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Apollo, Mahindra set up rally competition
Added: 26 Jul 2011
ERJ staff report (DS)
Nashik, India -- Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. (M&M), a part of the US $12.5 billio…

Trelleborg Wheel's Q2 earnings, sales up (Update)
Added: 26 Jul 2011
ERJ staff report (TB)
Stockholm, Sweden -- Trelleborg Wheel Systems reported a gain in pretax operat…

Weifang Yaxing develops CPE rubber process
Added: 25 Jul 2011
ERJ staff report (DS)
Weifang, China -- Weifang Yaxing Group Co., Ltd. has developed a process to ma…

JSR sales fell in first quarter
Added: 25 Jul 2011
ERJ staff report (DS)
Tokyo -- JSR Corp (previously known as Japan Synthetic Rubber) saw sales fall …

Hexpol's Elasto to produce TPEs in China
Added: 25 Jul 2011
ERJ staff report (PN)
Malmo, Sweden -- Hexpol AB plans to start making thermoplastic elastomer compo…

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

GM's coming cars, trucks to target fuel efficiency
Added: 25 Jul 2011
By Mike Colias, Automotive News
Detroit, Michigan -- Cars have dominated General Motors' vehicle-lau…

Conti to raise prices of commercial tyres
Added: 25 Jul 2011
ERJ staff report (DS)
Hanover, Germany -- Continental is to raise prices of its commercial vehicle t…

Evonik's carbon black unit to be re-named Orion - report
Added: 25 Jul 2011
ERJ staff report (DS)
Louisville, Kentucky - US chemical distributor William B. Tabler Company, Inc.…

NR prices on Mon 25 July
Added: 25 Jul 2011
ERJ staff report (DS)
On Tokyo's Tocom Exchange, prices for the six-month contract barely moved over…

Conti-shod Touareg covers Pan-American highway in 11 days
Added: 25 Jul 2011
ERJ staff report (DS)
Deadhorse, Alaska -- A team driving a Volkswagen Touareg fitted with Continent…

JSR opens LCD tech centre in Korea
Added: 25 Jul 2011
ERJ staff report (DS)
Tokyo -- JSR Corp. has announced that JSR Micro Korea (a 100 percent subsidiar…

113 years of Goodyear -- in a 3-minute video
Added: 25 Jul 2011
ERJ staff report (DS)
Akron, Ohio -- Australian website Caradvice has unearthed a video tracking Goo…

China's NR industry studied
Added: 25 Jul 2011
ERJ staff report (DS)
Dublin, Ireland -- China Research & Intelligence has published a report titled…

Waste tyres: Opinion piece from CRIA
Added: 22 Jul 2011
ERJ staff report (DS)
Beijing - Chinese observer Cao Qingxin has written a long piece on China's fu…

Operating profits up 98 percent in Q2 - Hexpol
Added: 22 Jul 2011
ERJ staff report (LMH)
Malmö, Sweden - Second quarter operating profits at polymer processing group…

EU tyre labels: the Chinese view
Added: 22 Jul 2011
ERJ staff report (DS)
Beijing - Ahead of its 15 Sept meeting on EU tyre labelling rules, the China R…

Nizhnekamskneftekhim to invest $3bn in expanding
Added: 22 Jul 2011
ERJ staff report (EPN)
Nizhnekamsk, Russia -- Russian petrochemicals manufacturer Nizhnekamskneftekh…

News from elsewhere on the web (22 July 2011)
Added: 22 Jul 2011
(11 items)
London--The following links showed up in our daily search for news on the web. Readers mi…

Yokohama tyres for Smart Fortwo
Added: 22 Jul 2011
ERJ staff report (LMH)
Tokyo - The Yokohama Rubber Co. Ltd has said its high-performance sport tyre …