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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 narrows loss on stronger PCR tire performance
Added: 23 Jul 2024
Chinese group says first-half profitability impacted by 'insufficient TBR tire demand'...
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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 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...”
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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

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

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

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...'
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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
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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
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Essentially Rubber: Pump and roll
Added: 18 Jul 2024
Trelleborg supplies antivibration mounts for new airport rescue firefighting vehicle

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 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…