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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…

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…