1. ERJ October 2000 page 44
44 postscript By David Shaw, ERJ editor One of the debates we have been following over the last few years is the development of the automotive profiles business. In particular, the extent to which EPDM will be replaace by TPEs in that business. The first thi...
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2. ERJ October 2000 page 37
37 The following tables list tyre-making facilities throughout the world. Plant information shows: the year a factory opened; whether some of the workers are represented in a union* the number of employeee at the facility; the types of tyre made at the plant...
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3. ERJ October 2000 page 34
34 Goodyear remains the third biggest tyre maker in the world, even after taking into account the full-year figures for its highlypubliicise acquisition of Dunlop’s activities. To confuse matters even more, Bridgestone Corp. and Groupe Michelin finished fisc...
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4. ERJ October 2000 page 31
31 Europe is now the centre of technical developmmen in the world’s fluoroelastomer indusstry Growth is driven by the key automotiiv manufacturers all striving to meet current and future environmental legislation, and at the same time deliver much higher com...
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5. ERJ October 2000 page 26
26 Although the level of trading so far is minimaal there are now at least six portals— comprehensive web sites—available to rubber industry users on the web. These range from simple sites designed primarily as informatiio resources, up to sophisticated port...
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6. ERJ October 2000 page 24
24 Werner Schumann is in charge of developpin an e-business strategy at Bayer AG. His job is exciting, but, like many things connected with the web, tends to change at short notice. At the start of the year, Bayer’s board was saying it would not be in the fi...
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7. ERJ October 2000 page 22
Kraiburg’s JV with Preferred Rubber has given it a foothold in the important US market, said Fritz Schmidt (right) seen here with Adolf Zellner at the DKT 2000 show in Nuremberg Dow Chemicals is assessing plans for new synthetic rubber capacity in the light of the current situation, which is that “a...
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8. ERJ October 2000 page 21
21 Vredestein Rubber Resources BV is expandiin its Maastricht, The Netherlands-based custom compounding activities and is looking at the possibility of setting up another compounndin operation elsewhere within Europe. Vredestein is “striving to become one of...
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9. ERJ October 2000 page 0c
newsbriefs Robinson Bros invests Nuremberg, Germany—Speciality chemicals company Robinson Bros has announced a £20 -25 million (35 million) investment plan to 2004 in its West Bromwich, UK, site, following the recent closure of its Cambois, UK, unit. £1 million will go directly to the Robac rubber c...
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10. ERJ October 2000 page 0b
newsbriefs More solvent pressure needed Nuremberg, Germany—Regulatory pressure to cut solvent use in the adhesives sector has been slow to bite, according to Heinz Alberts, manager of products for the rubber sector with Henkel KGaA’s industrial adhesives division, based in Düsseldorf, Germany. “We c...
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