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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

Avon Protection appoints new chief financial officer
Added: 13 Jan 2022
Rich Cashin to succeed Nick Keveth in March

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…

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

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 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 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 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

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'

Natural rubber producers revise up demand estimate
Added: 7 Jan 2022
Suppliers upbeat about market prospects but output affected by bad weather, pandemic

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 unveils demo tire with 70% sustainable materials
Added: 6 Jan 2022
Tire maker says ‘on track’ with goal of 100% sustainable tire by 2030

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

Final call: Rubber Design Innovations 2021
Added: 6 Jan 2022
ERJ readers have helped decide the most innovative designs and applications for elastomer materials…

Momentive issues ambitious safety targets
Added: 6 Jan 2022
Aims to build on achievement in 2020, when company reported best ever safety performance