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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…
Michelin's Hays suggests US$0.80 - $1.40 NR price range
Added: 24 Feb 2004
Patrick Hays, managing director of Michelin Singapore, has said he hopes NR prices can be maintain…
Michelin recalls 10 000 truck tyres in Australia
Added: 24 Feb 2004
Michelin has issued a voluntary recall notice on its XZE2+ 22-inch truck tyres in Australia. The ty…
Firestone's SR workers in Orange, Tx, threaten strike
Added: 24 Feb 2004
Union members at Firestone's SBR plant in Orange, Texas have voted unanimously in favour of strike …
Greenfield tyre plant in Georgia, US: Is it Toyo?
Added: 24 Feb 2004
Two separate sources seem to suggest that Japan's Toyo Tire is planning a small- to mid-sized tyre …
Indian government clears Michelin-Apollo project
Added: 24 Feb 2004
India's Finance Ministry has approved the FDI (foreign direct investment) proposal by Michelin to b…
Golden Hope sells former rubber plantation land
Added: 24 Feb 2004
Golden Hope Plantations Bhd. has agreed to sell 96 ha of land in Perak, Malaysia. The land, located…
NZ earthquake bearings protect Indian hospital
Added: 24 Feb 2004
A new 300-bed hospital in Bhuj, Gujarat has been built with earthquake bearings designed and produc…
Australia leads world in move to put allergy warning on gloves
Added: 24 Feb 2004
Following Ansell's decision in 1998 to put allergy warnings on gloves made from natural rubber late…
