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Tire Tracker - SportContact for Audi RS 6

Added: 26 May 2023

Latest news on tire fitments, testing and related innovations...

SaarGummi opens new production plant in Poland

Added: 25 May 2023

Facility in Sedziszow Malopolski, southern Poland, manufactures both dynamic and static seals

Kemya, Continental Carbon start Saudi carbon black plant

Hankook, Kumho Petrochemical in 'eco-tire' link-up

Added: 25 May 2023

Korean companies sign MOU for production of tires with SSBR offering enhanced sustainability

Italian rubber processor Oldrati expanding in Turkey

Added: 25 May 2023

Group opens second production plant, with focus on silicone-based materials

Michelin-Sumitomo group divesting 595 retail shops

Added: 25 May 2023

TBC Corp. divesting retail network to focus on wholesale, distribution and franchise businesses

Yokohama Rubber tackles counterfeit sellers in China

Added: 25 May 2023

Foshan authorities simultaneously raided five companies and seized the counterfeit aluminium wheels

Trelleborg foam fenders for Mexican port upgrade

Trelleborg to build marine products plant in Vietnam under restructuring plan

Added: 24 May 2023

Restructure will see closures in The Netherlands, Singapore, manufacturing concentrated in Vietnam …

Euro 7 costs '10 times higher than EC estimates'

Added: 24 May 2023

ACEA warns that Brussels is vastly underestimating cost of new emissions proposals for industry and…

Goodyear fined over $1m for deaths at Danville plant

Goodyear facing probe over labour practices in Mexico

Added: 24 May 2023

Allegations of “obstructing worker freedom of association and right to collective bargaining...”

Bekaert rubber reinforcement unit reports China recovery

Added: 24 May 2023

Additional strong growth in India offsets impact of lower volumes in Europe, North America

Essentially Rubber – Smart rugby ball

Added: 24 May 2023

Leading-edge designs and applications showing how elastomer materials...

Arlanxeo to build butadiene rubber plant in Saudi Arabia

Added: 23 May 2023

Scheduled for operation in 2027, facility to manufacture NdBR and LiBR...

Michelin investing €93m to expand rubber-track production

Added: 23 May 2023

US project to add 200 jobs and increase capacity for Camso-branded agricultural tracks 

ContiTech says will close Veyance deal by yearend

Continental sells Russian tire production plant

Added: 23 May 2023

With sale to S8 Capital, Conti becomes second major player to fully exit from tire-manufacture in R…

Tokai posts 89% lift in carbon black earnings

Added: 23 May 2023

Business unit benefited significantly "by capturing strong US demand”

Cabot opens Asia technology centre in Shanghai

University project targets nano-tech for fire-proof elastomers

Added: 23 May 2023

Flame-retarding nano-scale additives to address the “limitations” of the existing products in the m…

EC approves €117m investment aid for Nexen Czech plant

Nexen mulls €1bn tire plant project in North America

Added: 22 May 2023

Korean tire maker studying locations in eight southern states for planned production facility

Kopernik helping rubber farmers to cap lost yields 

Rubber futures rise in markets lacking direction

Added: 22 May 2023

JPX reports trading volumes “sharply” down versus the previous trading week

Michelin to supply truck tires to UK fleet management firm

UK extends China tire imports review deadline for NTDA members

Added: 22 May 2023

Trade agency grants more time for ‘meaningful observations and evidence to be submitted’

Kuraray raises elastomer prices for third time in 2017

Kuraray projects earnings-reverse at isoprene unit

Added: 22 May 2023

Production and market issues to impact C5-based chemicals and elastomers business