VIENNA—Semperit's annual result for 2020 is expected to be significantly higher than the previous year, the Austrian rubber group said on July 3.

TOKYO—Bridgestone has unveiled a new global brand tagline, which will support its recently launched strategy to become a solutions and sustainable mobility company.

DETROIT—General Motors Co. began making facemasks in April. Now, the auto maker has earned special certification for the facemasks its turning out.

MUNICH—Wacker Chemie will bundle its silicone additives for household, consumer and sanitary paper products under a new name.

DETROIT—General Motors has honored five companies in the non-tire rubber industry with its Supplier of the Year Award, given to businesses that distinguish themselves "by going above and beyond GM's requirements and providing customers with innovative technologies."

A Senate bill seeks to cut the paperwork small businesses need to fill out to have their federal Paycheck Protection Program loans foregiven.

Testing for trace metal content already is common for many materials, but this would be the first standard applied to carbon black, ASTM said.

The two companies are teaming up to create a shoe that fulfills the environmental mission to which both Allbirds and Adidas have committed their brands.

Cabot Corp. will begin work next year on a $90 million project to capture waste heat to generate electricity.