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DSM Elastomers to invest in Triunfo, Brazil
Added: 28 Mar 2007
Geleen, the Netherlands - DSM Elastomers is to add a reactive extrusion facility at its EPDM factor…

DSM launches new Keltan brand strategy.
Added: 28 Mar 2007
Geleen, Netherlands - DSM Elastomers "relaunched" its Keltan brand during a news conference in Gele…

European truck market up on a year ago, buses decline
Added: 28 Mar 2007
Brussels - Registrations of heavy trucks in february 2007 were almost 12 percent up on the figure f…

Lobby group demands NHTSA's EWR data under US Freedom of Information act
Added: 28 Mar 2007
Washington DC -Â A US company has filed a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit in federal District C…

RIEG announces new seminar dates
Added: 28 Mar 2007
London -Â The Rubber in Engineering Group (RIEG) of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining…

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Added: 28 Mar 2007
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Report analyses global industrial rubber goods market to 2010
Added: 28 Mar 2007
Lyons, France - new report claims to analyse the worldwide markets for industrial rubber products …

Amtel-Vredestein to issue Euro bonds
Added: 27 Mar 2007
Enschede, The Netherlands - Amtel-Vredestein NV said it intends to issue an unspecified amount of e…

DSM Elastomers relaunches as innovation-focussed company
Added: 27 Mar 2007
By David Shaw, ERJ staff
Sittard, Netherlands -- DSM Elastomers is on a charm offensive with custome…

News from elsewhere on the web 27/Mar/2007
Added: 27 Mar 2007
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Goodyear's EP unit goes to Carlyle group
Added: 26 Mar 2007
Washington, DC - Global private equity firm
The Carlyle Group announced on Friday that it has signed…

Dow to hopes to revitalise its wire & cable business
Added: 21 Mar 2007
Horgen, Switzerland - Dow Wire & Cable, a global business of The Dow Chemical Company, has said it …

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Added: 21 Mar 2007
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Russian Parliament sets up tyre strategy committee
Added: 21 Mar 2007
Moscow - Russia is to hold the first meeting of its newly-formed "subcommittee on the development o…

Lanxess butyl capacity -- update
Added: 20 Mar 2007
Leverkusen, Germany - Lanxess' CEO, Axel Heitmann said, "The steadily rising demand for butyl rubbe…

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Added: 20 Mar 2007
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Lanxess continues path to recovery, heads for Asia
Added: 20 Mar 2007
Leverkusen, Germany - Lanxess AG's rubber activities continued to increase prices through the last …

Berstorff to merge with Krauss-Maffei
Added: 19 Mar 2007
Munich, Germany - Mannesmann Plastics Machinery Group (MPM) has announced sweeping structural chang…

Wetche named as CFO at Performance Fibers
Added: 19 Mar 2007
Richmond, Virginia - Performance Fibers, Inc. has named Torben Wetche vice president and chief fina…

News from elsewhere on the web 19/Mar/07
Added: 19 Mar 2007
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