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Sri Lanka rubber group hails US tire duties decision
Added: 18 Jul 2018
Colombo – The Sri Lanka Association of Manufacturers and Exporters of Rubber Products (SLAMERP) has…
Orion to raise carbon black prices
Added: 18 Jul 2018
Luxembourg – Orion Engineered Carbons has announced price increases on all speciality carbon black …
Continental unveils rejig; to spin off Powertrain
Added: 18 Jul 2018
Hanover, Germany – Continental AG is planning to reorganise by 2020 into a holding company with thr…
Producer Responsibility – A concept yet to fully deliver
Added: 18 Jul 2018
London - When the implications of the EU Landfill Directive started to sink in a couple of decades …
Christian Dior puts TPE on new cosmetics packaging
Added: 17 Jul 2018
The Diorshow Pump’N’Volume container features a soft TPE component to enable the brush to be optima…
ETRMA: A half of two quarters for Europe tire markets
Added: 17 Jul 2018
Brussels – European sales of replacement passenger car and truck & bus tires recovered strongly in …
Dunlop Tech, SRI open European R&D centre
Added: 17 Jul 2018
Hanau-Steinheim , Germany – Sumitomo Rubber Europe GmbH and Dunlop Tech GmbH have officially opened…
Freudenberg seals energy flexibility and efficiency
Added: 17 Jul 2018
Freudenberg, Germany – Production and consumption must be equalized within seconds on the grid. Tha…
Chinese tires, rubber products hit hard in new Trump tariffs
Added: 16 Jul 2018
Washington – Nearly all tires imported from China, as well as a long list of rubber products, polym…
Arburg shows its hard/soft side
Added: 16 Jul 2018
Nuremberg, Germany – At DKT 2018, Arburg showed complex multi-component moulding on its electric Al…
SUVs, CUVs may be curtailing growth of OE V-, Z-rated tires
Added: 16 Jul 2018
A closer inspection of the data, however, shows the share held by V- and Z-rated tires has plateaue…
China puts tariffs on nitrile rubber from Korea, Japan
Added: 16 Jul 2018
Beijing - China has imposed anti-dumping tariffs on nitrile rubber originating in South Korea and …
Michelin buying off-road tire maker Camso in €1.2bn deal
Added: 13 Jul 2018
Clermont-Ferrand, France - Groupe Michelin has struck a deal to buy Camso Group, the Magog, Quebec-…
Trelleborg opens European hub for material handling & construction tires
Added: 13 Jul 2018
Evergem, Belgium - Trelleborg AB has inaugurated its new European logistics hub for material handli…
Sinopec opts for Topsoe catalyst for major SBR emissions control project
Added: 13 Jul 2018
Zibo, China – Sinopec Qilu Petrochemical Corp. has opted to use a Topsoe catalyst to control VOC em…
Toyoda Gosei strengthens technical development in India
Added: 13 Jul 2018
Kiyosu, Japan – Automotive parts supplier Toyoda Gosei Co. Ltd has established an engineering and s…
Michelin unveils aggressive underground mining tires
Added: 12 Jul 2018
Michelin unveils aggressive underground mining tires
Greenville, South Carolina — Michelin North Ame…
Report: India hit by NR deficit
Added: 12 Jul 2018
New Delhi – India’s Automotive Tyre Manufacturers Association (ATMA) has voiced concern over a “con…
US levies countervailing duties on rubber bands from China
Added: 12 Jul 2018
Washington - The US Department of Commerce has levied stiff preliminary countervailing duties again…
Continental buys Czech tire machine tool maker
Added: 12 Jul 2018
Hanover, Germany – Continental AG has taken over the its long-term supplier of components for tire-…
