Lotte to liquidate rubber JV in Malaysia, sell overseas assets for $1 bn

South Korea’s No. 2 petrochemical manufacturer Lotte Chemical Corp. plans to liquidate its rubber joint venture in Malaysia to scale back its ...

South Korean tire makers raise prices despite weak sales

South Korea’s three largest tire makers are raising product prices despite their weak sales in anticipation of an imminent market rebound amid...

Kumho Petrochem's rubber products win eco-friendly certification

Kumho Petrochemical Co. said on Tuesday that its four synthetic rubber products including SSBR, HBR, LBR, and NdBR have earned International Sustain...

KAIST invents world's 1st rubber-like printed circuit board

South Korea's top science and technology university has invented the world's first printed circuit board (PCB) that bends and stretches like rubber ...

DL Chemical’s Cariflex to build $384 million latex plant in Singapore

South Korea’s DL Chemical Co., a unit of the petrochemical-to-construction conglomerate DL Group, said on Thursday it is spending 500 billion ...

Rubber gloves make Korean petrochemical firms’ Q2 profit soar

South Korea’s leading petrochemical makers report their second-quarter sales and operating profit soared, boosted by strong sales of rubber gl...

US anti-dumping duties add to Korean tire makers' woes

The US trade body’s approval of anti-dumping tariffs on tire imports from South Korea, Taiwan and Thailand is adding to the woes of Korea&rsqu...

Korea’s major tire makers to raise prices as rubber supply tightens

South Korea’s three leading tire makers are set to raise prices of commercial and passenger vehicle tires on growing demand from automakers an...

U-One R2M: S.Korea’s pioneer of rubber-to-metal adhesive

An engine mount is the part of a vehicle that holds the engine in place while at the same time reducing engine vibration. So-called “anti-vibr...

Lotte Chem ready to bid for JSR’s synthetic rubber business

South Korea’s Lotte Chemical Corp. has completed due diligence on the synthetic rubber operation of JSR Corp., put up for sale by the Japanese...

Japan’s JSR reaches out to Lotte, LG for sale of synthetic rubber business

Japan’s JSR Corp. is reaching out to Korean chemical companies to dispose of its synthetic rubber business and focus instead on semiconductor ...