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India may produce over 700 kt of rubber in 2004
Added: 26 Mar 2004
HIgher prices for rubber have stimulated Indian farmers to take more care of their trees, resulting…
Turkey bans tyre industry strike
Added: 26 Mar 2004
By Patrick Raleigh, ERJ On-line news editor
Brussels-Turkey's government has banned a strike by Last…
Hexagon buys Thona-becomes top European rubber compounder
Added: 25 Mar 2004
By Liz White, ERJ staff
Stockholm-Hexagon Polymers has become the leading rubber compounding busines…
Dow Corning reduces costs of organo-silanes for silica compounds
Added: 25 Mar 2004
Dow Corning has announced a new process for making the organosilanes used in the tyre industry to a…
Cooper wants to sell non-tyre division
Added: 25 Mar 2004
From Rubber & Plastics News
Findlay, Ohio-Cooper Tire & Rubber Co. is exploring the possibility of s…
Failed tyre reef may be exhumed
Added: 25 Mar 2004
A failed artificial reef made from discarded tyres off Fort Lauderdale, Florida, may be dredged up,…
Dunlop moves advertising account to Goodyear's supplier
Added: 25 Mar 2004
Dunlop Europe has chosen London-based Claydon Heeley Jones Mason to handle its 'below-the-line" adv…
MRF plans investment programme
Added: 25 Mar 2004
MRF, the Indian tyre maker, is planning Rs 150 crore (€27 million) in capital expenditure in the …
BMW one-series to use 100 percent runflat tyres
Added: 25 Mar 2004
BMW AG's new 1-series compact executive saloon is to use all runflat tyres as standard and in all o…
Berstorff introduces quad extruder head for tyre makers
Added: 24 Mar 2004
As part of a new tread extrusion line for a world-leading tyre manufacturer, Berstorff GmbH of Hann…
Japanese tyre makers move to China-- report
Added: 24 Mar 2004
A report in Jiji Press suggests that Japanese tyre makers are investing in tyre-building capacity i…
Firestone East Africa to invest in building line
Added: 24 Mar 2004
Firestone East Africa, the Kenya-based tyre maker, is reportedly investing 114 million Kenyan shill…
Kwik-Fit may sell Irish tyre stores to Bridgestone
Added: 24 Mar 2004
CVC Capital partners, owner of the Kwik-Fit vehicle repair company, is reportedly negotiating the s…
Strike at RMS Equipment finally ends
Added: 24 Mar 2004
Members of the United Steelworkers of America, have ended a strike at rubber machinery maker, RMS E…
India to continue subsidies for rubber exports
Added: 23 Mar 2004
India is likely to continue to offer export subsidies to NR producers, even though local tyre maker…
Ciba moves to raise antioxidant production in China
Added: 23 Mar 2004
By Patrick Raleigh, ERJ On-line news editor
Basel, Switzerland- Ciba Specialty Chemicals is to incre…
South African auto park attracts rubber business
Added: 23 Mar 2004
Tensile Rubber Mouldings is among seven companies to have set up in the Automotive Supplier Park in…
South African hose maker profiled in local paper
Added: 23 Mar 2004
Cape Flexible Hose, based in Kuilsriver, near CapeTown, South Africa, makes hoses using mandrels an…
More tyre price increases in Japan
Added: 23 Mar 2004
Bridgestone Corp. is raising replacement tyre prices in Japan by a further 5- to 6-percent, effecti…
Rapra plans rubber open day April 20th
Added: 22 Mar 2004
Rapra Technology ltd has designated 20 April, 2004 as an open day for rubber moulders at its Shrews…
