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Siemens to build power plant for Nizhnekamsk

Siemens to build power plant for Nizhnekamsk

Added: 21 Dec 2017

Tatarstan, Russia - PJSC Nizhnekamskneftekhim has signed an agreement with Germany’s Siemens AG for…

PPG raises precipitated silica prices

PPG raises precipitated silica prices

Added: 21 Dec 2017

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania - PPG Industries Inc. is raising prices for sodium silicate and all precip…

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Innovative wheel design could revolutionise tire industry

Added: 21 Dec 2017

Troy, Mich. — Did you know that the wheel was invented more than 5,000 years ago?

It is uncertain ex…

Mitsui to expand rubber chemicals production

Mitsui to expand rubber chemicals production

Added: 20 Dec 2017

Tokyo – Mitsui Chemicals Inc is to expand production within its elastomers portfolio, the Japanese …

Triangle to build tire plants in North Carolina

Triangle to build tire plants in North Carolina

Added: 20 Dec 2017

Tarboro, North Carolina – China's Triangle Group Co. Ltd. will become the latest foreign tire maker…

ERJ People in Pictures

Added: 19 Dec 2017

Focus on announcements regarding key personnel as well as skills & training initiatives in the inte…

Bridgestone sets up mining supply unit in Indonesia

Bridgestone sets up mining supply unit in Indonesia

Added: 19 Dec 2017

Tokyo – Bridgestone Corp has integrated its mining offerings in Indonesia: setting up PT Bridgeston…

Pirelli extends rubber supply agreement with Nizhnekamsk

Pirelli extends rubber supply agreement with Nizhnekamsk

Added: 19 Dec 2017

Milan – Pirelli & C. SpA has signed a contract with Russia’s leading rubber maker PJSC Nizhnekamskn…

India rejects plea for butadiene rubber duties

India rejects plea for butadiene rubber duties

Added: 19 Dec 2017

New Delhi – The Indian government has decided that anti-dumping duties should not be levied on buta…

European car sales up 6% in November

European car sales up 6% in November

Added: 19 Dec 2017

Cars vehicles 600Brussels – 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

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,…

Las Vegas, Nevada — While autonomous vehicles (AVs) are likely to be highly disruptive throughout the automotive sector, the tire industry will come through relatively unscathed, believes Richard Smallwood, president and CEO of Sumitomo Rubber North America Inc.

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

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 showed a padded concept vehicle at the Tokyo Motor Show. Its rubber skin softens collisions.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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…