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Canada OKs use of super single truck tyres

Added: 19 Jun 2008

Tire Business staff report

OTTAWA, Ontario (June 18, 2008) - Canada's Council of Ministers Responsib…

Cooper to acquire stake in Mexican tire plant

Added: 19 Jun 2008

Tire Business staff report

Fondlay, Ohio-- Cooper Tire & Rubber Co. is investing $31 million and tak…

PPG raising price of silica

Added: 18 Jun 2008

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania -- PPG Industries Inc. is enacting a price increase of as much as 20 perce…

Nisseki Chemical joins IISRP

Added: 18 Jun 2008

Houston, Texas -- Nisseki Chemical Texas Inc. is the latest company to join the International Insti…

DuPont to raise Viton prices 10 percent

Added: 18 Jun 2008

Wilmington, Delaware-- DuPont Performance Elastomers said it will raise prices on Viton fluoroelast…

PolymerLatex hikes prices, reviews plants

Added: 18 Jun 2008

Marl, Germany (June 17, 2008) -- PolymerLatex GmbH & Co. K.G. said it is hiking prices for all its …

1 dead, 6 injured in Goodyear SBR plant accident

Added: 18 Jun 2008

By Steve Dudukovich, Rubber & Plastics News Staff

Houston, Texas -- One employee was killed and six …

Tyre firms' CEOs to research tyres' health issues

Added: 18 Jun 2008

Tokyo -- The chief executive officers of tyre companies in the US, Japan, South Korea and Europe ap…

Turkish tyre workers agree new pact, end strike

Added: 18 Jun 2008

Istanbul, Turkey -- Workers at tyre plants of Bridgestone Corp., Goodyear and Pirelli Tyre S.p.A. a…

Chinese silane maker sets up European office

Added: 11 Jun 2008

ERJ staff report (DS)

Eindhoven, Netherlands -- Nanjing Shuguang Chemical Group Co., Ltd., a leading…

Cooper moves to moulding instead of extrusion for seals

Added: 11 Jun 2008

ERJ staff report (DS)

Vitré, France -- Cooper Standard Automotive is gradually switching away from …

Becker leaves Goodyear to become Apollo's head of research & technology

Added: 11 Jun 2008

ERJ staff report (DS)

Gurgaon, India -- Apollo Tyres has named a German national as chief of researc…

Sentences due today in UK Marine hose case

Added: 11 Jun 2008

ERJ staff report (DS)

London -- Bryan Allison, David Brammar and Peter Whittle admitted participatin…

Indian agency orders 1.5 million female condoms

Added: 11 Jun 2008

ERJ staff report (DS)

Chicago, Illinois -- The Female Health Company (FHC) said its technical collab…

News from elsewhere on the web (11 June 2008)

Added: 11 Jun 2008

(11 items)

London--The following links showed up in our daily search for news on the web. Readers mi…

Michelin to raise truck & bus tyre prices in Asia-Pacific

Added: 11 Jun 2008

ERJ staff report (DS)

Clermont-Ferrand, France -- Michelin is increasing truck and bus tyre prices s…

Trelleborg to close Canadian plant

Added: 11 Jun 2008

GUuelph, Ontario -- Trelleborg Sealing Solutions will close its Guelph, Ontario, plant as part of t…

TBWA reportedly to take over Michelin's advertising account

Added: 11 Jun 2008

By Rupal Parekh and Jean Halliday

New York (AdAge.com) -- Michelin North America is set to hand its…

Transparent TPEs from ExxonMobil

Added: 11 Jun 2008

ERJ staff report (DS)

Houston Texas -- ExxonMobil Chemical has introduced transparent and translucen…

New York Health dept reports on safety of artificial turf

Added: 10 Jun 2008

ERJ staff report (DS)

New York -- A new report from the New York City Department of Health and writt…