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Tire tracker: Goodyear adds sporty all-season, with soybean oil
Added: 16 Aug 2023
Latest news on tire fitments, testing and related innovations...

Essentially Rubber – Women's World Cup 2023 match ball
Added: 16 Aug 2023
Leading-edge designs and applications showing how elastomer materials...

Apollo Tyre profits up 50% as Europe outperforms market
Added: 15 Aug 2023
Indian-based tire group sees margins improved as input costs stablise....

GPSNR grows rubber producers' network with Sri Trang addition
Added: 15 Aug 2023
Global sustainable NR platform now features 24 rubber producers, processors and traders

Goodyear boss signals major "streamlining" ahead
Added: 15 Aug 2023
Kramer: “Moving with urgency on our previously announced footprint and SAG cost structure review...…

Orion rubber black earnings up 51% despite dip in sales
Added: 15 Aug 2023
Volumes hit by ‘destocking and deferment’ in EMEA, Americas

Expanding Xingda grows rubber reinforcement sales
Added: 15 Aug 2023
Chinese-based supplier reports 11% sales growth in the first half of 2023

Toyoda Gosei strengthens alliance with automotive safety specialist Ashimori
Added: 15 Aug 2023
Extension of 2021 alliance will see mutual use of production locations, assessment facilities…
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Pirelli in link-up for ‘net-zero’ highway testbed
Added: 15 Aug 2023
Project with ‘The Ray’ to advance future mobility, EV charging infrastructure on 18-mile stretch of…

Yokohama Rubber "considering" new tire plant in China
Added: 14 Aug 2023
Has received request from Chinese authorities “to relocate the site of the current factory”
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Rubber futures mixed amid efforts to ‘turn market’
Added: 14 Aug 2023
China’s ‘looming deflationary concerns’ impacts demand for the commodity...

Goodyear employees die in vehicle incident at Nurburgring
Added: 14 Aug 2023
Two Luxembourg-based associates killed in incident at German test track

Bridgestone profits, sales increase in first half
Added: 14 Aug 2023
All segments report growth but profits decline significantly in Europe

Nokian completes recruitment campaign at US tire factory
Added: 14 Aug 2023
Finnish tire maker expands Dayton workforce in run-up to doubling capacity

Avient adds recycled-content TPEs for automotive interiors
Added: 13 Aug 2023
Grades with post-consumer recyclate ‘can match performance to conventional elastomers’

Tire tracker – Michelin expands Pilot aircraft tire line
Added: 13 Aug 2023
Latest news on tire fitments, testing and related innovations...

ContiTech nears 60% earnings-growth in first half
Added: 11 Aug 2023
Buoyed by conveyor belts, air-spring systems, industrial hose businesses

Yokohama Rubber posts 5% earnings rise on “record” sales
Added: 11 Aug 2023
But ‘business profit’ impacted by higher costs for materials, energy at Tires segment...

Brighter prospects for new-look Semperit after “solid” first half
Added: 11 Aug 2023
Sale of its medical gloves business now expected to close this month

Nokian has much catching-up to do
Added: 11 Aug 2023
Finnish group’s H1 passenger car tire sales well below levels before Russian exit - updated with co…