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BLIC wants more time for PAH phase out
Added: 24 Feb 2004
By Patrick Raleigh, ERJ On-line news editor
Brussels-European Commission proposals to end the use of…

Kraton hiking SIS adhesive prices
Added: 24 Feb 2004
By Patrick Raleigh, ERJ On-line news editor
Houston, Texas-Kraton Polymers is raising its styrene-is…

Malaysia to dig up more rubber plantations
Added: 24 Feb 2004
A report in Malaysia's Star newspaper says that the Malaysian government plans to reduce the area u…

Tyre machinery adds to L&T's strategic direction
Added: 24 Feb 2004
India's Larsen & Toubro is concentrating on heavy engineering, following the divestment of non-core…

Vietnam exports more rubber at higher prices
Added: 24 Feb 2004
Vietnam's rubber industry is growing fast, according to a report on the national broadcasting stati…

Cordenka raising rayon tyre yarn capacity
Added: 24 Feb 2004
By Patrick Raleigh, ERJ On-line news editor
Obernburg, Germany-Cordenka is increasing the annual cap…

Kossan finds buyers for extra glove capacity
Added: 24 Feb 2004
Kossan Rubber Industries Bhd of Malaysia has increased its glove capacity by 1300 million units/yea…

Six killed in India, as polybutadiene rocket fuel explodes
Added: 24 Feb 2004
An explosion at the Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Sriharikota, India has reportedly killed six and se…

India's rubber imports up by 215 percent by value
Added: 24 Feb 2004
The value of imports of all types of rubber to India increased by 215 percent in the eight months t…

Continental planning tyre JV in China -- report
Added: 24 Feb 2004
Continental AG may be planning to make tyres in China. A report in the Hannovershe Allgemeine Zeitu…

Q3 Profits fall at India's Ceat Tyre company
Added: 24 Feb 2004
Profits at Indian tyre maker Ceat fell by nearly half, despite a 27 percent increase in sales in th…

Unipetrol stocks fall 4 percent
Added: 24 Feb 2004
Shares in the Czech Unipetrol company declined 4 percent on Tuesday. The Interfax agency reported t…

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…