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Sentury's US plant on hold ‘indefinitely'

Sentury planning €520m tire plant in Spain

Added: 13 Jan 2022

Move part of company’s 833plus strategy which envisions a total of eight manufacturing sites

Michelin reaching for the moon with airless tire technology

Added: 13 Jan 2022

Lunar vehicle tires to enable ‘sustainable presence’ on moon by 2025

Dairy dip masks growth at Avon Rubber

Avon Protection appoints new chief financial officer 

Added: 13 Jan 2022

Rich Cashin to succeed Nick Keveth in March

Nokian tracking sustainability goals

Nokian to complete heavy tires expansion by 2023

Added: 12 Jan 2022

Finnish tire maker expanding portfolio by 50% as it targets 10% annual growth in heavy tires segmen…

FBI: Vehicles 'increasingly vulnerable' to remote access

Woodbridge Group acquires Canadian NVH company

Added: 12 Jan 2022

Hematite purchase to expand product portfolio, manufacturing scope

Cadillac taps Goodyear for autonomous concept car

Added: 12 Jan 2022

Two-person ‘luxury concept’ InnerSpace focuses on elevating passenger experience

Norway's Wastefront teams up with US company for tire recovery projects

Technip Energies to build Wastefront’s UK tire recycling plant 

Added: 11 Jan 2022

Construction work on £100m facility to start second quarter of 2022

Supermax to up capacity, diversify to contact lenses

Supermax rolls out new foreign worker management policy 

Added: 11 Jan 2022

Move follows a US imports ban on glove maker's products in October 2021

Phillips Carbon Black to complete expansion project early next year

Phillips Carbon Black changes name, starts new QA facility

Added: 11 Jan 2022

Trading now as PCBL, carbon black maker opens quality assurance lab in Palej, India

Semperit completes acquisition of seal maker

Semperit appoints former Tata Steel executive as new CEO

Added: 10 Jan 2022

Karl Haider succeeds Martin Füllenbach, who resigned from the Austrian group last September

US postpones Indian OTR anti-dumping ruling

New India waste-tire regs could drive up EU recycling costs

Added: 10 Jan 2022

Draft extended producer responsibility document suggests much tighter restrictions on imports 

Shin-Etsu Chemical develops new materials for wearable devices

Added: 10 Jan 2022

Health patches using technology still working after a week of 'continuous wearing'

Expert says NR demand to grow 3.2% in 2015

Natural rubber producers revise up demand estimate

Added: 7 Jan 2022

Suppliers upbeat about market prospects but output affected by bad weather, pandemic

Trelleborg targets ‘bluer skies’ in China 

Trelleborg Wheel Systems increasing prices across all market segments

Added: 7 Jan 2022

Swedish manufacturer introducing price rises of up to 10% from January

Asahi Kasei to manufacture airbag fabric in Vietnam

Added: 7 Jan 2022

Japanese group says intends to expand business “in every segment of the airbag material supply chai…

MIT makes elastomer powered bug-bots fit-to-fly

Added: 7 Jan 2022

Low-voltage artificial muscles allow significant step-up in the performance of flying microrobots

Goodyear to relocate Latin America HQ to Akron

Goodyear unveils demo tire with 70% sustainable materials

Added: 6 Jan 2022

Tire maker says ‘on track’ with goal of 100% sustainable tire by 2030

Kopernik helping rubber farmers to cap lost yields 

Thailand detects new natural rubber leaf fall disease

Added: 6 Jan 2022

Authorities ‘monitoring closely’ as disease expected to spread by rains and strong winds

 Hutchinson's Airbus thermal acoustic insulation

Final call: Rubber Design Innovations 2021

Added: 6 Jan 2022

ERJ readers have helped decide the most innovative designs and applications for elastomer materials…

South Korean group finalises Momentive purchase

Momentive issues ambitious safety targets

Added: 6 Jan 2022

Aims to build on achievement in 2020, when company reported best ever safety performance