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Skellerup reports strong sales, profits in full year
Added: 25 Aug 2011
ERJ staff report (DS)
Auckland, New Zealand -- Skellerup Holdings has announced a record audited Net…

Kenda OKs expansion of China plants
Added: 25 Aug 2011
ERJ staff report (TB)
Taipei, Taiwan -- Kenda Rubber Industrial Co. Ltd. has brought on stream passe…

Conti to expand, add radials to Indian tyre plant (updated)
Added: 25 Aug 2011
ERJ staff report (TB)
New Delhi, India -- Continental AG plans to invest $71 million through 2013 in…

News from elsewhere on the web (25 August 2011)
Added: 25 Aug 2011
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London--The following links showed up in our daily search for news on the web. Readers mi…

Keyuan receives delinquency notice from NASDAQ
Added: 25 Aug 2011
ERJ staff report (DS)
Ningbo, China -- Keyuan Petrochemicals, Inc. has received a further notice fro…

Goodyear's Union City plant closed
Added: 25 Aug 2011
ERJ staff report (DS)
Union City, Tennessee -- The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company said it has ceased…

China issues new standards in rubber industry
Added: 25 Aug 2011
ERJ staff report (DS)
Beijing, China -- China has issued new standards covering manufacturing in the…

Solution-SBR is the key - study
Added: 25 Aug 2011
ERJ staff report (DS)
Dublin, Ireland -- Merchant Research & Consulting has published a new report t…

NR prices 25 August
Added: 25 Aug 2011
ERJ staff report (DS)
London -- On Tokyo's Tocom Exchange, prices for the six-month contract rose sl…

Momentive to increase capacity for silanes
Added: 25 Aug 2011
ERJ staff report (DS)
Albany, New York -- Momentive Performance Materials Inc. is to expand producti…

Global TPMS business studied
Added: 25 Aug 2011
ERJ staff report (DS)
Dublin, Ireland -- Global Industry Analysts has published a new report titled,…

US non-tyre rubber goods business studied
Added: 25 Aug 2011
ERJ staff report (DS)
Dublin, Ireland -- Supplier Relations US has published a new report titled, Ru…

Asia Carbon writes to shareholders, following results
Added: 25 Aug 2011
ERJ staff report (DS)
New York -- Asia Carbon, a producer of carbon black, has written to its shareh…

GM tyre/wheel specialist to keynote Tire Society event
Added: 25 Aug 2011
ERJ staff report (TB)
Fairlawn, Ohio -- Terrence Connolly, head of General Motors Co.'s suspension, …

Brodsky to speak at India tyre conference
Added: 25 Aug 2011
ERJ staff report (TB)
Chennai, India -- Harvey Brodsky, managing director of the US-based Retread Ti…

Conti's big Indian investments include radial truck tyre plant
Added: 24 Aug 2011
ERJ staff report (DS)
Hanover / New Delhi -- Continental has announced significant expansion plans f…

PiezoTag has energy to spare
Added: 24 Aug 2011
By David Shaw, ERJ staff report
Coventry, UK -- Further to this morning's story that Piezotag is off…

Conti publishes 'green' case studies
Added: 24 Aug 2011
ERJ staff report (DS)
Hannover -- Continental has published a brochure called 'Engineering Green Val…

Genomatica files for IPO
Added: 24 Aug 2011
ERJ staff report (DS)
New York-- Genomatica, the bio-technology company which yesterday announced it…

Africa Renewables starts grinding up rubber trees in Ghana
Added: 24 Aug 2011
ERJ staff report (DS)
London -- Africa Renewables Ltd ("AfriRen"), the London-headquartered renewabl…