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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
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
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
Added: 20 Jan 2017
Berwyn, Pennsylvania – Trinseo’s executive vice president and chief operating officer Martin Pugh h…

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
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
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
Added: 19 Jan 2017
Maastricht, The Netherlands – Arlanxeo is increasing prices for chloroprene rubber and chloroprene …

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
Added: 18 Jan 2017
Mumbai, India – Reliance Sibur Elastomers Private Ltd (RSEPL), a joint venture between Sibur and Re…

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
Added: 18 Jan 2017
Brussels - Bridgestone Europe NV/SA has entered into an exclusivity agreement with the shareholders…

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
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
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
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
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
Added: 16 Jan 2017
Telford, UK - Membership organisation Rapra has been taken over by Made in the Midlands, an organis…