Rubber Sector

Intel is opening up new capacity for automakers by opening up its foundries for the manufacturing of chipsets that aren't based on its technology.

Industry body ATMA expects the government to lower the import duty of natural rubber to meet growing demand for automobile tyres.

At present, 100 per cent foreign investment is permitted through the government approval route in the tea plantation sector. However, FDI is not allowed in any other plantation sector or activity.

Commodities such as copper and rubber have been commonly used for financing in China, but Beijing's tightening of lending in sectors plagued by overcapacity such as steel has made it harder to secure bank loans, spurring financing demand for iron ore, according to industry sources familiar with the practice.

At least 13 workers were injured at an Anglo American Platinum mine in South Africa on Monday, some shot with rubber bullets and others hacked with machetes, in the year's first major mine violence after the sector was plagued by deadly strife in 2012.

With commodity prices softening and weak rupee continuing to support realisations of export-oriented sectors over the next couple of quarters, EBITDA margins are expected to rebound after falling continuously y-o-y for the last nine quarters. EBIDTA margins are likely to increase by 20-40 basis points (bps) y-o-y in July-September 2012 (Q2 FY13) to...

Indian Rubber Statistics, a book compiled by the Statistics and Planning Department of Rubber Board, has been released.

The increasing labour shortage was turning out to be a major challenge confronting the natural rubber sector, Union minister of state for Agriculture, KV Thomas, on Wednesday said. Inaugurating the Annual Rubber Conference of the Association of Natural Rubber Producing Countries (ANRPC), Thomas said the issue of labour shortage should be add...

Intel is opening up new capacity for automakers by opening up its foundries for the manufacturing of chipsets that aren't based on its technology.

Industry body ATMA expects the government to lower the import duty of natural rubber to meet growing demand for automobile tyres.

At present, 100 per cent foreign investment is permitted through the government approval route in the tea plantation sector. However, FDI is not allowed in any other plantation sector or activity.

Commodities such as copper and rubber have been commonly used for financing in China, but Beijing's tightening of lending in sectors plagued by overcapacity such as steel has made it harder to secure bank loans, spurring financing demand for iron ore, according to industry sources familiar with the practice.

At least 13 workers were injured at an Anglo American Platinum mine in South Africa on Monday, some shot with rubber bullets and others hacked with machetes, in the year's first major mine violence after the sector was plagued by deadly strife in 2012.

With commodity prices softening and weak rupee continuing to support realisations of export-oriented sectors over the next couple of quarters, EBITDA margins are expected to rebound after falling continuously y-o-y for the last nine quarters. EBIDTA margins are likely to increase by 20-40 basis points (bps) y-o-y in July-September 2012 (Q2 FY13) to...

Indian Rubber Statistics, a book compiled by the Statistics and Planning Department of Rubber Board, has been released.

The increasing labour shortage was turning out to be a major challenge confronting the natural rubber sector, Union minister of state for Agriculture, KV Thomas, on Wednesday said. Inaugurating the Annual Rubber Conference of the Association of Natural Rubber Producing Countries (ANRPC), Thomas said the issue of labour shortage should be add...