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European car sales up 6% in November
Added: 19 Dec 2017
Brussels – European new-car sales rose 5.8% in November, helped by an extra selling day with Peugeo…
Seal-leak hits €3.5bn UK aircraft carrier
Added: 19 Dec 2017
London – HMS Queen Elizabeth, the UK’s new £3.1-billion (€3.5-billion) aircraft carrier is leaking,…
Sumitomo exec: Tire industry will “weather” autonomous storm
Added: 18 Dec 2017
Addressing a Tire Industry Association a recent event in Las Vegas, Smallwood said as with every si…
Bridgestone, JSR developing gloves for para-athletes
Added: 18 Dec 2017
Tokyo – Bridgestone Corp. is working with synthetic rubber manufacturer JSR Corp. to develop gloves…
Toyoda Gosei stalks a new world of products
Added: 18 Dec 2017
Kiyosu, Japan—The parts that Toyota Group supplier Toyoda Gosei Co. is best known for—plastic mould…
Lessons from the past: One for the road
Added: 18 Dec 2017
This picture was published around 100 years ago in ERJ archives, showing an object that could be an…
DRAFT GRC 2018 set for Cambodia
Added: 17 Dec 2017
Sihanoukville, Cambodia – The Association of Rubber Development of Cambodia (ARDC) will host the Gl…
Nishikawa Rubber reaches price-fixing settlement
Added: 17 Dec 2017
Detroit, Michigan – In the latest of a series of settlements, Nishikawa Rubber Co. will pay $11.9 m…
MESNAC Americas boss Jones retires
Added: 17 Dec 2017
Jones has spent over 50 years in the tire industry in a variety of leadership positions in several …
Datwyler to start Indian production unit mid-2018
Added: 15 Dec 2017
Pune, India – Datwyler Sealing Solutions is preparing to start production of pharmaceutical rubber …
ANRPC: Rubber prices “flat” in November
Added: 15 Dec 2017
Kuala Lumpur – Natural rubber prices trended “flat” in November despite rising crude oil prices and…
Oven to take stress out of relaxation tests
Added: 15 Dec 2017
Brämhult, Sweden – Elastocon has introduced a new ageing oven for continuous stress-relaxation test…
Nature to solve human problems with design
Added: 14 Dec 2017
Detroit — Some 25-45% of consumer goods eventually fail in the marketplace and 95% of new products …
Cooper Tire to lay off 80 employees
Added: 14 Dec 2017
Findlay, Ohio – Cooper Tire & Rubber Co. has confirmed it will lay off 80 people in North America.
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Report: Global tire volume to reach 2.7 billion units by 2022
Added: 14 Dec 2017
Leatherhead, UK – Global tire market volume is poised to show 3.4% compound annual growth rate betw…
Billionaire Sołowow in Synthos takeover bid
Added: 14 Dec 2017
Oświęcim, Poland – Polish businessman Michał Sołowow, who owns 62.46% of shares in Synthos SA, is b…
EU car markets grow – apart from UK
Added: 14 Dec 2017
Brussels – Demand for new passenger cars in the EU rose to 1,216,702 units in November, up 5.9% com…
Goodyear’s lean guru Majerus to retire
Added: 14 Dec 2017
Akron, Ohio – Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co.’s lean manufacturing guru Norbert Majerus is to retire at…
DRAFT Trelleborg completes acquisition of US composite manufacturer
Added: 14 Dec 2017
Trelleborg Sealing Solutions unit has acquired Automated Dynamics, an advanced composite components…
Going Underground: NR mat is fire-safety "first"
Added: 14 Dec 2017
The development project, for Entrance Matting Systems Ltd, involved close cooperation by specially …
