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Warehouse fire idles Federal plant temporarily

Warehouse fire idles Federal plant temporarily

Added: 23 Jan 2017

Taoyuan City, Taiwan – A fire on 17 Jan at a warehouse adjacent to Federal Corp's factory in Taoyua…

Smithers upgrades Ohio tire test center

Added: 20 Jan 2017

Ravenna, Ohio – Smithers Rapra has upgraded the treadwear testing capabilities at its Tire and Whee…

Entrepreneur sentenced for Cooper-Apollo insider trading scheme

Entrepreneur sentenced for Cooper-Apollo insider trading scheme

Added: 20 Jan 2017

Boston, Massachusetts – A Brookline, Massachusetts-based entrepreneur and private equity investor h…

Michelin to develop CSR web platform for natural rubber

Michelin to develop CSR web platform for natural rubber

Added: 20 Jan 2017

Montpellier, France – Michelin has chosen agricultural industry software company SMAG to help it ac…

Trinseo’s COO Martin Pugh to retire

Trinseo’s COO Martin Pugh to retire

Added: 20 Jan 2017

Berwyn, Pennsylvania – Trinseo’s executive vice president and chief operating officer Martin Pugh h…

Report: Doublestar selected as Kumho buyer

Report: Doublestar selected as Kumho buyer

Added: 20 Jan 2017

Seoul – Chinese tire maker Qingdao Doublestar has been selected by Kumho creditors as the preferred…

Bridgestone’s South Africa plant impacted by electricity cuts

Bridgestone’s South Africa plant impacted by electricity cuts

Added: 19 Jan 2017

Brits, South Africa – Japanese tire maker Bridgestone has support a legal action against the Madibe…

Semperit, Sri Trang demerge Thai gloves JV

Semperit, Sri Trang demerge Thai gloves JV

Added: 19 Jan 2017

Vienna – Austrian rubber company Semperit and its Thai partner Sri Trang have agreed to demerge the…

Arlanxeo to increase prices for chloroprene rubber products

Arlanxeo to increase prices for chloroprene rubber products

Added: 19 Jan 2017

Maastricht, The Netherlands – Arlanxeo is increasing prices for chloroprene rubber and chloroprene …

Nynas opens new office in Colombia

Nynas opens new office in Colombia

Added: 19 Jan 2017

Bogota – Nynas has opened a sales office for naphthenic speciality oils in Colombia, where it has b…

UK chemical makers to continue advising government on Brexit

Added: 18 Jan 2017

London -  UK prime minister Theresa May's 17 Jan announcement that the country will exit the EU sin…

Reliance–Sibur JV plans to build halobutyl rubber unit

Reliance–Sibur JV plans to build halobutyl rubber unit

Added: 18 Jan 2017

Mumbai, India – Reliance Sibur Elastomers Private Ltd (RSEPL), a joint venture between Sibur and Re…

 From left: Travis Kang, CEO of Nexen Tire, Daisuke Kudo vice president of Nexen Tire Japan Inc.; Ryu Nishimura, CEO of Nexen Tire Japan; and Ichiro Kashitani, automotive division

Nexen, Toyota Tsusho establish sales JV

Added: 18 Jan 2017

Tokyo – Nexen Tire Corp. has established a sales subsidiary in Japan to handle its growing replacem…

Bridgestone acquiring French tire retailer Ayme

Bridgestone acquiring French tire retailer Ayme

Added: 18 Jan 2017

Brussels - Bridgestone Europe NV/SA has entered into an exclusivity agreement with the shareholders…

Trelleborg expands India research centre

Trelleborg expands India research centre

Added: 17 Jan 2017

Ahmedabad, India – Trelleborg’s marine systems business has relocated and almost doubled the size o…

Boge Rubber & Plastics starts up second plant in China

Boge Rubber & Plastics starts up second plant in China

Added: 17 Jan 2017

Damme, Germany – Automotive supplier Boge Rubber & Plastics has started operating a second plant in…

TST wins machinery-supply contract in Thailand

TST wins machinery-supply contract in Thailand

Added: 17 Jan 2017

Tianjin, China – Tianjin-based rubber machinery maker TST signed contract on 12 January to supply t…

Nijman heads up extrusion engineering at HF

Nijman heads up extrusion engineering at HF

Added: 17 Jan 2017

Hamburg, Germany – Equipment & machinery major HF TireTech Group has recently appointed Dr. Gerard …

Future Tire Conference 2017: Call for papers extended

Future Tire Conference 2017: Call for papers extended

Added: 17 Jan 2017

Deadline extended to 2nd February 2017

The Future Tire Conference 2017, organised by European Rubbe…

UK's Rapra organisation finds a new parent group

UK's Rapra organisation finds a new parent group

Added: 16 Jan 2017

Telford, UK - Membership organisation Rapra has been taken over by Made in the Midlands, an organis…