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Yokohama to add Alliance passenger tire brand
Added: 18 Apr 2017
Tokyo -- Yokohama Rubber Co. Ltd has confirmed that it plans to launch a range of "competitively p…
NR price outlook ‘improves’ after sharp falls
Added: 18 Apr 2017
Kuala Lumpur – Although natural rubber prices have fallen sharply since mid-February, market sentim…
Momentive opens tire materials R&D lab
Added: 18 Apr 2017
Charlotte, North Caroline - Momentive Performance Materials Inc. has opened a 20,000-sq-ft. researc…
Bridgestone develops airless bicycle tires
Added: 18 Apr 2017
Tokyo – Bridgestone Corp., together with Bridgestone Cycle Co., Ltd., has developed an airless bicy…
Semperit CTO steps down from the management board
Added: 18 Apr 2017
Vienna – Semperit’s long-standing chief technical officer Richard Ehrenfeldner has terminated his a…
Hutchinson to build new North American HQ
Added: 13 Apr 2017
Auburn Hills, Michigan - A new $8 million North American headquarters building for Hutchinson North…
Conti opens 300-employee R&D centre in California
Added: 13 Apr 2017
Hanover, Germany / San José, California – Continental has opened a new R&D centre in San José, whe…
Wacker inks silicone brand deal in Brazil
Added: 13 Apr 2017
Munich, Germany / São Paulo, Brazil – Munich-based chemical group Wacker and the Brazilian silicon…
Aeolus to fully absorb Pirelli industrial tire unit, raise project funds
Added: 13 Apr 2017
Jiaozuo, China – Aeolus is to acquire a 90% stake in Pirelli’s industrial tire unit Prometeon Tyre …
Trinseo CEO to receive leadership award
Added: 13 Apr 2017
Berwyn, Pennsylvania.—Throughout the past three years, Trinseo SA CEO and president Christopher Pap…
ASTM move could aid pyrolysis backers
Added: 12 Apr 2017
Brussels – The formation recently by the standards body ASTM International of a committee on recycl…
Raw materials costs hit Semperit business outlook
Added: 12 Apr 2017
Vienna – Semperit Group is now expecting a “very weak” result and has suspended its business foreca…
Delay to Dow-DuPont merger
Added: 12 Apr 2017
Midland, Michigan – Several amendments have been made to the proposed merger agreement between Dow …
New Prometeon to partner by Iveco Defence Vehicles
Added: 12 Apr 2017
Milan – Prometeon Tire Group – the new company name of the group that produces Pirelli brand truck,…
Kramer: Goodyear poised for “high-value” growth
Added: 12 Apr 2017
Akron, Ohio – Goodyear is positioned to take advantage of the "accelerating shift to high-value-add…
Feature – JK Tyre maps out road to automation
Added: 10 Apr 2017
Hanover, Germany – Automation and the level of automation introduced in your system is a central t…
Kanwar: Hungary plant a " milestone" in Apollo's global expansion plans
Added: 10 Apr 2017
Gyongyoshalasz, Hungary – More than 1,400 Apollo employees, vendors, dealers and dignitaries – incl…
EC clears Dow-DuPont merger subject to conditions
Added: 10 Apr 2017
Brussels – DuPont Co.is divesting its Crop Protection Business and acquiring FMC's health and nutri…
New Chinese steel cord and carbon black project
Added: 10 Apr 2017
Shizuishan, China – Chemical conglomerate Ningxia Dadi Circular Deveploment Corp. broke ground in F…
Report: Styrenic elastomers to lose out in growing TPEs market
Added: 10 Apr 2017
Leatherhead, UK – The global market for thermoplastic elastomers (TPEs) will grow at an annual rat…
