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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 ‘highest-ever’ first half results

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...

Semperit completes acquisition of seal maker

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

Located south of Madrid, the centre will span around 300 hectares and will be used mainly for testing summer tires with high speed ratings as well as the characteristics of winter tires.

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…

Tire Tracker – Pirelli claims UHP tire ‘first’ with 55% sustainable P Zero E

Added: 11 Aug 2023

Latest news on tire fitments, testing and related innovations...

WDK: German rubber industry on flat growth track

ERJ: News stories of the week

Added: 11 Aug 2023

Most popular news reports posted on the European Rubber Journal website over the last seven days

ContiTech says will close Veyance deal by yearend

Conti trims tire sales forecast after mixed first half showing

Added: 10 Aug 2023

Replacement market dip poised to offset gains from pick-up in automotive production

Bekaert grows rubber reinforcement earnings despite sales dip

Added: 10 Aug 2023

“China volumes offsetting lower sales elsewhere, with strong margin performance across regions...”

Reselo advancing birch-bark rubber developments

Added: 10 Aug 2023

CEO: “Overwhelming interest” in birch tree-derived rubber following Nokian recognition

DRAFT Report: CEAT mulling new tire factory in India

Indian tire maker Ceat more than doubles earnings

Added: 10 Aug 2023

Improved pricing and volumes, with replacement and international business “looking good"

AirBoss units, Critical Solutions merge to form new defence entity

AirBoss unveils cost-saving measures in ‘defence unit’

Added: 10 Aug 2023

Move to cut $5m in annual costs, help segment “return to profitability”

Michelin targets 32% earnings growth in 2021

Tire Tracker – Michelin 45% tire wins automotive award

Added: 10 Aug 2023

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Avient develops bio-TPE tubing for pharma industry

Added: 10 Aug 2023

Said to match performance of conventional tubing materials, including silicone and standard TPEs...

Continental Carbon in $98m settlement with EPA

Cabot carbon black earnings grow despite lower volumes

Added: 9 Aug 2023

US-based supplier expects continued growth in profit, driven by pricing and product-mix...

Covestro starts up new elastomers plant in Shanghai

Added: 9 Aug 2023

Chinese unit to help meet “ever rising demand” for polyurethanes in the Asia Pacific 

Bridgestone, Microsoft develop tire-damage monitoring system 

Bridgestone research targets molecular-level simulation of tire compounds

Added: 9 Aug 2023

Minute structural differences in materials have “a large impact on performance”...

Trelleborg advances FEA to optimise semiconductor sealing materials

Added: 9 Aug 2023

TSS using finite element analysis to model compression set of elastomers for semiconductor customer…