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Bridgestone Europe recruits Rossi as Moto tyre advisor
Added: 11 Mar 2011
ERJ staff report (DS)
Brussels -- Valentino Rossi, six-time MotoGP world champion, has agreed to bec…

French finance minister tells drivers to inflate tyres
Added: 11 Mar 2011
ERJ staff report (DS)
Paris -- French finance minister Christine Lagarde said on French Radio that d…

WestmoonInt adds more rubber grades
Added: 11 Mar 2011
ERJ staff report (DS)
Hong Kong -- WestMoonint has officially launched its chlorinated polyethylene …

UK Highways authority becomes full member of TyreSafe
Added: 11 Mar 2011
ERJ staff report (DS)
London -- The UK Government Highways Agency has been granted full member statu…

Can spam be helpful?
Added: 11 Mar 2011
ERJ staff report (DS)
London -- Threef spam emails from China arrived in ERJ's inbox this morning. T…

Tyre labels present marketing communication challenge
Added: 10 Mar 2011
By David Shaw, ERJ staff
Geneva, Switzerland -- A range of senior executives have told ERJ that the…

Conti develops new communication strategy in preparation for global push
Added: 10 Mar 2011
ERJ staff report (DS)
Hanover, Germany -- Continental AG has completely reviewed its brand communica…

NR prices unlikely to fall significantly - IRCo
Added: 10 Mar 2011
ERJ staff report (DS)
Kuala Lumpur -- The acting chief executive of the International Rubber Consort…

Pirelli Mexico, China plants due onstream in 2012
Added: 10 Mar 2011
ERJ staff report (TB)
Milan, Italy -- Pirelli & C. S.p.A.'s newest plants - a car/light truck tyre f…

News from elsewhere on the web (10 March 2011)
Added: 10 Mar 2011
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London--The following links showed up in our daily search for news on the web. Readers mi…

Schrader adds 100 jobs to fulfil Ford TPMS contract
Added: 10 Mar 2011
ERJ staff report (DS)
Antrim, Northern Ireland -- Schrader Electronics has announced details of a co…

EU drivers still under-inflate their tyres
Added: 10 Mar 2011
ERJ staff report (DS)
Brussels -- In a new survey, Bridgestone has found that 71% of motorists in Eu…

Asia Carbon records sales up by 44%
Added: 10 Mar 2011
ERJ staff report (DS)
New York -- Asia Carbon Industries, Inc. has reported sales for the year ended…

Stamford Tyres sees recovery continue in Q3
Added: 10 Mar 2011
ERJ staff report (DS)
Singapore -- Stamford Tyre's revenue for the three months to 31 Jan 2011 impro…

US tyre manufacturing sector studied
Added: 10 Mar 2011
ERJ staff report (DS)
Dublin, Ireland -- Supplier Relations US, LLC has published a report titled, T…

EU light vehicle tyre aftermarket studied
Added: 10 Mar 2011
ERJ staff report (DS)
Dublin, Ireland -- Datamonitor has published a new report titled, Light Vehicl…

Americas Butadiene market studied
Added: 10 Mar 2011
ERJ staff report (DS)
London -- GBI Research has published a new report titled, Butadiene Market In …

Zeon to expand HNBR capacity
Added: 9 Mar 2011
ERJ staff report (DS)
Louisville, Kentucky -- Zeon Chemicals LP has begun work on increasing product…

Pirelli eyes 8% growth; warns of higher prices
Added: 9 Mar 2011
ERJ staff report (TB)
Milan, Italy -- Pirelli & C. S.p.A.'s board of directors has raised the firm's…

Pirelli sales up 19% on higher volume, better prices
Added: 9 Mar 2011
ERJ staff report (TB)
Milan, Italy -- Pirelli & C. SpA reported double-digit growth in sales and ear…