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Live in France? Get Euro 500 toward driving lessons
Added: 7 Jun 2010
ERJ staff report (DS)
Paris -- To mark 100 years of its road maps, Michelin is offering 100 packages…

Goodyear to add retreading at Wittlich unit
Added: 7 Jun 2010
ERJ staff report (DS)
Hanau, Germany -- Goodyear is responding to increased demand for tyres in Euro…

Maxxis reports increased sales in 2009
Added: 7 Jun 2010
ERJ staff report (DS)
Taiwan -- Taiwan-based tyre maker, Maxxis International said sales in the 12 m…

Chinese tyre retreading industry studied for 2010
Added: 7 Jun 2010
ERJ staff report (DS)
Dublin, Ireland -- Reports from China has published a new report titled, China…

Tyre demand in China is booming
Added: 7 Jun 2010
ERJ staff report (DS)
Beijing, China -- Frbiz.com, one of China's B2B search platforms, reports that…

Chrysler woos wounded suppliers
Added: 7 Jun 2010
ERJ staff report (AN)
Detroit, Michigan -- Dan Knott, the boyish, hard-charging new head of Chrysler…

News from elsewhere on the web (7 June 2010)
Added: 7 Jun 2010
(12 items)
London--The following links showed up in our daily search for news on the web. Readers mi…

Reifen Show claims record numbers
Added: 7 Jun 2010
ERJ staff report (DS)
Essen, Germany -- organisers of the Reifen show, which took place in Essen, Ge…

Organisational meeting of RMA non-tyre group open to all
Added: 7 Jun 2010
ERJ staff report (R&PN)
Fairlawn, Ohio -- The non-tyre members of the Rubber Manufacturers Associati…

RMA announces cities with top tyre inflation
Added: 7 Jun 2010
ERJ staff report (R&PN)
Washington, DC -- Honolulu; Baltimore; Boston; Providence, Rhode Island; and…

90 percent of part-worn tyres are illegal
Added: 4 Jun 2010
ERJ staff report (DS)
Birmingham, UK -- Nine out of ten part-worn tyres failed to meet the minimum l…

Tokai to close Okayama AVS plant
Added: 4 Jun 2010
ERJ staff report (DS)
Tokyo -- In a brief Japanese-language announcement, Tokai Rubber Industries' V…

School district drops lawsuit after Lanxess donates $750,000
Added: 4 Jun 2010
ERJ staff report (R&PN)
Cincinnati, Ohio -- Ohio's Three Rivers Local School District has dropped it…

Bridgestone, BMW settle run-flat lawsuit
Added: 4 Jun 2010
By Bruce Davis, ERJ staff (TB)
Trenton New Jersey -- BMW North America LLC and Bridgestone Americas…

News from elsewhere on the web (04 May 2010)
Added: 4 Jun 2010
(14 items)
London--The following links showed up in our daily search for news on the web. Readers mi…

Trelleborg raising industrial tyre prices
Added: 4 Jun 2010
ERJ staff report (TB)
Tivoli, Italy -- Trelleborg Wheel Systems SpA will increase prices worldwide o…

Here's how to tell when suppliers' honeymoon ends
Added: 4 Jun 2010
Edward Lapham, Automotive News
I always learn something from talking to Tom Stallkamp, which I was a…

Probably the most crazy use for a tractor tyre ever
Added: 4 Jun 2010
ERJ staff report (DS)
YouTube - A video posted on YouTube shows a modern-day interpretation of the P…

EChA to act on enforcing rules on labelled oils in tyres
Added: 3 Jun 2010
ERJ staff report (DS)
Helsinki -- EChA, the European Chemicals Agency charged with implementing REA…

Winter tyre uses NR - silica compound
Added: 3 Jun 2010
ERJ staff report (RD)
Nokia, Finland -- The tread of the Hakkapeliitta 7, a studded winter tyre from…