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Sava changes name to Goodyear Dunlop Sava Tires - reports
Added: 29 Jun 2011
ERJ staff report (DS)
Kranj, Slovenia -- Goodyear subsidiary Sava Tires is to be-ramed Goodyear Dunl…

Boeing recognises Bridgestone as leading supplier
Added: 29 Jun 2011
ERJ staff report (DS)
Seattle, Washington State -- Bridgestone Corporation has been recognised as Su…

Plaza Group to join IISRP
Added: 29 Jun 2011
ERJ staff report (DS)
Houston, Texas - The Plaza Group, a leading international petrochemical market…

EChA opens web portal for REACh enforcement
Added: 29 Jun 2011
ERJ staff report (DS)
Helsinki, Finland -- ECHA is making the data it holds readily and securely acc…

NR prices recover in Tokyo
Added: 29 Jun 2011
ERJ staff report (DS)
On Tokyo's Tocom Exchange, prices for the six-month contract recovered by yen …

Poland to be furnished with a new foam latex plant
Added: 29 Jun 2011
ERJ staff report (PRW)
Ociazu, Poland -- Poland's L-Correct is planning to manufacture a new generat…

Liverpool Council uses scrap tyres for horticulture
Added: 29 Jun 2011
ERJ staff report (DS)
Liverpool, UK -- Fly-tipped tyres have been retrieved from a stream in Liverpo…

Jiangsu Sunon opens insoluble sulphur factory - report
Added: 29 Jun 2011
ERJ staff report (DS)
Jiangsu, China -- Jiangsu Sunon Chemical Co Ltd has reportedly started constru…

Indian Rubber Board says crop sprays are not damaging
Added: 29 Jun 2011
ERJ staff report (DS)
Kottayam, Kerala, India -- Spraying of Bordeaux mixture and Copper Oxy Chlorid…

Keyuan to develop S-SBR with Hangzhou Zhongce
Added: 28 Jun 2011
ERJ staff report (DS)
Ningbo, China -- Keyuan Petrochemicals, Inc has agreed to work with Hangzhou Z…

MGI to purchase Avon Automotive
Added: 28 Jun 2011
ERJ staff report (R&PN)
Cadillac, Michigan - MGI Coutier Group, a Paris based automotive supplier, …

EU truck registrations continue to grow
Added: 28 Jun 2011
ERJ staff report (DS)
Brussels - New data from ACEA, the European vehicle makers' federation shows t…

ANRPC reduces forecasts of 2011 NR output to below 10m tonnes
Added: 28 Jun 2011
ERJ staff report (DS)
Kuala Lumpur - In its latest economic forecast, the Association of Natural Rub…

Cooper Standard to expand in Kentucky
Added: 28 Jun 2011
ERJ staff report (LMH)
Mt Sterling, Kentucky - Cooper Standard is to expand its Montgomery County, K…

Goodyear pleased by Supreme Court ruling in overseas case
Added: 28 Jun 2011
ERJ staff report (TB)
Washington DC - Goodyear said it was pleased by a unanimous US Supreme Court r…

News from elsewhere on the web (28 June 2011)
Added: 28 Jun 2011
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London--The following links showed up in our daily search for news on the web. Re…

US Supreme Court reverses court ruling in Goodyear foreign operations tyre liability case
Added: 28 Jun 2011
ERJ staff report (TB)
Washington DC - US State courts can't hold foreign corporations liable in acci…

Trinseo (Styron) plans intial public offering
Added: 28 Jun 2011
ERJ staff report (PN)
Berwyn, Pennsylvania -- Global polystyrene leader Styron LLC -- which is chan…

Ningbo NBR plant almost complete - report
Added: 28 Jun 2011
ERJ staff report (DS)
Ningbo, China - A report from China Chemical News, re-printed on the Chinese R…

Saab owner gets cash to pay wages, some suppliers
Added: 28 Jun 2011
ERJ staff report (AN - Reuters)
Amsterdam, Netherlands -- Swedish Automobile, the parent company of…