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Added: 9 Dec 2014
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Conti boss : Industry facing rubber price “tsunami”
Added: 8 Dec 2014
London – The head of Continental AG’s global R&D, David O’Donnell, has warned that the tire industr…
Continental trials first car tires with dandelion-rubber tread
Added: 8 Dec 2014
London – International automotive supplier and tire manufacturer Continental AG has announced that …
New Conti tire drops 30% rolling resistance
Added: 8 Dec 2014
London – Continental AG has developed a special tire for hybrid vehicles that features a 30-percent…
Indorama takes over Performance Fibers’ Asia arm
Added: 8 Dec 2014
Bangkok – Indorama Ventures PCL (IVL) announced on 8 Dec that it is to acquire automotive fibre bus…
Cooper plans to grow business in China - CEO
Added: 8 Dec 2014
Findlay, Ohio — Cooper Tire and Rubber Co has announced that it would continue to seek to expand it…
Global Bioenergies claims bio-butadiene breakthrough
Added: 5 Dec 2014
Evry, France – Global Bioenergies has claimed an industry first with the production of bio-based bu…
Michelin hiking budget-tire output to counter Chinese
Added: 5 Dec 2014
Chengdu, China—Michelin plans to almost double the proportion of budget tires in its global sales m…
ERJ Archives - Anyone for tennis?
Added: 5 Dec 2014
ERJ Archives: From the 9 June, 1890 edition of the magazine:
The all new patented Lawn Tennis Ball R…
Your new Harmonic Heroes
Added: 5 Dec 2014
In 2014 supply, repair and field service specialist, CP Automation has seen a record level of appli…
New formulation centre for UK industry
Added: 4 Dec 2014
London – The UK manufacturing sector is to have a new £28-million (€37m) National Formulation Centr…
Hainan buys 208k tonnes of Thai rubber
Added: 4 Dec 2014
Shanghai, China - Hainan Rubber Industry Group has agreed to buy 208,000 tonnes of rubber from Thai…
Trailer tires, other speciality tires exempt from US duties
Added: 4 Dec 2014
Washington — The US commerce department’s decision to impose countervailing duties on passenger and…
Bridgestone installs new COO in Europe, president in Brazil
Added: 4 Dec 2014
Tokyo - Bridgestone Corp. has appointed Yves Kerstens as the chief operating officer (COO) of its E…
Chrysler recalls 23k vehicles over faulty TPMS
Added: 4 Dec 2014
London – Chrysler Group LLC is recalling certain model year 2014 of Ram ProMaster vehicles manufact…
Dynasol JV in China to begin production in 2015
Added: 4 Dec 2014
Panjin, China — Dynasol Elastomers SA is preparing to begin production at its Chinese joint venture…
Cooper Tire names new CFO
Added: 3 Dec 2014
Findlay, Ohio – Cooper Tire & Rubber Co. announced on 2 Dec that its board of directors had elected…
US countervailing tire duties effective 1 Dec
Added: 3 Dec 2014
Washington — The US commerce department issued a notice on 1 Dec announcing that importers of passe…
Kiswire continues expansion of plant in South Carolina
Added: 3 Dec 2014
Columbia, SC – Kiswire Inc., a manufacturer of steel cord and bead wire, is commencing the second p…
Ergon in South African market, Orbichem to distribute products
Added: 3 Dec 2014
Waterloo, Belgium — Ergon Europe MEA, Inc., announced on 2 Dec that it has appointed Orbichem Petro…
