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Industry awards set for Tire Cologne trade fair

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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 links with RISE to produce renewable carbon black

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…

Yokohama automotive A/C hoses resist new refrigerant

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”

European demand buoys Synthos synthetic rubber business

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 sales up, operating income down in 2017

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 “contains” Covid effects, further cuts sales outlook 

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’s Sunsine expanding rubber accelerator capacity

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

Technology: Toyo develops AI-based model to estimate tire wear

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 Rubber reports robust demand for personal protection systems

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 expands Dalian tire plant

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…