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Bridgestone names new EMEA leader

Added: 4 Feb 2025

Mete Ekin takes over as group president of Bridgestone EMEA, effective 1 Feb

Enviro advances tire pyrolysis JV with staff moving to local site

Added: 4 Feb 2025

Infiniteria, joint venture company with Antin and Michelin, to be based in Uddevalla, Sweden

EU vehicle manufacturers back urgent action after ‘strategic dialogue’

Added: 4 Feb 2025

CEOs of several vehicle manufacturers discuss competitiveness with European Commission president vo…

Dow, Corning discussing joint venture ownership

Dow notes pick-up in downstream silicone volumes

Added: 3 Feb 2025

Significant capacity additions, particularly in China, impacting upstream siloxane operations

ContiTech to put Phoenix brand on Veyance belts

ContiTech plant closures in response to market declines

Added: 3 Feb 2025

German-based supplier notes “persistent decline in demand” in customer sectors such as automotive, …

Europe's auto industry sees unprecedented crisis following production losses

WDK dismayed by policies of German parties ahead of elections

Added: 3 Feb 2025

Rubber manufacturers' association warns of failure to recognise the severity of situation facing in…

Hutchinson targets more efficient, lower-cost fuel cells

Added: 3 Feb 2025

Aims to achieve mass-production of compact bipolar plates with integrated sealing systems

Synthomer's elastomers unit down despite nitrile latex pick-up

Synthomer signals “robust progress” in 2024

Added: 3 Feb 2025

UK-headquartered polymer group issues positive trading update for the 12 months to 31 Dec 2024

Trelleborg restarting operations at Chinese facilities

Trelleborg acquires US aerospace specialist

Added: 3 Feb 2025

Aero-Plastics specialises in “precision injection moulding, thermoforming, and machining of high-pe…

Bridgestone taps McLaren Racing for new motorsports head

Added: 3 Feb 2025

Hiroshi Imai to lead the new ‘motorsports organisation’ operating under chief technology officer

Nokian Tyres sharpens focus on Central Europe, North America with new management team

Added: 3 Feb 2025

Effective March, leadership structure will include regional SVPs for Europe, North America

Essentially Rubber: Arkema TPEs for carbon capture

Added: 3 Feb 2025

Collaborating with Japanese startup OOYOO to advance the development of a gas separation technology

Another important factor is the level of substitution and whether or not the material can be replaced.

European tire market buoyed by all-season demand

Added: 31 Jan 2025

All replacement market segments, except truck & bus tires, see year-on-year increase in volumes

PCBL selects site for new carbon black facility

Added: 31 Jan 2025

Indian supplier to meet 1,000ktpa carbon-black target with addition of sixth manufacturing plant

Rubber & tire industry in numbers

Added: 31 Jan 2025

Review of the key figures and data to emerge over the previous seven days from leading industry pla…

Pirelli recalls over 2k run-flat tires in US

Added: 31 Jan 2025

‘Mislabled’ P7 Cinturato tires produced at Pirelli’s manufacturing site in Romania

RMA: US tire shipments look flat in 2016

US vehicle industry suppliers urge halt to Trump tariffs

Added: 31 Jan 2025

MEMA issues statement on proposed 25% tariffs on goods from Mexico and Canada

ETRMA welcomes European move to simplify regulations

Added: 30 Jan 2025

Calls on EU for ‘rubber strategy’, better enforcement of regulations and reduction of manufacturing…

Italian rubber parts makers Argomm and Gapi announce merger

Added: 30 Jan 2025

Bergamo-based companies have “complementary” technology that will expand range of products, optimis…

Bridgestone to build pilot tire pyrolysis plant at Japan factory

Added: 30 Jan 2025

Set for operation in 2027, pilot project in Seki aims to scale up joint technology with Eneos