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Amerityre posts first-ever quarterly profit

Amerityre posts first-ever quarterly profit

Added: 3 Sep 2015

Boulder City, Nevada –  Polyurethane tire producer Amerityre Corp. has reported the first profitabl…

Dunlop Aircraft Tyres talks business with UK minister

Dunlop Aircraft Tyres talks business with UK minister

Added: 3 Sep 2015

Birmingham, UK – UK business minister Anna Soubry visited Birmingham to hear how Dunlop Aircraft Ty…

Pirelli blames debris for Spa tire blow-outs

Pirelli blames debris for Spa tire blow-outs

Added: 3 Sep 2015

Milan, Italy – Pirelli has concluded that there were no structural problems in its tires used at th…

BMS officially changes name to Covestro

Added: 2 Sep 2015

Leverkusen, Germany – Covestro, the new name for Bayer’s former MaterialScience business, was offic…

Elastomer focus at new UK polymer centre

Elastomer focus at new UK polymer centre

Added: 2 Sep 2015

Coventry, UK – The Warwick Manufacturing Group (WMG) at the University of Warwick has established a…

UK rubber manufacturers tied up in 'green' tape

UK rubber manufacturers tied up in 'green' tape

Added: 2 Sep 2015

London – Companies in the rubber manufacturing sector are among those most affected by the burden o…

IRCo appoints new CEO

IRCo appoints new CEO

Added: 2 Sep 2015

Bangkok – Salmiah Ahmad has been appointed as the new chief executive officer of International Rubb…

Omsk Carbon sets up European HQ

Added: 2 Sep 2015

Waltrop, Germany – Omsk Carbon has signaled its European expansion plans by upgrading the status of…

BMS officially changes name to Covestro

BMS officially changes name to Covestro

Added: 2 Sep 2015

Leverkusen, Germany – Covestro AG, the former Bayer MaterialScience business, has officially adopte…

Desma advances remote-monitoring security

Desma advances remote-monitoring security

Added: 2 Sep 2015

Fridingen, Germany – Injection moulding machinery maker Desma has developed networking technology t…

Hankook to unveil advanced winter tires in Frankfurt

Hankook to unveil advanced winter tires in Frankfurt

Added: 2 Sep 2015

Neu-Isenburg, Germany –  Hankook will present a series of tire innovations including an “entirely n…

Dow ‘to stay and grow’ in rubber business

Dow ‘to stay and grow’ in rubber business

Added: 2 Sep 2015

Nuremberg, Germany – Market development in the rubber industry has been ”very positive”  this year …

Conti invests in A-Z tire mould operation

Conti invests in A-Z tire mould operation

Added: 2 Sep 2015

Hanover, Germany – Continental AG has invested in new foundry facilities at A-Z Formen- und Maschin…

Rubber revenue hikes at Nizhnekamskneftekhim H1

Rubber revenue hikes at Nizhnekamskneftekhim H1

Added: 1 Sep 2015

Moscow – Russian synthetic rubber and plastics manufacturer, Nizhnekamskneftekhim, has posted a str…

TRP Sealing Systems starts up plant in China 

TRP Sealing Systems starts up plant in China 

Added: 1 Sep 2015

Hereford , UK – TRP Sealing Systems Ltd has opened a new manufacturing facility in China, the Heref…

Evonik starts up advanced C4 plants in Germany

Evonik starts up advanced C4 plants in Germany

Added: 1 Sep 2015

Essen/Marl, Germany – Evonik Industries has started up new production facilities for C4-based produ…

Orion appoints new carbon black leader

Orion appoints new carbon black leader

Added: 1 Sep 2015

Luxembourg – Orion Engineered Carbons SA has appointed Erik Thiry as senior vice president, rubber …

China faces an added threat down the road: Capacity glut

China faces an added threat down the road: Capacity glut

Added: 1 Sep 2015

Detroit, Michigan - The news coming out of China right now is bad, and chances are, it's going to g…

New reference book "Automotive Vibration Control Technology"

New reference book "Automotive Vibration Control Technology"

Added: 1 Sep 2015

Darmstadt, Germany – With its new reference book "Automotive Vibration Control Technology", Trelleb…

Along with the possibility of building a new tire plant, Liu said Double Coin and Huayi are open to possible joint ventures in the US with other tire companies. This might be in the form of acquiring capacity in another company’s tire plant that has excess production, an off-take arrangement with a manufacturer in the US, joint cooperation on the business side and/or technical cooperation.

Double Coin mulls factory outside China

Added: 31 Aug 2015

Shanghai – Double Coin Holdings Ltd, one of China’s largest tire manufacturers, is studying the fea…