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Conti switches tube suppliers to Metro, from Sava
Added: 7 Apr 2004
Continental AG is to switch suppliers for the majority of its car tyre inner tubes to Metro Tyres o…
Dow Corning to cut 250 jobs
Added: 6 Apr 2004
From Rubber & Plastics News
MIDLAND, Mich. (April 5)--Dow Corning Corp. plans to cut 250 jobs, most…
Tyre pressure monitor displays get bad press
Added: 6 Apr 2004
As more car makers fit tyre pressure monitoring systems as standard, drivers are becoming used to t…
Super-stretch vinyl gloves said to be as stretchy as latex
Added: 6 Apr 2004
A company called Volk Protective Products is marketing a 'super-stretch' vinyl glove to pizza outle…
Bridgestone African subsidiary feels free trade pinch
Added: 6 Apr 2004
Firestone East Africa faces a series of problems, and the new managing director is only one month i…
Professor describes liquid crystal elastomers
Added: 6 Apr 2004
Speaking at the Institute of Physics Condensed Matter and Materials Physics Conference in Warwick, …
Plymouth Rubber 1st quarter results
Added: 6 Apr 2004
Plymouth Rubber Company, Inc.'s first quarter 2004 sales increased 9% to $14,822,000, from $13,543,…
Airboss to supply NBC gloves to US military
Added: 6 Apr 2004
Acton International Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of AirBoss of America Corp. has been awarded a …
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…
