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Chinese machinery firm signs order with Indian tire-maker
Added: 27 Apr 2016
Guilin, China – Guilin Rubber Machinery has recently signed a curing press order with an Indian cus…
Veyance purchase impacts ContiTech results
Added: 27 Apr 2016
Hanover, Germany – ContiTech AG’s earnings (EBIT) dropped to €171 million in 2015 compared to €433 …
Mesnac posts annual revenue drop
Added: 26 Apr 2016
Qingdao, China – The world’s second largest rubber machinery maker Mesnac reported a 15 percent dro…
Lanxess off to clean start with acquisition from Chemours
Added: 26 Apr 2016
Cologne, Germany – Lanxess has announced the first acquisition since a major realignment that has i…
DuPont's largest compounding plant to launch in China
Added: 26 Apr 2016
Shanghai, China — DuPont Performance Materials will launch its newest plant in Shenzhen, China, at …
Bio-material to reduce sound and vibration on railway tracks
Added: 26 Apr 2016
Wageningen, The Netherlands - Wageningen UR Food & Bio-based Research is working to develop new rai…
Omsk Carbon appoints new boss for German HQ
Added: 26 Apr 2016
Waltrop, Germany – Russian carbon black manufacturer Omsk Carbon has appointed Tomasz Celka as the …
Orgkhim sticks to its growth plans
Added: 25 Apr 2016
Nizhny Novgorod, Russia – Orgkhim’s “is mostly on schedule” with its project to build a new plant i…
Bridgestone Americas promotes 6 to management posts
Added: 25 Apr 2016
Nashville, Tennessee – Bridgestone Americas is making a number of leadership changes within its tec…
Former Nishikawa Rubber executive to serve 18 months for price-fixing
Added: 25 Apr 2016
Washington – A former high-ranking executive with Japanese supplier Nishikawa Rubber Co. has pleade…
Update: Double Coin expands, but question over Shanghai facility
Added: 25 Apr 2016
Urumqi, China – Double Coin’s 51-percent owned subsidiary Double Coin (Xinjiang) Kunlun Tire earlie…
KraussMaffei prepares for growth, new ownership
Added: 25 Apr 2016
China is an important market for KraussMaffei Group – and with state-owned China National Chemical …
French company delivers sample bio-based isobutene to Arlanxeo
Added: 25 Apr 2016
Evry, France – French renewable resource company Global Bioenergies has delivered isobutene produce…
Double Coin expands TBR plant
Added: 25 Apr 2016
Urumqi, China – Double Coin’s 51-percent owned subsidiary Double Coin (Xinjiang) Kunlun Tire earlie…
ContiTech doubles hose production capacity in China
Added: 22 Apr 2016
Changshu, China – ContiTech AG’s mobile fluid systems business has opened a second production hall …
Friday Focus: A new era for runflats?
Added: 22 Apr 2016
London - When they were launched well over a decade ago, runflat tires seemed an attractive offeri…
Mitsubishi admits falsifying fuel-economy data
Added: 21 Apr 2016
Tokyo – Mitsubishi Motors said it will probe whether cars exported from Japan have falsified fuel e…
Former Goodyear chairman and CEO Pilliod dies at 97
Added: 21 Apr 2016
Akron, Ohio – Charles Pilliod Jr., former Goodyear chairman and CEO, died 18 April at the age of 97…
Tanzania to “revive” tire plant
Added: 21 Apr 2016
Dar es Salaam - The government of Tanzania is planning to “revive” General Tyre East Africa as of J…
Sentury Thailand starts production
Added: 21 Apr 2016
Bangkok – Qingdao Sentury Tire’s Thai factory has started production, according to the Chinese tire…
