1. Trelleborg buys minority shareholders out of Indian sealing operation
ERJ staff report (DS)Bangalore. India -- Trelleborg is to buy back the outstanding 20 percent shares in its subsidiary, Trelleborg Sealing Solutions India, thereby becoming sole owner of the company. ...
31 March 2008
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2. Daetwyler Group posts record revenue and profit, opens Mexican plant
ERJ staff report (DS)Altdorf, Switzerland -- The Daetwyler Group delivered record revenue and profit levels for the 12 months ended December 2007. Net revenue climbed 17.7 percent to CHF 1,429.4 milli...
31 March 2008
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3. EU aims for year-end CO2 decision
By Lawrence Speer, Automotive news EuropeParis -- European countries want negotiations on a tough new CO2 emissions regime for Europe's new-car fleet to be completed by year-end.Heads of state from th...
31 March 2008
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4. Fire & Toxic Emissions Resistance of Elastomers meeting set for June in London
ERJ staff report (DS)London RIEG (the Rubber in Engineering Group of The Polymer Society a Division of The Institute of Materials, Minerals & Mining) is to hold an afternoon technical discussion m...
31 March 2008
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5. IISRP publishes Synthetic Rubber Manual (17th edition)
ERJ staff report (DS)Houston, Texas -- The International Institute of Synthetic Rubber Producers (IISRP) has published the 17th edition of The Synthetic Rubber Manual. The manual includes detailed co...
31 March 2008
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6. News from elsewhere on the web 31/March/08
(13 items)London--The following links showed up in our daily search for news on the web. Readers might be interested to read these news stories. ERJ editorial staff strongly advises readers to heed th...
31 March 2008
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7. Lanxess raises prices for non-tyre rubber
ERJ staff report (DS)Leverkusen, Germany -- Lanxess AG is to increase its prices worldwide for a number of its synthetic rubber grades effective 1 April, 2008. According to an announcement by the Tech...
31 March 2008
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8. Performance Fibers to stop production at two plants
Richmond, Virginia -- Performance Fibers Holdings Inc. will cease manufacturing at its Winfield and Scottsboro, Alabama, tyre-fabric processing plants because of reduced demand from US tyre customers ...
31 March 2008
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9. Conti restructures power train division
Hannover, Germany -- Continental AG, Hanover, is restructuring its Powertrain Division. Dr. Karl-Thomas Neumann, a member of Continental's Executive Board, said, "We will undertake a global restructur...
28 March 2008
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10. Amtel-Vredestein sells Moscow plant for Euro 49million
Moscow, Russia. -- Amtel-Vredestein has sold the land and buildings associated with its wholly-owned subsidiary CJSC "Moscow Tyre Plant-M" to a property development company for a total of $77 million...
28 March 2008
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