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Marangoni hikes tire prices

Marangoni hikes tire prices

Added: 1 Feb 2017

Rovereto, Italy - Marangoni Industrial Tyres will increase sales prices for all products within its…

Trelleborg posts record figures in 2016 full year results

Trelleborg posts record figures in 2016 full year results

Added: 1 Feb 2017

Trelleborg, Sweden – Trelleborg AB hit “record” figures for sales and earnings in the full year 201…

Zeon to raise TPE prices

Added: 31 Jan 2017

Tokyo –  Zeon Corp. has announced plans to raise prices for its thermoplastic elastomers sold under…

Trelleborg board member to step down

Trelleborg board member to step down

Added: 31 Jan 2017

Trelleborg, Sweden - Trelleborg board member Jan Carlson is to step down from his position at the c…

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Yokohama reshuffles, names new ATG chairman

Added: 31 Jan 2017

Tokyo – Yokohama Rubber Co. (YRC) announced a number of changes to the company’s senior management …

Giti to install Cimcorp ‘dream factory’ at new US tire plant

Giti to install Cimcorp ‘dream factory’ at new US tire plant

Added: 31 Jan 2017

Ulvila, Finland – Tire handling and robotics supplier Cimcorp has been selected by Giti Tire to ins…

Q&A: Michelin aims high with new R&D centre

Q&A: Michelin aims high with new R&D centre

Added: 31 Jan 2017

For the Technical Centres feature in the Jan/Feb issue of European Rubber Journal magazine, Shahrza…

Momentive breaks ground on German silane plant

Momentive breaks ground on German silane plant

Added: 30 Jan 2017

Leverkusen, Germany – Momentive Performance Materials Inc. broke ground on its new silane manufactu…

Kuraray raises elastomer prices again

Kuraray raises elastomer prices again

Added: 30 Jan 2017

Tokyo – Exactly a month after announcing price-rises for its elastomer products, Japanese supplier,…

UK sustainable materials group to initially focus on rCB

UK sustainable materials group to initially focus on rCB

Added: 30 Jan 2017

London – Materials consultancy Artis, part of Avon Rubber, has launched a sustainable materials gro…

Report: China tire industry to grow 4%

Report: China tire industry to grow 4%

Added: 30 Jan 2017

Sydney, Australia – Chinese tire industry is expected to grow at a CAGR rate of 4% between 2017-202…

Focus: How industry measures up to HSE standards

Focus: How industry measures up to HSE standards

Added: 27 Jan 2017

Article published in ERJ's January/February issue

While there seems to have been a general improveme…

Dow posts elastomers record amid mixed annual results

Dow posts elastomers record amid mixed annual results

Added: 27 Jan 2017

Midland, Michigan – Dow Chemical Co.’s performance materials & chemicals unit saw sales fall 23% in…

 Stuart Jackson of Bridgestone UK

Bridgestone slams UK’s ‘disastrous’ car-test plans

Added: 27 Jan 2017

London – Bridgestone has renewed its opposition to UK plans to extend the deadline for the annual M…

Falken chosen as OEM for Volkswagen Tiguan

Falken chosen as OEM for Volkswagen Tiguan

Added: 27 Jan 2017

Brussels – Falken has been chosen to supply original equipment tires for new Volkswagen Tiguan mode…

Michelin introduces airless golf cart tire

Michelin introduces airless golf cart tire

Added: 26 Jan 2017

Greenville, South Carolina – Michelin Tweel Technologies is rolling out the X Tweel Turf, an airles…

Materials shortage halting Pirelli Venezuela plant

Materials shortage halting Pirelli Venezuela plant

Added: 26 Jan 2017

Caracas – Pirelli’s Venezuela division is stopping local operations for two weeks due to “lack of r…

Trelleborg switching to a “new normal”

Trelleborg switching to a “new normal”

Added: 26 Jan 2017

Article published in ERJ's January/February issue

After an “exceptional” phase of expansion, CEO Pet…

Momentive acquires Sea Lion Technology

Momentive acquires Sea Lion Technology

Added: 26 Jan 2017

Waterford, New York – Momentive Performance Materials Inc. has acquired the operating assets of Sea…

Continental expects to break ground this year and should bring the plant on stream by 2019. The German tire maker said the factory will produce 4 million tires a year by 2022 and will employ 900 workers in the start-up phase.

Continental selects Thailand for new tire plant

Added: 26 Jan 2017

Rayong, Thailand - Continental AG has selected a site in Thailand's Rayong Province for its next ti…