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Michelin confirms guidance for FY2018
Added: 14 Sep 2018
Paris – Groupe Michelin has confirmed its guidance for the financial year 2018, after having review…
Hexpol acquires US custom rubber compounder
Added: 14 Sep 2018
Long Beach, California – Hexpol AB is paying $49 million (€42 million) to acquire Kirkhill Inc, a c…
United Steelworkers in Virginia approve contract with Yokohama
Added: 13 Sep 2018
Salem, Virginia – Members of the United Steelworkers Local 1023 in Salem have ratified a four-year …
Dow invests to expand silicones production
Added: 13 Sep 2018
Midland, Michigan — Dow Chemical Co. will invest in both its upstream and downstream silicones busi…
VMI Extrusion relocates to new facility
Added: 13 Sep 2018
Cham, Germany – VMI Extrusion has relocated to a new facility in the city of Cham, Bavaria, in east…
MOL, Thyssenkrupp sign €1.2bn deal to build polyether polyol complex
Added: 13 Sep 2018
Budapest – Hungarian energy company MOL Group has awarded a €1.2-billion engineering, procurement a…
China’s Guilin Rubber to supply machinery to Turkish tire maker
Added: 13 Sep 2018
Guilin, China – ChemChina-owned Guilin Rubber Machinery has announced an order contract with an unn…
Bridgestone, Cooper raising aftermarket tire prices in US
Added: 13 Sep 2018
Akron, Ohio – Bridgestone Americas Tire Operations (BATO) and Cooper Tire & Rubber Co. plan to incr…
New sheet-rubber factory opens in China
Added: 12 Sep 2018
Xuancheng, China – Nanjing Bonzer Rubber & Plastic Co. Ltd has opened a new factory for the manufac…
Conti marks Slovakia truck tire plant milestone
Added: 12 Sep 2018
Puchov, Slovakia – Continental AG has celebrated the 20th anniversary of truck tire production at i…
New Trelleborg facility in Mexico to serve automotive industry
Added: 12 Sep 2018
Querétaro, Mexico – Trelleborg’s sealing profiles operation has inaugurated a new manufacturing fac…
Smithers Rapra upgrades US testing facility for larger wheels
Added: 12 Sep 2018
Ravenna, Ohio — Polymer products testing company Smithers Rapra has upgraded the wheel-testing capa…
Pirelli, Hankook bid for F1 contract; Michelin opts out
Added: 11 Sep 2018
Paris — Pirelli Tyre and Hankook Tire Co. Ltd. have submitted bids to the Federation International …
Bridgestone eyes retail growth with UK acquisition
Added: 11 Sep 2018
Brussels – Bridgestone Corp. has acquired UK automotive service provider Exhaust Tyres and Batterie…
People: Semperit COO steps down
Added: 11 Sep 2018
Vienna – Semperit AG’s chief operating officer Michele Melchiorre has announced that he is terminat…
Pirelli 'disposes' its Venezuelan tire plant to South American investors
Added: 11 Sep 2018
Milan – Pirelli & C. SpA has "disposed" its passenger tire plant in Guacara, Venezuela, to a consor…
Michelin warns of job cuts at UK plant amid cheap tires’ influx
Added: 11 Sep 2018
Dundee, Scotland – French tire maker Michelin has warned of potential job cuts at its tire producti…
China’s Zhongding starts up automotive parts plant in Brazil
Added: 10 Sep 2018
St. Paul, Brazil – China’s Anhui Zhongding Rubber-plastic Products Co. Ltd, one of the world’s larg…
Endurica and TARRC launch durability testing partnership
Added: 10 Sep 2018
Hertford, UK – The Tun Abdul Razak Research Center and Endurica LLC have established a partnership …
People: Kumho Tire Europe appoints new president
Added: 10 Sep 2018
Lutterworth, UK – Kumho Tire Europe GmbH has appointed Kyungtai Ju as its new president, replacing …
