotubes can offer more durable polymers for applications in harsh environments such as the oil and gas, automotive, and chemical processing industries.
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THE WOODLANDS, Texas—Huntsman has put its Icynene-Lapolla and Demiclec businesses together in a new brand: Huntsman Building Solutions.
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AKRON—The University of Akron is moving forward with a redesigned plan for overhauling the makeup of the institution, including the possibility of turning the College of Polymer Science and Polymer Engineering into a school within another college.
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AKRON—A signed memorandum of understanding is intended to expand and strengthen the rubber industry's global connections.
DANBURY, Conn.—To honor longtime plastics journalist Bill Bregar, SPE and Crain Communications have launched the Bill Bregar Memorial Scholarship Fund, which will support aspiring journalists and business communicators in the plastics and manufacturing industries.
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WEST CONSHOHOCKEN, Pa.—A new ASTM standards group will examine alternative sources of natural rubber and natural rubber latex.
BRAMPTON, Ontario—"Zochem North," the Canadian headquarters of the largest supplier of zinc oxide in North America, has achieved a 10-year run of near perfection.
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BRUSSELS—The European Tyre and Rubber Manufacturers' Association is backing a European Parliament revision of the European Union tire labeling regulation.