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Future Tire: Q&A with executive director MisterTyre
Added: 26 Apr 2018
ERJ: Please identify one significant development in the tire industry in the last 2-3 years, and ex…
Trelleborg gain despite “challenging” conditions, harsh winter
Added: 26 Apr 2018
Trelleborg, Sweden – Trelleborg AB has reported growth in the first quarter of 2018 with both net s…
Covestro launches online store on Alibaba
Added: 25 Apr 2018
Leverkusen, Germany – As part of its digitalisation strategy, leading German speciality chemicals s…
Higher prices drive Hexpol growth
Added: 25 Apr 2018
Malmo – Swedish rubber group Hexpol AB has posted growth in sales and operating profit in the first…
Michelin sales decline amid market and currency headwinds
Added: 25 Apr 2018
Clermont-Ferrand, France - Michelin Group has experienced a 6.3% year-on-year decline in its first-…
Orion to increase prices for rubber blacks in North America
Added: 25 Apr 2018
Kingwood, Texas – Orion Engineered Carbons is increasing prices for its rubber carbon black materia…
Goodyear adopting sustainable natural rubber procurement policy
Added: 25 Apr 2018
Akron, Ohio — Goodyear is adopting a natural rubber (NR) procurement policy that it said will help …
Marangoni link-up targets graphene-based retreads
Added: 24 Apr 2018
Rovereto, Italy – Marangoni has announced a “strategic collaboration” agreement with Directa Plus p…
Regulations scupper Enviro-Vanlead rCB project in China
Added: 24 Apr 2018
Gothenburg, Sweden – Scandinavian Enviro Systems AB (Enviro) has announced that changes to local re…
Chinese machinery maker supplies to Pakistani tire plant
Added: 24 Apr 2018
Guilin, China – Guilin Rubber Machinery has delivered 65-inch hydraulic vulcanisers and 75-inch mec…
Halcyon Agri acquires four Indonesian NR factories
Added: 24 Apr 2018
Singapore – Natural rubber supply group Halcyon Agri Corp. Ltd has completed the purchase of four I…
ETRMA calls for urgent legislation for in-vehicle data access
Added: 24 Apr 2018
Brussels – The European Tyre and Rubber Manufacturers’ Association (ETRMA) has joined a coalition c…
Future Tire: Q&A with Mesnac vice president Karol Vanko
Added: 23 Apr 2018
ERJ: Please identify one significant development in the tire industry in the last 2-3 years, and ex…
Michelin develops high-performance textile-rubber adhesive
Added: 23 Apr 2018
Clermont-Ferrand, France — Group Michelin will be leaving a decades-old industry standard behind la…
Freudenberg to consider IPO for Vibracoustic
Added: 23 Apr 2018
Darmstadt, Germany — Vibracoustic GmbH's parent company could take the company public in 2019.
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New Pirelli organisation to support business plans
Added: 23 Apr 2018
Milan, Italy - Pirelli & C. SpA is to establish a new organisational set-up to support its integrat…
Five top tire makers for Future Tire in Cologne
Added: 23 Apr 2018
Cologne, Germany – Five of the world’s leading tire manufacturers will be represented among the spe…
Rubber machinery sector bounces back
Added: 20 Apr 2018
Original article published in the March/April edition of European Rubber Journal magazine
After two…
Update: South Africa’s Karbochem stops synthetic rubber production
Added: 20 Apr 2018
Johannesburg, South Africa – Karbochem Ltd, South Africa’s only manufacturer of synthetic rubber, i…
Camso, Ferm in RFID development deal
Added: 20 Apr 2018
The two companies have been developing an RFID technology, called ‘the plug’, for two years, accord…
