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UK using aerial drones to monitor scrap tire sites
Added: 10 Dec 2015
Manchester, UK – The UK Environment Agency (EA) is using flying drones to monitor sites holding was…
Hankook building its first winter test facility in Europe
Added: 10 Dec 2015
Neu-Isenburg, Germany – Hankook Tire has contracted Finnish tire testing company Test World Oy to b…
Avon masks win UK ‘mankind’ award
Added: 10 Dec 2015
London – Avon Rubber has won a UK award for developing “polymers in service of mankind”, according …
Nippon Goodyear names Kanahara president
Added: 10 Dec 2015
Tokyo – Nippon Goodyear Ltd. has hired veteran tire industry executive Yujiro Kanahara to be presid…
Sibur raises funds for Tobolsk petchem project
Added: 10 Dec 2015
Moscow – Sibur has attracted a number of local and international investors for its ZapSibNeftekhim …
Orion appoints new vice president
Added: 10 Dec 2015
Kingwood, Texas – David Deters has joined Orion Engineered Carbons as senior vice president and chi…
'Bring back spare tires', says US motoring group
Added: 9 Dec 2015
Orlando, Florida – US roadside assistance company AAA has called on car makers to re-introduce spar…
Reports say Dow Chemical and DuPont near merger
Added: 9 Dec 2015
Detroit, Michigan - Dow Chemical Co. and DuPont Co., two global chemical companies with major plas…
Pirelli plant keeps running amid UK floods
Added: 8 Dec 2015
Carlisle, UK – Flash flooding in north west England has not had a significant impact on production…
Goodyear announces offering of €250m European notes
Added: 8 Dec 2015
Akron, Ohio – Goodyear Dunlop Tires Europe (GDTE) is sen to launch a private offering of €250 milli…
Anglo American cuts add to belt makers’ woes
Added: 8 Dec 2015
London – Global mining giant Anglo American has announced a series of swingeing cutbacks, piling fu…
Chemours trims workforce by 400
Added: 8 Dec 2015
Wilmington, Delaware – Newly formed Chemours Co. is cutting its global workforce by around 400 posi…
Sabic, ExxonMobil set to start elastomers plant - report
Added: 8 Dec 2015
London – Saudi Basic Industries Corp. (Sabic) and ExxonMobil Chemical are scheduled to officially i…
BKT building R&D centre for OTR tires
Added: 7 Dec 2015
Bhuj, India – Balkrishna Industries Ltd is building a 32,000-sq.-ft. research and development cente…
Mesnac to raise €183m for smart manufacturing facilities
Added: 7 Dec 2015
Qingdao, China – Mesnac has announced its plan to raise 1.27 billion yuan (€183 million) through pr…
ContiTech switching from silicone hose to plastics at US site
Added: 7 Dec 2015
Somersworth, New Hampshire – ContiTech Mobile Fluid Systems is restructuring its plant in Somerswor…
Chennai floods hamper JK Tyre production, damage site
Added: 7 Dec 2015
Sriperumbadur, India - JK Tyre & Industries Ltd is the second Indian tire-maker to have its product…
Producers to set up rubber market by June 2016
Added: 7 Dec 2015
Jakarta – Major natural rubber producers, Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia, have agreed to open a r…
EU climate initiative to study turning CO2 into rubber
Added: 7 Dec 2015
Paris – A European Union initiative for climate innovation, Climate-KIC, is looking into using carb…
ABB advances X-ray monitoring of rubber seals
Added: 7 Dec 2015
London – ABB is developing x-ray analysis to monitor the condition of O-ring seals as part of a non…
