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Central European market slows growth at Nokian
Added: 11 Feb 2019
Fourth quarter net sales fell 3.4% year-on-year to €473.6 million, while operating profit dipped 4.…

Spanish automotive supplier receives €26m EU funding
Added: 11 Feb 2019
Biscay, Spain – Spanish rubber and plastic automotive parts supplier Cikautxo Group has received a …

USTMA publishes tire industry sustainability report
Added: 8 Feb 2019
Washington — The US Tire Manufacturers Association (USTMA) has published its first sustainability r…

BARA raises standard in battle for more UK robots
Added: 8 Feb 2019
Sales of robots to the sector, which includes many rubber parts makers, fell 15% year-on-year in 20…

UK rubber sector upbeat despite production decline
Added: 8 Feb 2019
Colchester, UK – The UK rubber manufacturing sector has seen a sharp decline in output, recently is…

Cabot sees challenges ahead for carbon blacks
Added: 8 Feb 2019
Boston, Masachusetts – Cabot Corp. has reported first quarter results “in line with prior year” at …

Chemicals industry plea ahead of Brexit meeting
Added: 7 Feb 2019
London – The UK’s Chemicals Industries Association and EU-wide equivalent Cefic have issued a joint…

Mitsui: “Healthy” elastomer demand, ahead of US project
Added: 7 Feb 2019
Tokyo – Mitsui Chemicals Inc. has reported strong automotive sector demand for its elastomer materi…

US team develops self-healing 3D printed rubber
Added: 7 Feb 2019
Los Angeles, California – Researchers at the University of Southern California (USC) Viterbi School…

WindSpace, Enviro announce Danish tire-pyrolysis project
Added: 7 Feb 2019
Kongens Lyngby, Denmark / Gothenburg, Sweden – Elysium Nordic is to set up “one of the world’s larg…

Bridgestone to build racing tire factory in Akron
Added: 7 Feb 2019
Akron, Ohio – Bridgestone Americas Inc. plans to build a dedicated racing tire plant in Akron near …

TTE: FineLine linking RFID to smart-tire manufacture
Added: 7 Feb 2019
The talk, Mold, bladder, tooling and press management in smart manufacturing and Industry 4.0, will…

TTE Preview: HF’s mixing room of the future
Added: 7 Feb 2019
Freudenberg, Germany – Today’s tire market requires entire system-solutions integrating machines, …

Wabco inks €202m auto air-suspensions deal
Added: 6 Feb 2019
Brussels – Wabco Holdings Inc. has announced a $230-million (€202-million) deal to develop air-susp…

Materials prices dent earnings-growth at Apollo
Added: 6 Feb 2019
Gurgaon, India – Raw-materials costs put the brakes on earnings-growth at Apollo Tyres Ltd in the t…

Rubber decline hits Ube group-profits
Added: 6 Feb 2019
Tokyo – Ube Industries Ltd’s synthetic rubber business contributed to a steep decline in group prof…

Taiwan's LCY Chemical goes private
Added: 6 Feb 2019
Taipei – Private equity firm KKR & Co. Inc. has taken LCY Chemical Corp. private in a stock exchang…

Magna Tyres opening sales office in Canada
Added: 5 Feb 2019
Waalwijk, Netherlands – Off-road tire maker Magna Tyres Group is opening a sales office in Vaughan,…

US now finds against China truck & bus tires
Added: 5 Feb 2019
Washington – The US International Trade Commission (ITC) has reversed its original opinion on truc…

Tosoh chloroprene rubber in demand
Added: 5 Feb 2019
Tokyo, Japan— Tosoh Corp. has reported mixed fortunes for its chloroprene rubber business over the …