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Mesnac expanding C5 products at green rubber plant

Added: 28 Apr 2025

To invest €37m in second phase of Panjin facility which started production of green rubber material…

UK parliament to debate export of used tires to India

Added: 28 Apr 2025

Tyre Recovery Association welcomes decision to further scrutinise waste tire sector

AirBoss secures two defence contracts for 'overboots', masks

Added: 28 Apr 2025

Worth up to $15.6m, contracts are from the Swiss defence forces and a separate partner nation

ETRMA reports “encouraging” signs in European tire markets

Michelin posts dip in first quarter sales on lower volumes

Added: 25 Apr 2025

French group links decline to lower OE demand across main market segments

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Trelleborg earnings up 8% on “solid" quarterly performance

Added: 25 Apr 2025

But "weakening of established trade relations is creating greater uncertainty than we have seen for…

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