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Dätwyler's Rubber+Plastics business in good form

Added: 27 Aug 2004

By Liz White, ERJ staff

Altdorf, Switzerland-The Rubber+Plastics Division of Swiss group Dätwyler p…

Amtel raises revenue, achieves 64 % profit rise

Added: 27 Aug 2004

By Liz White, ERJ staff

Moscow-Amtel Holdings Holland raised its revenue by 19 percent to $383 milli…

Trelleborg to consolidate UK profiles at Minworth, close Telford unit

Added: 27 Aug 2004

By Liz White, ERJ staff

Trelleborg, Sweden-A Trelleborg spokeswoman has confirmed newspaper reports …

New advice on threading calenders from UK safety body

Added: 27 Aug 2004

By Liz White, ERJ staff

London-Tyre and rubber processors who use calenders should make working cond…

Crompton reduces antiozonant capacity-to improve profitability

Added: 27 Aug 2004

By Liz White, ERJ staff

Middlebury, Connecticut-Crompton Corp. announced 20 Aug that it is reducing …

New look online sales for European Rubber Journal products

Added: 25 Aug 2004

European Rubber Journal products and subscriptions can now be ordered securely on-line through the …

SaarGummi sold to holding fund

Added: 24 Aug 2004

By Liz White, ERJ staff

Saarbrücken, Germany-RAG Saarberg AG has signed to sell its wholly owned Sa…

BASF launching new TPE at K 2004

Added: 24 Aug 2004

By Liz White, ERJ staff

Ludwigshafen, Germany-BASF AG is to release Oppanol IBS-an innovative produc…

Dow Corning raising capacity as demand soars

Added: 24 Aug 2004

By Liz White, ERJ staff

Midland, Michigan-Dow Corning Corp.'s is raising production of silicon-based…

Cheng Shin expanding Kunshan operation again

Added: 23 Aug 2004

By Liz White, ERJ staff

Nottingham, UK-The Cheng Shin-Toyo Tire & Rubber Co. factory at Kunshan City…

Hexagon acquires Italian wheel maker, plans further capacity rise

Added: 23 Aug 2004

By Liz White, ERJ staff

Stockholm-Swedish engineering group Hexagon AB has acquired all the operatin…

Ansell's sales, earnings up

Added: 20 Aug 2004

Red Bank, New Jersey-Ansell Ltd's sales and earnings rose for the fiscal year ended June 30, driven…

Michelin-Conti to open US tire/wheel plant

Added: 20 Aug 2004

Vance, Alabama-TW Fitting NA llc, a Groupe Michelin/Continental AG joint venture, is setting up a p…

Nokian Tyres H-1 sales, earnings soar

Added: 20 Aug 2004

Nokian, Finland-Nokian Tyres plc posted double-digit gains in both earnings and sales in the first …

Dieffenbacher exits rubber machinery, shifts focus

Added: 20 Aug 2004

By Brad Dawson, ERJ Akron Bureau

 

Windsor, Ontario-Dieffenbacher North America Inc. has sold its ru…

Auto supplier plans to float on Thai exchange

Added: 19 Aug 2004

CPR Gomu Industrial Co, a supplier of rubber components to Thailand's automotive sector plans to se…

Magnifoam purchase of RBX's Groendyk business approved

Added: 19 Aug 2004

ROANOKE, Va. (Aug. 17)--A Virginia bankruptcy court has approved the sale of RBX Corp.'s Groendyk d…

India's rubber imports rocket in Q1

Added: 17 Aug 2004

Natural rubber imports into India were 65 percent higher in the three months to June 2004, compared…

Goodyear closes Guatemala tyre plant

Added: 17 Aug 2004

AKRON (Aug. 16)--Goodyear closed its Gran Industria de Neumaticos Centroamericana S.A. tyre plant i…

Vote for Bibendum (or not)

Added: 17 Aug 2004

Yahoo and the American Association of Advertising Agencies (AAAA) are together trying to find out w…