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Bridgestone launches €36m smart factory project

Bridgestone details ‘modular’ tire production roll-out

Added: 23 Jul 2024

Japanese group set to advance BCMA approach at four tire manufacturing plants in 2024

Doublestar’s Kazakhstan tire plant approved by local government

Doublestar narrows loss on stronger PCR tire performance

Added: 23 Jul 2024

Chinese group says first-half profitability impacted by 'insufficient TBR tire demand'...

Yokohama Rubber buying Goodyear OTR unit for $905m

Added: 22 Jul 2024

Cash transaction expected to close by early 2025 subject to regulatory approvals...

Nokian names Paolo Pompei as group's new leader

Added: 22 Jul 2024

Will replace current president and CEO Jukka Moisio at the start of next year

Trelleborg reports ‘best-to-date’ Q3 despite supply chain woes

Trelleborg posts ‘best-ever’ quarterly earnings, steady sales

Added: 22 Jul 2024

Margin target of 20% “within reach as markets improve and synergies from acquisitions realised...”

Pirelli ‘talking tires’ at annual UK speed festival

Added: 22 Jul 2024

Advanced level of dialogue between car and tires enabled by software created by Italian manufacturer

Yokohama Rubber taps AI knowledge for assisted tire design

Added: 22 Jul 2024

Technology uses 'explainable AI' providing supplementary knowledge to designers to speed up develop…

EU new car registrations up 4%, but BEV market shrinks

Added: 22 Jul 2024

First half figures increase 4.5% year-on-year, but remain 18% lower than pre-pandemic levels

London - The European Tyre & Rubber Manufacturers’ Association (ETRMA) has called for a “fair, level-playing field” in Europe and elsewhere in the wake of investigations launched by the European Commission into dumping by Chinese truck & bus tire (TBR) makers.

German rubber industry leader calls on EC to halt “downward spiral”

Added: 19 Jul 2024

WDK issues urgent plea following the re-election of Ursula von der Leyen as president

Sailun to expand TBR capacity in China

Chinese tire makers in expansion mode after sales-rebound

Added: 19 Jul 2024

Investment pipeline continues to flow following 25% revenue increase seen last year

SRI earnings up despite lower sales

Strike ends at Sumitomo Rubber factory in Turkey

Added: 19 Jul 2024

Union says 43-day industrial action in Cankiri ended with an agreement 'meeting its demands...'

ZC Rubber targets major efficiency improvements with 5G ‘smart factory’

ZC Rubber progresses tire factory construction overseas

Added: 18 Jul 2024

Chinese tire group also set to start production in Indonesia, fully ramp up ‘5G’ factory in China

Hexpol earnings down in ‘stable quarter’

Added: 18 Jul 2024

“Strong margins” reported for the first half of the year despite slightly weaker year-on-year resul…

Trelleborg completes purchase of liquid silicone specialist Baron Group

Added: 18 Jul 2024

Move to strengthen the Swedish group’s position in healthcare & medical segments

JAL, Bridgestone extend tire wear prediction technology to larger aircraft

Added: 18 Jul 2024

Japanese partners started ‘tire replacement operations’ for smaller, regional planes in 2020

Essentially Rubber: Pump and roll

Added: 18 Jul 2024

Trelleborg supplies antivibration mounts for new airport rescue firefighting vehicle

Toyo posts lower earnings on higher sales

Toyo intensifies focus on corporate strategy in new organisational rejig

Added: 18 Jul 2024

New 'full-fledged' division to include functions such as investors relations, branding...

Cooper Standard debuts integrated automotive switch pump

Added: 18 Jul 2024

Developed jointly with automotive supplier Saleri Group, eCoFlow features integrated electric pump …

European industry experts inspect Euro 7 tire test procedures

Added: 17 Jul 2024

Examinations included comparative, open-road testing with a convoy of vehicles fitted with candidat…

Linglong mulls overseas sites, facility upgrade

Linglong Tire expects earnings to surge in first half

Added: 17 Jul 2024

Chinese group “actively upgraded" products, carried out structural adjustments during six-month per…