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Goodyear eyes 'phased restart' of some commercial tire production

US tariffs to have 'limited impact' on global tire industry

Added: 25 Apr 2025

Industry analyst: Any relocation of production is going to take years to develop...

Rubber & tire industry in numbers

Added: 25 Apr 2025

Review of the key figures and data to emerge over the last seven days from leading players worldwide

ETRMA provides input on REACH regulation simplification

Added: 25 Apr 2025

Calls for “regulatory coherence, proportionality, and predictability to support industrial competit…

 ExxonMobil chemical plant Baytown, Texas

IISRP announces president-international for 2025-26

Added: 25 Apr 2025

Douglas Wilson of LYC Elastomers replaces Zhuang Yi of Sinopec as leader of global synthetic rubber…

Kumho considering Poland, Serbia, Portugal for European tire factory

Added: 24 Apr 2025

South Korean company to make decision on location after review of geopolitical, trade factors

ZC Rubber ‘tracking impact’ of US trade tariffs

Added: 24 Apr 2025

“Not in a position to comment” on recently launched project to establish tire plant in Mexico

Hutchinson develops 'recycled-content' elastomer seals for European automotive major

Added: 24 Apr 2025

Seals in industrial production for use in vehicles to be produced in 2026 

Klean Industries taps Yokogawa AI, automation to enhance resource recovery

Added: 24 Apr 2025

Collaboration aimed at enhancing Klean’s pyrolysis and gasification systems

Pirelli progresses Saudi tire plant project

Added: 23 Apr 2025

Bidders took part in tendering process for construction of €480m tire manufacturing facility

Answer: The ‘connection’ has its origins at an exhibition in Lyon, France in 1894. There, Edouard Michelin pointed out to his brother Andre that a stack of tires on the company’s stand looked a bit like a person. In 1898, the concept was brought to poster artist Marius Rossillon, who drew a ‘tire-man’ – tires were then light in colour – onto a sample artwork for a brewery carrying the words ‘Nunc est Bibendum’ (now is the time to drink). The slogan, from an ode by Roman poet Horace, stayed with the new poster and soon after gave rise to the Michelin man’s famous name.

Michelin wary of “complex, potentially misleading” mass-balance claims

Added: 23 Apr 2025

Emphasis on stating actual sustainable tire-material content, clarity for end consumers

Analysis: US probes dumping by ESBR suppliers

Chinese group unveils 120ktpa synthetic rubber project to support tire industry

Added: 23 Apr 2025

Zhejiang Jiahua Energy Chemical to invest €150m in production facility in eastern China

Vibracoustic develops air spring system for ‘premium electric pickup’

Added: 23 Apr 2025

System designed to manage heavy loads while improving comfort, ride quality, and vehicle range 

Shell completes sale of Singapore assets

Added: 23 Apr 2025

Sells energy & chemical park to a Chandra Asri-Glencore Asian JV

Goodyear announces $320m expansion plan at US factory

Added: 22 Apr 2025

Investment to increase production capacity at Lawton plant by 30%

EU tire association sets out Vision 2030

ETRMA confirms departure of rubber industry associations

Added: 22 Apr 2025

General rubber goods members “chose to resign” from Brussels-based industry body

Rubber futures remain subdued as trade volumes decline

Added: 22 Apr 2025

"Traders remain cautious due to prevailing market uncertainties...."

Storm-hit Chinese machinery makers looking overseas

Mesnac expects strong profit growth on robust overseas demand

Added: 22 Apr 2025

Strong overseas investment by Chinese tire makers drives rubber machinery business

Enviro chairman stepping down

Added: 22 Apr 2025

Alf Blomqvist declines re-election to chairman of the board ahead of AGM

Record exports for Italian rubber and plastics machinery sector

Italian machinery makers see 'mixed signals' in overseas markets amid tariff pressure

Added: 22 Apr 2025

Amaplast reports declines in sales of plastics and rubber machinery to Europe, US

Chinese tire makers poised for period of "strong development"

Added: 17 Apr 2025

Sentury Tire leader lists drivers as including domestic expansion, intelligent manufacturing, globa…