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Added: 16 May 2024
Forward-looking event programme promotes the needs of the tire and wheel industry

Hankook outlines plans for Hanon Systems
Added: 15 May 2024
Chairman: South Korean group will “become a provider of crucial technology for the electric vehicle…

Orion investing in tire pyrolysis company Alpha Carbone
Added: 15 May 2024
French company's ‘vapo-thermolysis’ process recovers synthetic gas, rCB and pyrolysis oil from scra…

ETRMA joins tire data service organisation GDSO
Added: 15 May 2024
Move “underscores the European tire industry's commitment to driving technological advancement and …

MOL inaugurates €1.3bn polyols complex in Hungary
Added: 15 May 2024
Facility covers “the entire value chain from petroleum processing to polyol production”

Ergon expands distribution deal with Nordmann
Added: 15 May 2024
Consolidates supply agreement across Baltic States, Benelux, DACH, France, Nordic countries, Serbia…

Sumitomo Rubber studying ‘rubber tree tissue culture' technique
Added: 15 May 2024
Joint research in Thailand examines yields from test tube technique compared to conventional grafti…

Goodyear extends tire, material research with Luxembourg university
Added: 15 May 2024
‘Second phase’ of collaboration aims to deliver solutions focused on digitalisation and sustainabil…

Yokohama Rubber to expand motorsports tire production in Japan
Added: 14 May 2024
“High market evaluation of Advan tires has led to a strong increase in orders… and chronic order ba…

Trelleborg to build aerospace sealing plant in Morocco
Added: 14 May 2024
Facility in Casablanca to serve ‘several customers’ in the country, meet global growth

China’s Long March to invest in Pakistan truck tire plant
Added: 14 May 2024
Major expansion project announced during meeting with Pakistani prime minister

Bridgestone improves earnings, sales on strong currency tailwind
Added: 14 May 2024
Higher year-on-year results achieved despite a decline in volumes across most segments

Sumitomo Rubber increases earnings 190%, expects second-half spike in materials costs
Added: 14 May 2024
Japanese group anticipates higher costs to offset gains linked to depreciation of yen in first half

Michelin links tire plant closures to targeted growth plan
Added: 13 May 2024
Group intensifying focus on passenger car tire production, adjusting footprint to target higher-val…

Pirelli earnings rise on stable first quarter revenue
Added: 13 May 2024
Lower cost of materials, price/mix and volumes more than offset inflationary effects

China Sunsine expanding rubber chemicals production
Added: 13 May 2024
Group reports 8% growth in sales volume to rubber industry but revenue dropped 1% on lower selling …

R&D investment in US polymer sector grows 20%
Added: 13 May 2024
Five-year ‘innovation slump’ reversed as companies invest a total of $3.1 billion in R&D
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SMMT calls for ‘next-generation’ incentive to decarbonise UK truck fleet
Added: 13 May 2024
Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders also calls for an infrastructure plan to support adoptio…

Avon awarded €44m general service respirator contract by MoD
Added: 11 May 2024
CBRN respirators for all branches of the UK's armed forces to be supplied from Avon's Melksham faci…

Goodyear "progressing well" with divestment programme
Added: 10 May 2024
Akron group "where it expects to be" in negotiations for sale of chemicals, Dunlop brand and off-ro…