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ANRPC calls for Hevea gene bank
Added: 15 Oct 2004
Port Moresby, PNG--Papua New Guinea's Agriculture minister has called for a gene bank to help impro…
Malaysians claim technology can double rubber yields
Added: 15 Oct 2004
Kuala Lumpur--Datuk Abdul Hamid Sawal, director-general of the Malaysian Rubber Board claims that t…
Daikin confirms acquisition of Cri-Tech Technologies
Added: 15 Oct 2004
ORANGEBURG, N.Y.--Japan's Daikin Industries Ltd. has bought fluoroelastomer compounder Cri-Tech Tec…
Bayer to plead guilty in NBR price-fixing case
Added: 14 Oct 2004
SAN FRANCISCO (Oct. 13)--Bayer A.G. has agreed to plead guilty to and pay a $4.7 million criminal f…
Sam Gibara reveals secrets in Canadian movie
Added: 14 Oct 2004
New York--Canadian film-maker Mark Achbar has made a movie--The Corporation --about corporate life.…
DuPont unit to hike Vamac prices
Added: 14 Oct 2004
WILMINGTON, Del. (Oct. 13)--DuPont Packaging & Industrial Polymers, North America, will increase pr…
European bank syndicate to finance Nokian's Russia plant
Added: 13 Oct 2004
LONDON (Oct. 12)--Nokian Tyres P.L.C. has negotiated a nine-year, $62 million loan with the Europea…
Gates confirms plan to end air springs production
Added: 13 Oct 2004
DENVER (Oct. 12)--Gates Corp. plans to exit the air springs industry on a timetable that allows for…
Eliokem postpones official opening of Shanghai plant
Added: 13 Oct 2004
Ningbo, China--Eliokem has postponed the official opening of its new anti-oxidant plant in Ningbo, …
Fort Dunlop redevelopment to go ahead
Added: 13 Oct 2004
Birmingham--Fort Dunlop, the spiritual home of tyre manufacture in the UK will be redeveloped into …
More RFID testing at Michelin
Added: 13 Oct 2004
Washington DC--Michelin is stepping up trials of the RFID (radio frequency identification) technolo…
Chinese Car prices to stabilise-temporarily
Added: 13 Oct 2004
Beijing--KPMG has published a report indicating that prices of new cars in China will stabilise in …
China bans all future cross-ply car tyre plants
Added: 13 Oct 2004
Beijing--In a long list of industrial projects that will in future be banned in China, the Chinese …
Global price hikes for Kraton G
Added: 12 Oct 2004
By Patrick Raleigh, ERJ On-line news editor
Houston, Texas-Kraton Polymers is increasing prices for …
Challenge Bibendum opens in Shanghai
Added: 12 Oct 2004
Shanghai, China--Michelin's Challenge Bibendum event opens today in Shanghai, with major automotive…
Chinese GDP growth to slow very slightly
Added: 12 Oct 2004
Beijing-China's economy is expected to grow by 9.4 percent in 2004, slowing marginally to 8.9 perce…
DSM raises Sarlink prices
Added: 12 Oct 2004
Geleen, the Netherlands--DSM Thermoplastic Elastomers (DTE) will raise its prices for Sarlink and K…
Study reports on China's domestic tyre makers
Added: 11 Oct 2004
Dublin--Research and Markets, a market intelligence retailer, is selling a report on the Chinese do…
ECCMR-4 set for Stockholm, June 2005; papers requested
Added: 11 Oct 2004
London--The fourth European Conference on Constitutive Models for Rubber will take place from June …
Nocil's debts to be paid by new owner
Added: 11 Oct 2004
Mumbai, India--New owner of National Organic Chemicals Industries Ltd (NOCIL), Reliance Group, is t…
