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Sri Lanka's Laugfs Rubber adding solid tyre capacity
Added: 24 Aug 2007
Colombo, Sri Lanka -Â Laugfs Rubber (Pvt.) Ltd. is investing $3 million this year to add capacity a…
UK announces coordinated tyre safety campaign
Added: 24 Aug 2007
London -Â TyreSafe, the UK's tyre safety organisation, is co-ordinating a national tyre safety mont…
Dow Reichhold raises NBR latex price
Added: 24 Aug 2007
Research Triangle Park, North Carolina -Â Dow Reichhold Specialty Latex is increasing the price for…
Bekaert closes Australian JV steelcord plant
Added: 24 Aug 2007
Geelong, Australia -Â The joint owners of Bekaert Australia Steel Cord Pty Ltd have decided to clos…
Hexagon Polymers buys US compounding company
Added: 24 Aug 2007
Middlefield, Ohio -Â Hexagon Polymers is to buy the privately-held American rubber compounding comp…
UN recognises condom campaign with Grand Award
Added: 23 Aug 2007
New York -An Indian media relations campaign aimed at promoting the consistent use of condoms as pa…
Conti Auto Systems opens Tech centre in Japan
Added: 23 Aug 2007
Yokohama, Japan -Â The Automotive Systems Division of Continental AG has opened its new engineering…
News from elsewhere on the web 23/August/07
Added: 23 Aug 2007
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London--The following links showed up in our daily search for news on the web. Readers mi…
Moscow plant has made a million Amtel tyres
Added: 23 Aug 2007
Moscow, Russia ? Amtel-Vredestein NV said one million Amtel tyres have been produced at its Moscow …
Columbian starts carbon black operations in Brazil
Added: 23 Aug 2007
Marietta, Georgia - Columbian Chemicals Co. has officially opened its newest plant in Camaçari Po…
Yokohama to build test track in Thailand
Added: 23 Aug 2007
TOKYO (Aug. 22, 2007) - Yokohama Rubber Co. Ltd. has received permission from Thai officials to bui…
Bridgestone to expand plants in India, Indonesia
Added: 23 Aug 2007
Tokyo - Bridgestone Corp. will expand capacity for car and light truck tyres at plants in India and…
Designer watch uses rubber, plastics
Added: 22 Aug 2007
New York - A new range of fashion watches from US-based design company Nooka, features a non-conve…
UK politicians propose rubber wheels for trains
Added: 22 Aug 2007
London - A submission to the opposition party leadership has proposed converting UK trains to rubbe…
News from elsewhere on the web 22/August/07
Added: 22 Aug 2007
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London--The following links showed up in our daily search for news on the web. Readers mi…
ITC affirms Titan's OTR tyre dumping assertions
Added: 22 Aug 2007
Washington DC - Tire International Inc.'s bid to get duties imposed on certain off-the-road (OTR) t…
Maxxis counts as top brand in Taiwan
Added: 22 Aug 2007
Taipei, Taiwan -Â Maxxis joins a list of computer and communications companies in an annual survey …
Degussa expands tech centre in Shanghai
Added: 21 Aug 2007
Shanghai, China - Degussa (China) Co., Ltd. has expanded its R&D Center in Shanghai, at a total inv…
Trelleborg Rubore to build $10 million tech centre in Detroit
Added: 21 Aug 2007
By Amy Lane, Crain's Detroit Business
Växjö, Sweden - Jennifer Granholm, the Michigan State Govern…
Synergy Drive to bring 8 Malaysian plantation companies together
Added: 21 Aug 2007
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia -Â A new company in Malaysia called Synergy Drive is aiming to dominate the …
