http://www.aalatex.comAA Latex - aalatex.com - Global Rubber DistributorRubber trees are grown in regions that are hot and moist, that is: +    in Africa (250 000 tons of natural rubber); +    in Central and South America (31 700 tons of natural rubber) +    in Asia, which is the chief producer (3 207 100 tons of natural rubber). In Africa they are grown mainly in the forest regions. In Africa the chief producers of natural rubber are: Liberia          100 000 tons Nigeria          80 000 tons Zaire              35 675 tons Ivory Coast     18 000 tons Cameroon      12 000 tons Central African Empire         1 250 tons Ghana           1 700 tons Mali           1 100 tons Congo           160 tons These production figures (for 1974) are from the FAO Production Yearbook 1974. To grow good rubber trees and harvest plenty of latex, you must: +    prepare the seedlings well; +    make a good plantation; +    look after the plantation; +    harvest the latex well.5/4/2011 11:44:00 AMhttp://www.aalatex.com/content/comments.asp?id=252Kinshasa, DR Congo - The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is to produce renewable energy from rubber in the Lukula territory, south-west of the country, the director of the project, Daniel Adam, told the press on Saturday. Mr. Adam was speaking at the end of an audience with the mayor of the town of Boma, Marie-José Nsuami. Rubber trees are abundant in the district of Bas-Fleuve and in Lukula. Pana 10/04/20115/4/2011 11:29:00 AMhttp://www.aalatex.com/content/comments.asp?id=251Over years, The OC Group has supplied natural latex rubber to the world-leader in water control solution, Sovereign Hydro.   The products offered by Sovereign Hydro are widely used in mining applications and civil applications to control water seepage in deep, shallow and open cut mines as well as in water sealing application for underground garage, basements, cellars etc... up to 200 litres/second at 145 psi.  We have high confidence that Sovereign Hydro solution can be useful to help solve the radio-active water leaking problem at Fukushima Nuclear Plant in Japan. For more information, please contact The OC Group or visit www.sovereignhydro.com.4/4/2011 7:46:00 PMhttp://www.aalatex.com/content/comments.asp?id=249HANOVER, Germany (Oct 12, 2010) - Continental AG will raise the list prices of summer tires in the European replacement market by an average of 5 percent, effective Jan. 1. The company said the increase comes in response to the very high price level for natural rubber. We are currently working on implementing this price increase right across Europe in order to offset at least some of the substantial increases experienced this year in the cost of raw materials,” a spokesman for Continental said.  "We opted for January 2011 as a date so that our customers can now focus their attention on the winter tire business which is so important for us all."10/13/2010 4:50:00 PMhttp://www.aalatex.com/content/comments.asp?id=248Rubber in Indonesia, the world s second-largest producer, surged to a record after heavy rains disrupted tapping and the price may extend gains, according to an industry association. The free-on-board price, or cost without freight and insurance, for SIR-20 grade climbed today to $3.85 a kilogram, Asril Sutan Amir, chairman of the Rubber Association of Indonesia, said by phone. The price was quoted at $3.67 yesterday, and was about $2.87 at the start of the year, according to data compiled by International Rubber Consortium. A La Nina weather event has brought heavier-than-usual rainfall to parts of Australia and Asia this year, including Thailand, Indonesia and Malaysia, the three biggest rubber growers. The rains have also been blamed by Indonesian industry groups for lower output or missed forecasts for cocoa and tin. The Indonesian rubber price may advance to $4 by the end of this month because there s a “supply shortage” and growing demand, said Amir. Output will probably be about 2.4 million metric tons this year, matching last year s total, Amir said, reiterating a forecast that the association made last month. Rubber futures in Tokyo denominated in yen have surged 19 percent this year on tighter supplies and demand from China, the largest user. The March-delivery contract on the Tokyo Commodity Exchange climbed as much as 3 percent today to 332.5 yen per kilogram ($4,046 a metric ton), the highest level since April 19. Thailand, Indonesia and Malaysia together account for about 70 percent of global natural-rubber production. To contact the reporter on this story: Supunnabul Suwannakij in Bangkok at ssuwannakij@bloomberg.net To contact the editor responsible for this story: Richard Dobson at rdobson4@bloomberg.net10/13/2010 4:47:00 PMhttp://www.aalatex.com/content/comments.asp?id=247BLOOMBERG - Natural rubber output in Indonesia, the world’s second- largest grower, may miss an industry group’s target for this year as heavy rains disrupt tapping, adding to signs that wet weather is hurting commodity production. Rubber Reaches Two-Week Low as Shanghai Slumps on Probe Talk Rubber in Tokyo dropped to a two- week low as investors locked in profits and after the price in Shanghai slumped on speculation that regulators may be investigating large futures positions. Commodity prices in China declined today on market speculation that regulators were investigating large positions in natural rubber futures, the Securities Times said on its website, citing people it didn’t identify.9/9/2010 2:46:00 AMhttp://www.aalatex.com/content/comments.asp?id=246Indian Tyre companies are announcing price hikes of its rubber, to cope up the rising prices of raw materials. Apollo Tyres, MRF, JK Tyres and Ceat have already increased the prices by 15-20% since January 2010 and they are now considering for another price hike. JK tyres has already been thinking over a 4% price hike across all its product categories. Other tyre companies are also planning on price revision. According to AS Mehta, Marketing Director at JK Tyres, said that the company had faced one of the worst quarters (July-September) in the past several years on the back of unprecedented rise in input prices. He added that, even several rounds of price hikes have not been sufficient to offset the increase of price of natural rubber and other inputs. Currently, natural rubber prices are around 160 per kg and if this price is constant, there will be no further tyre price hike atleast for this year. Either ways, we could still expect a very small price hike in the coming days, to be announced by various tyre companies. Via WWW.ONEINDIA.IN9/8/2010 2:43:00 AMhttp://www.aalatex.com/content/comments.asp?id=245BLOOMBERG - Rubber fell after Japan’s currency jumped to a 15-year high against the dollar, cutting the appeal of yen-based contracts, and as equities and commodities dropped amid concern that the global economic recovery may be faltering. Futures in Tokyo lost as much as 1.2 percent to 296.3 yen per kilogram, retreating further from a four-month high of 302.5 yen per kilogram ($3,614 a metric ton) reached on Sept. 6. February-delivery rubber settled at 298.7 yen. The yen advanced before the U.S. Federal Reserve releases its Beige Book business survey that may show the U.S. recovery is stalling. Risk aversion by investors also increased after German factory orders unexpectedly decreased in July, and Germany’s banking association said the nation’s lenders need to raise $135 billion because of new regulation, according to Hisaaki Tasaka, an analyst at Tokyo-based broker ACE Koeki Co. “Industrial raw materials are vulnerable for selling amid concerns about the economic recovery,” Tasaka said by phone today. “Rubber tracked losses in oil and metals.” The yen rose to 83.35 per dollar, the strongest since May 1995. The MSCI Asia Pacific Index sank 1.4 percent to 120.11. ‘Lingering Worries’ “There are lingering worries the U.S. economic recovery may be tepid,” said Tsutomu Soma, a bond and currency dealer at Okasan Securities Co. in Tokyo. “This is a negative for the dollar,” said Soma. German factory orders, adjusted for seasonal swings and inflation, fell 2.2 percent from June, when they surged a revised 3.6 percent, the Economy Ministry in Berlin said yesterday. It’s the biggest drop since February 2009. The Fed will release its survey of conditions in its 12 districts today before officials meet to review monetary policy on Sept. 21. The jobless rate in the U.S. is likely to approach 10 percent in coming months as the economy fails to grow enough to employ people rejoining the labor force, economists said. Losses in rubber futures were limited as rain curbed supply from Thailand, the world’s largest producer and exporter. The Thai cash price was unchanged at 109.20 baht ($3.50) per kilogram, according to the Rubber Research Institute of Thailand. Rubber availability remains thin as rains in southern Thailand, the country’s main plantation area, have disrupted tapping, it said. January-delivery rubber on the Shanghai Futures Exchange gained 0.2 percent to close at 26,450 yuan ($3,892) a ton. It climbed to 26,645 yuan on Sept. 6, the highest level since July 2008, as accelerating growth in China’s car sales raised the outlook for demand. Natural-rubber inventories monitored by the Shanghai exchange expanded 1,119 tons to 25,820 tons, the bourse said on Sept. 3. To contact the reporter on this story: Aya Takada in Tokyo at atakada2@bloomberg.net9/7/2010 2:42:00 AMhttp://www.aalatex.com/content/comments.asp?id=244BLOOMBERG - China, the world’s largest natural rubber user, may boost imports 10 percent this year after “robust demand” from tire makers depleted inventories to the lowest level in more than seven years, an analyst said. Imports may climb to about 1.87 million metric tons from 1.7 million in 2009, likely supporting prices as shipments from major producers slow, Liu Bin, an analyst at Citic Securities Futures Co., said by phone from Shenzhen today. Inbound shipments by China declined 1 percent to 980,000 tons in the first seven months of this year, according to customs data compiled by Bloomberg. Stockpiles tracked by the Shanghai Futures Exchange declined to 14,771 metric tons on June 24, the lowest since Feb. 2003 and were at 24,701 tons last week. Combined inventory monitored by the exchange, at ports and in industrial warehouses may have dropped to the lowest level in three years, compared with the same time in previous years, Liu said. “Robust demand from tire makers this year caught many industry players off-guard,” Liu said. “Many had expected to see auto sales and tire consumption growth to slow, especially after the U.S. decided to levy Chinese tire imports.” Natural rubber prices climbed to 26,200 yuan ($3,850) a ton today on the Shanghai exchange, the highest level since July 2008. Prices are likely to be supported as shipments from producing countries in Southeast Asia slow because of disruptions to output caused by storms and wet weather, Liu said. China’s tire exports jumped 30 percent in the first six months from a year earlier to 86.68 million units as demand from developing countries outweighed lost sales in the U.S., Liu said. The U.S. in September levied a 35 percent duty on $1.8 billion of China-made tires. “Coupled with a still-strong domestic auto market, you have a very bullish demand picture,” Liu said. China’s retail passenger-car sales in August jumped 59 percent from a year earlier to 977,330 units, the China Automotive Technology & Research Center said yesterday. The nation’s total vehicle sales in August increased 56 percent compared with the previous year to 1.22 million units, according to the center. --Feiwen Rong. Editors: Matthew Oakley, Ravil Shirodkar. To contact Bloomberg News staff for this story: Feiwen Rong in Beijing at +86-10-6649-7563 or frong2@bloomberg.net9/1/2010 2:38:00 AMhttp://www.aalatex.com/content/comments.asp?id=243We manufacture household latex gloves that are used in food processing, janitorial services, light industrial works... Our gloves have been exported to Japan, Korea, Taiwan and US. 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