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Lanxess raises prices for technical rubbers
Added: 24 Jan 2005
Leverkusen, Germany-Lanxess AG has raised prices for its technical rubbers, from 1 Jan, subject to …
Avon closing one hose site, opening another in Turkey
Added: 21 Jan 2005
By Liz White, ERJ staff
Bradford-on-Avon, UK-Avon Rubber plc is planning to close a European hose pl…
Columbian evaluates Brazil site for new carbon black plant
Added: 21 Jan 2005
Marietta, Georgia. - Columbian Chemicals Co. is evaluating building a new carbon black manufacturin…
Carbon black demand to reach 10m tonnes in 2010
Added: 21 Jan 2005
Amherst, Massachussetts--Notch Consulting Group has published the Carbon Black World Data Book 2004…
Carbon Black makers set up Tsunami aid fund
Added: 21 Jan 2005
Chennai, India--Anil Kumar and others in the Asia Pacific Carbon Black Association have set up a …
News from elsewhere on the web
Added: 21 Jan 2005
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Cabot breaks ground on fumed silica facility in Jiangxi, China
Added: 21 Jan 2005
Beijing, China--Cabot Corp. has broken ground on its fumed silica manufacturing facility in Jiangxi…
Freedonia publishes report on US gasket/seal market
Added: 21 Jan 2005
Cleveland, Ohio--Freedonia Group has published a new study into the US demand for gaskets and seals…
IISRP publishes Synthetic Rubber Manual
Added: 21 Jan 2005
Houston, Texas--The International Institute of Synthetic Rubber Producers (IISRP) has published the…
DuPont Dow to pay $84 million fine in CR price-fixing
Added: 20 Jan 2005
Wilmington, Delaware --DuPont Dow Elastomers LLC has agreed to plead guilty to price-fixing of poly…
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Added: 20 Jan 2005
London--The following links showed up in our daily search for news on the web. Readers might be int…
Pirelli offers €25000 for clear explanation of relativity
Added: 20 Jan 2005
Milan, Italy--as part of its Pirelli Internetional Award (sic), Pirelli is offering a prize of up t…
Comerio Ercole buys Meccaniche Moderne rubber business
Added: 20 Jan 2005
Busto Arsizio, Italy--Comerio Ercole SpA has bought the rubber machinery interests of Meccaniche M…
Degussa lifts capacity at Chinese carbon black plant-again
Added: 20 Jan 2005
By Liz White, ERJ staff
Düsseldorf, Germany-Degussa AG plans to further expand capacity of its Qing…
Workers at Michelin's Stoke, UK plant to have strike vote
Added: 20 Jan 2005
Stoke-on-trent, UK--Members of the Transport and General Workers' Union at the Michelin tyre factor…
Matador expanding Puchov plant again
Added: 20 Jan 2005
By Liz White, ERJ staff
Slovakian tyre maker Matador AS is installing a new K7 mixer and weighing an…
SNCP appoints Marostegan as secretary general
Added: 20 Jan 2005
The directors of the French rubber manufacturers' association, the Syndicat National du Caoutchouc …
News from elsewhere on the web
Added: 19 Jan 2005
London--The following links showed up in our daily search for news on the web. Readers might be int…
News from elsewhere on the web
Added: 18 Jan 2005
London--The following links showed up in our daily search for news on the web. Readers might be int…
Conti may sell OTR plant in US
Added: 18 Jan 2005
BRYAN, Ohio (Jan. 17)--Continental A.G. is engaged in talks with an unnamed potential buyer to sell…
