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BFS announces retirements, staff changes
Added: 6 Dec 2007
Nashville, Tennessee -- Masao Wada, president of Bridgestone
Firestone Manufacturing Operations, wil…
EC imposes fines of €243 million on members of chloroprene cartel
Added: 5 Dec 2007
ERJ staff report (DS)
Brussels -- The European Commission has fined producers of chloroprene rubber …
CGS buys Konty-G Czech rubber compounder
Added: 5 Dec 2007
By David Shaw, ERJ staff
Zlin, Czech Republic -- CGS as (previously known as Ceska gumarenska spolec…
Apollo selects Simulia CAD modelling system
Added: 5 Dec 2007
ERJ staff report (DS)
Paris, France -- Apollo Tyres Ltd. is using Abaqus Unified Finite Element Ana…
Rapra publishes European plastics and rubber directory
Added: 5 Dec 2007
ERJ staff report (DS)
Shrewsbury, UK -- Smithers Rapra has published the latest edition of its direc…
Kraton raises prices around the world
Added: 5 Dec 2007
ERJ staff report (DS)
Houston, Texas -- Effective 1 Jan., 2008, Kraton Polymers will increase its pr…
Huber raises silica prices
Added: 5 Dec 2007
ERJ staff report (DS)
Atlanta, Georgia -- Huber Engineered Materials (HEM), part of J.M. Huber Corpo…
News from elsewhere on the web (05/Dec/07)
Added: 5 Dec 2007
(9 items)
London--The following links showed up in our daily search for news on the web. Readers mig…
Lake to distribute for Beijing Odyssey in UK
Added: 5 Dec 2007
ERJ staff report (DS)
Redditch, UK -- Lake Chemicals and Minerals Ltd. is now the sole UK and Irelan…
Cooper appoints executives at Asian operations
Added: 5 Dec 2007
Tire Business staff report
FIindlay, Ohio -- Cooper Tire & Rubber Co. has named Allen Tsaur vice pre…
Kumho recruits former Conti man to head US tech centre
Added: 5 Dec 2007
Tire Business staff report
Rancho Cucamonga, California -- Kumho Tire USA Inc. has named Terry Edwar…
Michelin's Toul restructuring to cost Eur 130 million
Added: 4 Dec 2007
ERJ staff report (DS)
Paris -- Michelin has told employees that the closure of the Toul plant in 200…
Yokohama puts environmental report on website
Added: 4 Dec 2007
ERJ staff report (DS)
Tokyo - The Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd., has put an English version of its "Envi…
Performance Fibers buys some Invista operations in US
Added: 4 Dec 2007
ERJ staff report (DS)
Richmond, Virginia -- Performance Fibers Holdings, Inc. will, through a subsid…
Ohio grants $20m loan to cover Goodyear parking lot for new world HQ
Added: 4 Dec 2007
ERJ staff report (DS)
Columbus, Ohio -- Lee Fisher, the Lieutenant Governor of Ohio announced a $20 …
WTO upholds EU's right to export retreads to Brazil
Added: 4 Dec 2007
ERJ staff report (DS)
Geneva -- The highest court in the World Trade Organisation (WTO) has upheld a…
News from elsewhere on the web (04/Dec/07)
Added: 4 Dec 2007
(12 items)
London--The following links showed up in our daily search for news on the web. Readers mi…
BFS to close Mexico City plant in 2008
Added: 4 Dec 2007
MEexico City -- Bridgestone Firestone de Mexico S.A. de C.V. will close its Mexico City tyre plant …
Goodyear names Xerox executive director
Added: 4 Dec 2007
Akron, Ohio -- Goodyear has named James Firestone, president of Xerox North America, to the tire ma…
European synthetic cork makers win patent battle
Added: 4 Dec 2007
By Peter Mapleston
A group of Italian plastics companies have won their fight to cancel a European p…
