• Major Directories

  • China Rubber Industry Handbook

    A store house of information you wanted to know on China's rubber and tyre industry. To be released shortly.

  • Asian Rubber Handbook & Directory 2005

    An updated version of the 2003 edition, focussing on Asia, which has now become the largest producer and consumer of both natural and synthetic rubbers.

  • Global Handbook and Directory on Rubber Machinery, Equipment and Accessories

    A veritable store-house of information on the global rubber machinery industry with comprehensive countrywise listings of machinery makers.

  • Global Handbook and Directory on NR & SR Latices 2006

    The Directory contains detailed information on these latices in addition to listings of NR & SR latex processors, chemicals and machinery suppliers, in different countries.

  • Asian Dipped Goods Handbook & Directory 2004

    An improved edition Asian Gloves and Dipped Goods Directory 2001, in-corporating the major changes that have taken place in the industry, inclu-ding the emergence of Asia as the largest producer of dipped products.
Cover story ( JAN- FEB 2010 )

Almar Trading Company:Growing through strategic diversification

A small step taken by the founders of Almar Trading Company in Sri Lanka in 1966 has metamorphosed into a giant leap today. From a small trading house exporting rubber sheets mainly to China, Almar is today the largest exporter of natural rubber and a leading business establishment in Sri Lanka. The company tapped the emerging business opportunities by diversifying into other fields such as export of tea and sugar, manufacture of granite, briquettes, wooden toys, papersacks and corrugated cartons, hydel power generation and property development.
Rubber still remains the core business of the group. The manner in which Almar transformed its rubber business unit from a humble beginning to what it is today is really admirable.
The liberalisation of the Sri Lankan economy provided Almar the opportunity to move ahead taking on even bigger challenges. Responding to the new business environment, the company formed a new business entity, Ally Weerasinghe Ltd, for the manufacture and marketing of granite. The extensive granite work that adorns Sri Lanka’s picturesque Parliament building in the centre of the Diyawanna Lake is a testimony to the quality of the products and services delivered by the Almar Group. more>>
 

 

Interview

Dr. H.P. Smit looks back

Climate change and labour shortage, big challenges

At the close of his tenure, Dr. Hidde Pieter Smit (Dr. H.P. Smit, to be short) stepped down from his position as Secretary General of the International Rubber Study Group (IRSG), effective end December 2009.

As helmsman of the Singapore-headquartered IRSG, he reigned supreme in the natural rubber world for the five-year term from 2005 to 2009. An authoritative spokesman of the industry, he presided over the collection and dissemination of vital information relating to natural rubber production, consumption, trade etc. and made forecasts on all these vital aspects and kept the global rubber community informed of the latest developments for getting prepared for any eventuality. He travelled extensively and graced many important industry-related international seminars and conferences and expos with his esteemed presence and enlightening talks and presentations. He was the Chief Guest of the mega India Rubber Summit and Dinner 2008 organised by Rubber Asia, in Cochin, India.
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Tyre World

India heading for a Imports may surge

Close on the heels of its Asian rival, China, emerging as world’s No 1 tyre hub, India is on a fast track to become a major international tyre manufacturing destination in synchronization with the automobile boom the country has been witnessing of late. This holds the promise for a steady increase in the demand for rubber, especially natural rubber, which is the most vital raw material for tyre manufacturing.

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Tyre waste crime:- by Peter Taylor

It’s making money from muck

Where “there’s muck there’s money,” the old expression goes and it is starting to become true of waste tyres too, although not always in a way we might like.
For all sorts of reasons, getting rid of worn-out tyres is becoming ever more expensive and, unlike any other non-hazardous waste stream, the European tyre industry is required to recycle virtually all its end-of-life (ELT) tyres. This is where the trouble starts.
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Market review

Prices on a roll despite copious supply

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Rubber market is again on a roll. Sheet rubber RSS 4 crossed Rs.130 a kg for the first time in 2009 in the first week of December, the highest NR producing month in India. The rise was quite brisk – from Rs.109 on November 5 to Rs.131 on December 5. By the third week of December, the price raced to Rs.140 a kg; but it fell a little on selling pressure generally noticed on the Christmas eve. It was surprising that the surge in price took place when the supply was copious at 958,000 tonnes in the month.

As import and export of rubber take place simultaneously in India, the domestic price follows the trends in the global market. In the first week of November when the market ruled around Rs.109 a kg for RSS 4, the world price was higher at Rs.116 a kg for RSS 3. However, the Indian price moved ahead and touched Rs.140 a kg while the international price ruled lower at Rs.134. The price rise was not because of any shortfall in supply, but on account of other factors. more>>