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Global SBS industry studied
Added: 15 Apr 2011
ERJ staff report (DS)
California -- Global Industry Analysts has published a new report titled, Styr…

NR prices sink further
Added: 15 Apr 2011
ERJ staff report (DS)
Tokyo -- Prices on Tokyo's rubber exchanges continued to fall overnight.
On Tok…

Hexpol publishes annual report
Added: 15 Apr 2011
ERJ staff report (DS)
Stockholm -- Hexpol AB's annual report for 2010 has today been published on th…

CalRecycle gives grants for tyres in road asphalt
Added: 15 Apr 2011
ERJ staff report (DS)
Sacramento, California --California's Department of Resources Recycling and Re…

Conti launches EcoContact, SportContact
Added: 15 Apr 2011
ERJ staff report (DS)
Portimao, Portugal -- Continental has combined the presentation of its two new…

Bridgestones fitted to all Citroën DS3 Racing production cars
Added: 15 Apr 2011
ERJ staff report (DS)
Brussels -- Citroën has selected Bridgestone's Potenza RE050A sports tyre for…

Hawkshead introduces TPMS for horse trailers
Added: 15 Apr 2011
ERJ staff report (DS)
Vancouver, Canada -- HawksHead Systems Inc offers (TPMS) Tyre Pressure Monitor…

Pirelli previews Shanghai F1 event
Added: 15 Apr 2011
ERJ staff report (DS)
Shanghai, China -- Inan article titled, "The Chinese Grand Prix from a tyre po…

Xingda sees steel cord sales jump 40 percent
Added: 14 Apr 2011
ERJ staff report (DS)
Hong Kong -- Xingda International Holdings Limited has reported results for th…

Evonik carbon black unit likely to go to Rhone - reports
Added: 14 Apr 2011
ERJ staff report (DS)
Essen, Germany -- Bloomberg reports that only one bidder -- Rhone Capital LLC …

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

NR prices sink slowly
Added: 14 Apr 2011
ERJ staff report (DS)
Tokyo -- Prices on Tokyo's rubber exchanges continued to fall overnight.
On Tok…

Toyo's Sendai plant up to 70 percent output
Added: 14 Apr 2011
ERJ staff report (DS)
Sendai, Japan -- Output at Toyo's car tyre plant in Sendai is up to 70 percent…

Mulally: Ford works with suppliers to minimise disruptions from quake
Added: 14 Apr 2011
David Barkholz Crain staff (AN)
Detroit, Michigan -- Ford Motor Co. CEO Alan Mulally said today that…

IISRP elects Polimeri's Protopapa as president
Added: 14 Apr 2011
ERJ staff report (R&PN)
Seoul, South Korea -- The International Institute of Synthetic Rubber Produc…

OSHA fines Lion Copolymer $182,000 - update
Added: 14 Apr 2011
ERJ staff report (R&PN)
Baton Rouge, Louisiana -- The Occupational Safety and Health Administration …

ITEC 2012 opens website
Added: 14 Apr 2011
ERJ staff report (DS)
Cleveland, Ohio -- Organisers of the ITEC tyre show in Cleveland, Ohio have op…

Goldman Sachs' stake in Nokian rises above 6 percent
Added: 14 Apr 2011
ERJ staff report (DS)
Helsinki -- Nokian Tyres has issued a standard statement saying, "the total ow…

Daetwyler confirms 50 job losses at Altdorf
Added: 13 Apr 2011
ERJ staff report (DS)
Altdorf, Switzerland - Further to an announcement at the company's annual resu…

Vibracoustic develops better start-stop manners
Added: 13 Apr 2011
ERJ staff report (DS)
Weinheim, Germany - Vibracoustic said it has developed a new system to improve…