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Apollo Tyres predicts 18 percent sales growth
Added: 6 Apr 2004
Apollo Tyres expects to continue its historical growth rate of sales increasing by 18 percent each …
Property developer buys Pirelli's Hanford site
Added: 6 Apr 2004
STG Group, a real estate investment firm, has bought the former Pirelli factory and warehouse in Ha…
Russia to build condom plant
Added: 2 Apr 2004
A Russian company, Bezopasny Seks ("safe sex" in Russian), is planning to invest $2.6 million to bu…
Vietnamese firm starts tyre, tube exports to Thailand
Added: 2 Apr 2004
The Southern Rubber Industry Company of Casumina, Vietnam will begin shipping car tyres and inner t…
IRSG rubber forum closes in Cameroon
Added: 2 Apr 2004
Cameroon's Minister of Agriculture, Augustin Fréderic Kodock, closed the International Rubber Foru…
Flexsys plant in Nitro, West Virginia closes
Added: 2 Apr 2004
Flexsys North America has laid off 38 workers at its Nitro West Virginia plant, after ending manufa…
Tokyo Steel, Junma to make steelcord in China -- report
Added: 1 Apr 2004
A report in yesterday's (March 31) Nikkei says that Tokyo Steel Manufacturing Co.and Junma Chemical…
Goodyear's Keegan joins SRI board
Added: 31 Mar 2004
Robert Keegan, chairman and chief executive officer of The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company, has been…
Speciality silica market in surplus says study
Added: 31 Mar 2004
A new study into the global speciality silicas market has found the sector is over-supplied, but st…
Brazilians approve condoms made from rainforest latex
Added: 31 Mar 2004
The Brazilian government's plans to set up a condom factory in the Brazilian rainforest have been g…
India exports 60 kt rubber in first 11 months
Added: 31 Mar 2004
Indian exports of natural rubber reached 61.2 kt in the first 11 months of the fiscal year 2003-04.…
Datuk Seri Dr Lim Keng Yaik leaves Ministry after 18 years
Added: 31 Mar 2004
Datuk Seri Dr Lim Keng Yaik has left the Malaysian Ministry of Primary Industries after 18 years, i…
Sabina starts butadiene production
Added: 31 Mar 2004
By Patrick Raleigh ERJ On-line news editor
Port Arthur, Texas-Sabina Petrochemicals LLC's world sca…
Lyondell to take over Millennium Chemicals
Added: 30 Mar 2004
By Patrick Raleigh, ERJ On-line news editor
Houston, Texas-Lyondell Chemical Co. and Millennium Chem…
Rhein Chemie boss expects stronger 2004
Added: 30 Mar 2004
By Patrick Raleigh, ERJ On-line news editor
Mannheim, Germany-Rhein Chemie Rheinau GmbH is anticipat…
SR containers use RFID chips for pay-per-use model
Added: 30 Mar 2004
Trenstar has introduced a reusable aluminium container for shipping synthetic rubber. The container…
Dodge Ram SRT-10 uses VIbracoustic AV mounts
Added: 30 Mar 2004
Vibracoustic North America, the vibration control business of Freudenberg-NOK, supplies a specially…
Hong Kong plans 'green' tyre tax
Added: 30 Mar 2004
Hong Kong government is discussing a 'green' tax on tyres that would cost around HK$40 per vehicle,…
India to impose tighter tyre regulation
Added: 30 Mar 2004
India is to regulate the tyres being fitted to new vehicles. From September 2004, according to a re…
Oregonians debate value of Beven's pyrolysis machine
Added: 30 Mar 2004
A tyre pyrolysis system invented by UK resident, Herbert Beven is under debate in Oregon. Beven say…
