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Xiameter introduces sulphur silanes to its product line
Added: 14 Dec 2007
ERJ staff report (SS) Midland, Michigan -- Xiameter, Dow Corning's web-enabled business, has announ…
NASA and Goodyear to develop moon tyre
Added: 14 Dec 2007
ERJ staff report (SS) Akron, Ohio -- Goodyear Tyres and the NASA Glenn Research Center are working …
Michelin on Chinese pollution blacklist
Added: 14 Dec 2007
By David Shaw, ERJ staff
Beijing -- Michelin has been listed on the Chinese environmental agency's w…
News from elsewhere on the web (14/Dec/07)
Added: 14 Dec 2007
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London--The following links showed up in our daily search for news on the web. Readers mi…
Malaysian NR production continues decline in October
Added: 14 Dec 2007
ERJ staff report (DS)
Kuala Lumpur -- Malaysia's slow decline as a producer of natural rubber contin…
OFT to clarify facts in marine hose cartel
Added: 14 Dec 2007
ERJ staff report (SS) London -- The Office of Fair Trading has announced that it will release an of…
DPE's Louisville CR plant will finally close in March
Added: 14 Dec 2007
ERJ staff report (DS)
Louisville, Kentucky -- DuPont Performance Elastomers is to finally cease prod…
Michelin restructuring in Spain to cost Euro 143 million
Added: 14 Dec 2007
ERJ staff report (DS)
Paris -- Michelin said its previously-announced restructuring operations in Sp…
Dow increases prices for SBR and Nordel grades
Added: 14 Dec 2007
Horgen, Switzerland - From 1 Jan 2008 Dow Europe GmbH will increase its prices in Europe for synthe…
Lanxess buys controlling stake in Petroflex
Added: 14 Dec 2007
ERJ staff report (DS)
Leverkusen, Germany -- Lanxess is to buy about 70 percent of the equity in Pet…
Lanxess adds new accelerator process at Antwerp
Added: 13 Dec 2007
ERJ staff report (DS)
Leverkusen, Germany -- Lanxess Rubber Chemicals (RUC) business unit is investi…
Conti warns against rolling resistance labelling
Added: 13 Dec 2007
ERJ staff report (DS)
Hanover, Germany -- Dr. Burkhard Wies, Continental's head of replacement passe…
Freedonia reports on TPE market
Added: 13 Dec 2007
ERJ staff report (DS)
Cleveland, Ohio -- The Freedonia group has published a new report titled, "Wor…
News from elsewhere on the web (13/Dec/07)
Added: 13 Dec 2007
(9 items)
London--The following links showed up in our daily search for news on the web. Readers mig…
US scientists develop shape-memory rubber
Added: 13 Dec 2007
ERJ staff report (DS)
Rochester, New York -- Scientists at the University of Rochester in New York h…
US Commerce Department says Chinese OTR tyre imports are subsidised
Added: 13 Dec 2007
Washington DC -- The US Commerce Department has made a preliminary determination that Chinese off-t…
USW members approve contract extension at BFS plant
Added: 13 Dec 2007
Bloomington Illinois -- Union members at the Bridgestone/Firestone (BFS) off-the-road (OTR) tyre pl…
Three marine hose execs to serve jail sentences in UK
Added: 13 Dec 2007
ERJ staff report (DS)
Washington, DC -- Three UK executives who admitted to fixing prices in the glo…
Hungary denies claims it has withheld Hankook subsidies
Added: 12 Dec 2007
By David Shaw
Budapest -- A spokeswoman for The Hungarian Investment and Trade Development Agency ha…
UK execs face fines, jail in Marine Hose case - report
Added: 12 Dec 2007
ERJ staff report (DS)
Houston, Texas -- Three UK executives have entered their plea-bargaining agree…
