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Purcell buys Goodyear's OTR retreading assets
Added: 11 May 2009
ERJ staff report (TB)
Potosi, Missouri -- Purcell Tire & Rubber Co. has acquired the OTR tyre retrea…
Hankook starts first OE deliveries from Hungary factory
Added: 11 May 2009
ERJ staff report (DS)
Neu-Isenburg, Germany -- Hankook has begun shipping tyres to Volkswagen in the…
Toyo Tire reports loss for 12 months to March 2009
Added: 11 May 2009
ERJ staff report (DS)
Tokyo -- Toyo Tire has reported a loss for the 12 months to March 2009 on slig…
DuPont to exit Hypalon, Acsium businesses
Added: 8 May 2009
By David Shaw, ERJ staff
Beaumont, Texas -- DuPont Performance Elastomers has said it is exiting the…
DuPont to close Texas Hypalon plant
Added: 8 May 2009
ERJ staff report (DS)
Wilmington Delaware -- DuPont Performance Elastomers is to close a plant in Be…
Bridgestone plunges into red as sales fall 29 percent
Added: 8 May 2009
ERJ staff report (DS)
Tokyo -- Bridgestone has reported sales down by 28.8 percent for the quarter e…
Kraiburg invests in 2-K rubber-plastic composites
Added: 8 May 2009
ERJ staff report (RD)
Waldkraiburg, Germany - Gummiwerk Kraiburg GmbH & CO. KG is heavily investing…
Sumitomo Rubber's Q1 sales down 24 percent; falls into red
Added: 8 May 2009
ERJ staff report (DS)
Kobe, Japan -- Sumitomo Rubber reported a 24 percent fall in sales to yen 108 …
News from elsewhere on the web (08 May 2009)
Added: 8 May 2009
(7 items)
London--The following links showed up in our daily search for news on the web. Readers mig…
Clairoix workers storm Sarreguemines plant
Added: 8 May 2009
ERJ staff report (DS)
Hannover, Germany -- Continental has confirmed that workers from its Clairoix…
Rubber unions to meet in US next week
Added: 8 May 2009
ERJ staff report (DS)
Nashville, Tennessee -- Around 100 trade union leaders in the rubber sector fr…
Simrit to move to four-day workweek
Added: 8 May 2009
ERJ staff report (R&PN)
PLlymouth, Michigan -- Simrit, the industrial sealing division of Freudenber…
Q1 sales slump of 37 percent pushes Nokian into the red
Added: 7 May 2009
ERJ staff report (DS)
Helsinki, Finland -- Nokian Tyres reported the biggest first-quarter sales dec…
Michelin closes BR plant in Bassens for three weeks
Added: 7 May 2009
ERJ staff report (DS)
Paris -- Michelin has said its synthetic rubber factory in Bassens, France wil…
Lanxess says rubber sales volume fell 40 percent in Q1
Added: 7 May 2009
ERJ staff report (DS)
Leverkusen, Germany -- Lanxess AG said it sold 40 percent less rubber in the t…
Conti in talks to sell Clairoix plant as going concern
Added: 7 May 2009
ERJ staff report (DS)
Hannover, Germany -- Continental AG has said it is in talks with Middle-Easter…
ElringKlinger remains in profit, despite 20% fall in sales
Added: 7 May 2009
ERJ staff report (DS)
Dettingen/Erms, Germany -- In the first quarter of 2009, ElringKlinger reporte…
Goodyear seeks to raise $1000 million
Added: 7 May 2009
ERJ staff report (DS)
Akron, Ohio --- Goodyear is no longer seeking to raise just $500 million from …
Pallmann develops new NR granulator
Added: 7 May 2009
ERJ staff report (RD)
Zweibrücken, Germany - Pallmann, a family-owned manufacturer of size reducti…
Solutia's Flexsys unit sees sales down 34% in Q1
Added: 7 May 2009
ERJ staff report (RD)
St. Louis, Missouri - Solutia Inc has reported sales for it's Technical Speci…
