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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…

Dow Chemical, Lehigh to work on sustainable rubber
Added: 24 Aug 2011
ERJ staff report (DS)
Atlanta, Georgia -- Dow Chemical and rubber recycler Lehigh Technologies are t…

Australian university develops tyres-to-steel process
Added: 24 Aug 2011
ERJ staff report (DS)
Melbourne, NSW -- A senior professor at the University of New South Wales has …

WTO: Report on Chinese tyre tariff appeal due soon
Added: 24 Aug 2011
ERJ staff report (TB)
Geneva Switzerland -- A report on China's appeal of a World Trade Organisation…

News from elsewhere on the web (24 August 2011)
Added: 24 Aug 2011
(24 items)
London--The following links showed up in our daily search for news on the web. Readers mi…

Inventors seek funding for self-inflating bicycle tyre
Added: 24 Aug 2011
ERJ staff report (DS)
San Francisco, California -- A group of inventors is seeking up to $250,000 (e…

UK entrepreneurs develop PiezoTag for next-generation TPMS
Added: 24 Aug 2011
ERJ staff report (DS)
Coventry, UK -- A UK start-up company claims to have developed a smart tyre se…

Kumho ordered to move Nanjing plant on pollution risk- report
Added: 24 Aug 2011
ERJ staff report (DS)
Nanjing, China -- Local reports suggest that Kumho Tire has been told by the N…

Zeon awards contract for Texas HNBR plant
Added: 24 Aug 2011
ERJ staff report (DS)
Houston Texas -- KBR said it was awarded a contract by Zeon Chemicals (Zeon) t…

Synthetic rubber prices rise in China
Added: 24 Aug 2011
ERJ staff report (DS)
Beijing -- Prices of synthetic rubber and especially materials for the tyre in…