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Michelin rejects employees' alternative concepts for German plants

Added: 18 Mar 2024

Bins proposals for competence centres, specialised production, merging of plants and workforce redu…

Tire rubber sales contribute to Asahi gains

Tire Tech Expo: Tire wear particles a key topic at Hanover conference

Added: 18 Mar 2024

New findings to emerge from studies by Tire Industry Project, Michelin, Conti, ACE Laboratories…

US 'strong spot' in global polymer outlook

Nordmann expands distribution deal with Ergon International

Added: 18 Mar 2024

Consolidates across Baltic States, Benelux, DACH, France, Nordic countries, Serbia, Spain, UK

Enviro fuel-from-tires project is "feasible"

Tire Tech Expo: Industry plots roadmap to sustainability goals

Added: 18 Mar 2024

Latest advances in recovered carbon black, Michelin BioButterfly and BlackCycle projects, Pirelli l…

Toyo announces leadership reshuffle

Toyo auctioning equipment from automotive plant in US

Added: 18 Mar 2024

Machinery includes straight-side stamping presses, uncoilers and feeders, vertical rubber moulding …

Yokohama, Bridgestone to hike truck tire prices in US 

Yokohama Rubber to build €350m car tire plant in Mexico

Added: 18 Mar 2024

Facility in Saltillo, northeastern Mexico, to have capacity to produce 5 million PCR tires per year

Michelin advances tire wear particles research with new analysis system

Added: 18 Mar 2024

Light particle analysis system enables capturing, sorting, counting and qualifying particles close …

Albis unveils polyamide adhesion modified TPV grades

German rubber industry calls for pause to new regulations

Added: 18 Mar 2024

WDK warns of a “bureaucratic burnout”, says implementing regulations "massively overburdening" auth…

UPM advances German biorefinery project with logistics deal

Added: 18 Mar 2024

DB Cargo to deliver wood-based feedstock to Luena operations for production of sustainable chemical…

US tire shipments likely to fall 18% in 2020

USTMA presents tire industry’s legislative priorities

Added: 18 Mar 2024

Association lobbies US politicians in letter ahead of new session of government congress

ERJ: Industry appointments tracker

Added: 18 Mar 2024

GRI / Samaranayake / GRI / Guilford... YRC / Yamamoto... OCSiAl / Cuneo... Datwyler / van Walsum...…

German 'declaration' urges government to protect tire industry

Added: 15 Mar 2024

Trade union IGBCE, works council members call for measures against cheap tire imports, urge investm…

ERJ: Rubber & tire industry in numbers

Added: 15 Mar 2024

Bridgestone EMEA project... New Sailun, Guizhou plants... Zhongzhe SR project... Pirelli... Akwel..…

Thailand looks to cut back on natural rubber output

Sri Trang eyes rubber volumes growth amid US, EU demand recovery

Added: 15 Mar 2024

Bullish projection also linked to inventory trends and concerns about impact of the El Nino weather…

AirBoss consolidates operations amid weak results

Added: 15 Mar 2024

Adjusted earnings drop 40% year-on-year, on automotive labour stoppages, delayed government sourcing

Cooper Standard launches ‘integrated coolant flow manifold’

Added: 15 Mar 2024

Incorporates fluid tubing, adaptors, connectors within compact module to reduce complexity, assembl…

Outside track: Millions "written off" due to maintenance supply issues

Added: 15 Mar 2024

ERJ’s 'Outside track' reports cover developments across the wider manufacturing and process industr…

ACEA welcomes Euro 7 vote, calls for ‘holistic regulatory framework’ for affordable mobility

Added: 15 Mar 2024

Association working to ensure “a realistic and proportionate Euro 7” that will balance environmenta…

GRI joins International Rubber Study Group panel

Sri Lanka tire maker GRI appoints chief operating officer

Added: 15 Mar 2024

Thanuja Samaranayake has over 20 years of experience in global strategy and sustainability

ERJ: News stories of the week

Added: 15 Mar 2024

Most widely-read news reports posted on the European Rubber Journal website over the last seven days