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US Beadwire maker Insteel to cease OTC share trading
Added: 24 Feb 2004
Shares in troubled wire maker Insteel Industries Inc. will no longer be traded on the Over-the-coun…
China trade surplus to fall in 2004
Added: 24 Feb 2004
Analysts predict Chinese imports will grow faster than exports, but exports to the EU are likely to…
Vietnamese rubber industry booms
Added: 24 Feb 2004
Accordng to the VN Economy story, "By late 2003, Vietnam had 450,000 hectares of rubber trees givin…
Rubber pad in shopping trolley helps bad backs
Added: 24 Feb 2004
A re-design of the humble shopping trolley has introduced a rubber shelf within the trolley. The sh…
Vietnamese industrial output surges
Added: 24 Feb 2004
Factories based in the Vietnamese city of Ha Noi produced more rubber goods than ever last year, wi…
Indian NR growers think buyers abuse visual grading system
Added: 24 Feb 2004
A special report from the Hindu Business Line, suggests that Indian growers believe large buyers us…
India imposes definitive dumping duty on Korean EPDM
Added: 24 Feb 2004
India's finance ministry has imposed dumping duties on imports of EPDM from Korea, following a revi…
Cooper Tire signs union contract
Added: 24 Feb 2004
Cooper Tire has signed a five-year contract with its workforce, represented by the United Steelwork…
Skellmax reports first-half results, starts trials in China
Added: 24 Feb 2004
Skellmax Industries has reported sales and profits both slightly below the year-earlier figure for …
Proposal to burn tyres in electric arc furnace
Added: 24 Feb 2004
A Minnesota-based company is seeking permission to burn tyres in a high-temperature electric arc fu…
India's tyre makers are optimistic following price rises
Added: 24 Feb 2004
India's tyre makers, hard-hit by rising natural rubber prices, are more optimistic, in anticipation…
Goodyear to cut yet more jobs at Wolverhampton, UK
Added: 24 Feb 2004
Goodyear Dunlop Europe is cutting a further 84 jobs at the former Goodyear plant in Wolverhampton, …
Ansell's half-year net profits jump 76 percent
Added: 24 Feb 2004
Glove-maker Ansell has posted a 76 percent increase in net profit to Aus$34.5 million (€21.2 mill…
Yokohama confirms tyre plant in Rayong, Thailand
Added: 24 Feb 2004
Yokohama Tire plans to build a truck and bus tyre plant on the Amata City Industrial Estate in Rayo…
Greenpeace opposes tyres in Australian cement kiln
Added: 24 Feb 2004
Greenpeace has asked the New South Wales Government to reject an application by Blue Circle Cement …
Bangkok futures market to open in April
Added: 24 Feb 2004
The Agricultural Futures Exchange of Thailand is expected to start trading in RSS-3 and rice contra…
Conti pushes for more 'active safety'
Added: 24 Feb 2004
Continental AG is continuing to promote its Stability Control programs, saying that "existing, read…
Higher tyre prices on the way
Added: 24 Feb 2004
Japanese tyre makers warn of global price rises, following increases in raw material costs.
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Petrochem sector to rebound through 2007, based on China demand
Added: 24 Feb 2004
Reports from the ninth Asia Pacific Industry Meeting (APCIM) in Singapore indicate that the petroch…
Tyre distributors in China, Singapore do well.
Added: 24 Feb 2004
According to a Singaporean newspaper, two tyre distribution chains with outlets in fast-growing eco…
