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Toyo setting up separate US sales company for Nitto brand
Added: 28 Jun 2005
Osaka, Japan --Toyo Tire & Rubber Co. Ltd. will spin off the Nitto brand division of its Toyo Tire …

Goodyear selling Wingtack adhesives resins unit
Added: 28 Jun 2005
Akron, Ohio --Goodyear has agreed to sell its Wingtack adhesives resins business to Sartomer Co. In…

BRMA director, Dorken walks for charity
Added: 28 Jun 2005
London--John Dorken, Honorary Secretary of the charity Medical Aid and Relief for the Children of C…

Study: Suppliers add r&d, risk
Added: 27 Jun 2005
By Ulrich Viehover
June 27, 2005
Stuttgart, Germany -- European automakers are forcing suppliers to t…

Big suppliers got bigger in '04
Added: 27 Jun 2005
By Bradford Wernle, Automotive News
Automakers are racing to load vehicles with more features and ga…

Folz wants scrap incentive
Added: 27 Jun 2005
PARIS -- The CEO of PSA/Peugeot-Citroen SA has proposed that European governments pay owners of old…

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Added: 27 Jun 2005
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AirBoss clears Phase II testing for gloves, boots
Added: 27 Jun 2005
Newmarket, Ontario --AirBoss of America Corp. was the sole company to clear Phase II testing for ov…

Delphi hires Federal-Mogul´s Miller as CEO, chairman
Added: 27 Jun 2005
Troy, Michigan --Delphi Corp. has hired Robert "Steve" Miller to be its second chairman and CEO eff…

Wire Rope Corp. buys Mexican bead wire producer
Added: 27 Jun 2005
St. Joseph, Missouri --Wire Rope Corp. of America Inc. has purchased Mexican wire producer Aceros C…

Lauren International names Gray new CEO
Added: 27 Jun 2005
New Philadelphia, Ohio --Lauren International, Inc. has appointed Kevin Gray, a 22-year company vet…

Kwik-Fit sold, but not to Bridgestone
Added: 24 Jun 2005
London--AFX and the Financial Times are reporting that Kwik-Fit, the UK-based tyre retail chain has…

Regent launches deproteinised NR latex glove
Added: 24 Jun 2005
By Liz White, ERJ staff
London-A new surgical glove, launched in London 23 May is, “the latex glov…

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Added: 24 Jun 2005
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Michelin to transfer CV tyre production to Tours from Poitiers
Added: 24 Jun 2005
Paris--reports in French newspapers indicate that Michelin plans to transfer production of commerci…

Michelin's payments to UK pension fund were not to "Plug a black hole"
Added: 24 Jun 2005
Paris--In an unusual step, Michelin has issued a forceful denial that payments it made to a UK empl…

Sen. Schumer offers tyre fuel efficiency amendment to energy bill
Added: 24 Jun 2005
Washington DC--Repeating his actions of two years ago, Sen. Charles Schumer, (Democrat for N.Y.), i…

More rumblings over Indianapolis - Mosley's view
Added: 24 Jun 2005
Paris--Max Mosley, presedent of the Federation Internationale de l'Automobile, has given an intervi…

UK motorists waste £1000 million on fuel, tyres, due to underinflation
Added: 23 Jun 2005
Melksham, UK--Cooper-Avon Tyres claims that UK motorists waste over £1000 million each year becaus…

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Added: 23 Jun 2005
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