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Best licenses glove patent to Microflex
Added: 14 Nov 2005
By Liz White, ERJ staff
Menlo, Georgia-Best Manufacturing Co. a leading industrial and medical glove…

Scapa says performance is improving as the year progresses
Added: 14 Nov 2005
By Liz White, ERJ staff
Blackburn, UK-Scapa Group plc is optimistic that its current performance is…

ICL Industrial Products raises prices for DSP's magnesia
Added: 14 Nov 2005
By Liz White, ERJ staff
Beer Sheeva, Israel-Dead Sea Periclase (DSP)-now the ICL Industrial Products…

NOK-Freudenberg ramping up in China
Added: 14 Nov 2005
By Nina Ying Sun, ERJ Akron Bureau
Shanghai, China-NOK-Freudenberg Group China, a partnership betwee…

Programme set for US seminar on health risks of butadiene/chloroprene
Added: 14 Nov 2005
Houston, Texas- An international symposium on, Evaluation of Butadiene and Chloroprene Health Risk…

SSL
Added: 14 Nov 2005
By Liz White, ERJ staff
London-Ian Martin, chairman of condom manufacturer and footcare specialist S…

Tenneco Automotive makes management changes
Added: 14 Nov 2005
By Liz White, ERJ staff
Lake Forest, Illinois-Tenneco Automotive has made Timothy Donovan the firm's…

Silicone rubber, epoxy used to preserve bodies by plastination
Added: 14 Nov 2005
By Jason Lea, ERJ Akron Bureau
Akron, Ohio-Gunther von Hagens, 60, inventor of the plastination proc…

Bandag's sales, earnings climb-but European business is down
Added: 14 Nov 2005
Muscatine, Iowa-Spurred by strong transportation business results, Bandag Inc. recorded improvement…

European elastomer test group appoints UK representative
Added: 14 Nov 2005
By Liz White, ERJ staff
Deventer, the Netherlands-Elastomer Research Testing BV will in future be re…

TPMS market to be worth over $1600 million in 2009
Added: 14 Nov 2005
From Rubber & Plastics News
Boston, Massachusetts-Thanks to the US government mandate, demand for ty…

West Pharmaceutical posts earnings, sales gains in second quarter
Added: 14 Nov 2005
From Rubber & Plastics News
Lionville, Pennsylvania-Medical components manufacturer West Pharmaceuti…

Avon issues profits warning, restructures management
Added: 14 Nov 2005
By Liz White, ERJ staff
Bradford on Avon, UK-Lower automotive production in North America plus high …

New history of rubber available
Added: 14 Nov 2005
A new book called Tears of the Tree: The Story of Rubber†has been published, written by John Lo…

Pirelli opens Romanian steelcord factory
Added: 14 Nov 2005
Pirelli steelcord has officially opened its joint-venture factory in Romania. The factory is run by…

Comerio Ercole to make Kobe-type mixers under licence
Added: 14 Nov 2005
By Liz White, ERJ staff
Busto Arsizio, Italy-Machinery maker Comerio Ercole SpA has signed a joint …

Cooper to pay another dividend
Added: 14 Nov 2005
By Liz White, ERJ staff
Findlay, Ohio- Cooper Tire & Rubber Co. is to pay a quarterly dividend of 10…

Rhein Chemie reminds users about lead elimination in automotive parts
Added: 14 Nov 2005
By Liz White, ERJ staff
Mannheim, Germany- Rhein Chemie Rheinau GmbH is warning rubber processors-es…

ContiTech opens Euro 5 million conveyor belt line in China
Added: 14 Nov 2005
By Liz White, ERJ staff
Changhzi, China-Shanxi-Phoenix Conveyor Belt Systems Co. Ltd, now part of Co…

Dow Corning adds LSR capacity in Wiesbaden, Germany
Added: 14 Nov 2005
Wiesbaden, Germany--Dow Corning Corp. has announced that it will increase manufacturing capacity of…