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Skellerup starts building new production plant
Added: 27 Nov 2014
Christchurch, New Zealand – Dairy rubber-parts producer Skellerup has announced the start of constr…
Hexagonal wheel wins Hankook student design award
Added: 27 Nov 2014
Neu-Isenburg, Germany – Enabling tires to adapt to meet changing and challenging driving condition…
Major shift in Chinese tire-compound rules
Added: 27 Nov 2014
Beijing - China is reportedly preparing to enforce new regulations on compounded rubber that could …
Engel advances LSR moulding technology
Added: 26 Nov 2014
Schwerberg, Austria - Injection moulding machine maker Engel will show off its latest technology fo…
Toyo recalling 175,000 light truck/SUV tires
Added: 26 Nov 2014
Cypress, California — Toyo Tire Holdings of Americas Inc. is voluntarily recalling approximately 17…
European tire body says optimistic over future talks with US
Added: 26 Nov 2014
Brussels – The head of the European Tyre and Rubber Manufacturers’ Association (ETRMA) has expresse…
Mazda, JLR, Mini Cooper in recalls over tire issues
Added: 26 Nov 2014
London – A report by the Japanese car maker Mazda suggests that the company is recalling 100,000 of…
Pirelli to expand truck tire plant in Egypt
Added: 26 Nov 2014
Milan, Italy –Pirelli Tyre SpA and the Egyptian minister of investment signed a memorandum of under…
Toyo Tires files lawsuit over trademark infringement
Added: 26 Nov 2014
Cypress, California – Toyo Tire and Rubber Co. Ltd, and its American subsidiaries have filed a trad…
US rubber trade deficit grows
Added: 26 Nov 2014
Washington — The US rubber product trade deficit continued to climb in the first quarter of 2014, w…
Sika opens new R&D unit in UK
Added: 26 Nov 2014
London – Swiss speciality chemical company Sika announced on 27 Nov that it opened a “state-of-the-…
US sets preliminary duties on Chinese tires
Added: 25 Nov 2014
Washington — The US department of commerce has set the preliminary countervailing duty subsidy for …
US union welcomes tariffs on Chinese tires
Added: 25 Nov 2014
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania - The United Steelworkers union, whose petition led to the US investigatio…
Energy costs hit EU chemical exports
Added: 25 Nov 2014
Brussels – High energy costs and lower R&D intensity spending over the past two decades has diminis…
New leader for French scrap tire company Aliapur
Added: 25 Nov 2014
Lyon, France – Hervé Domas is to take over as chief executive officer of French Aliapur in January …
Pirelli introduces intelligent 'cyber tire' project
Added: 25 Nov 2014
Milan, Italy – Pirelli is currently studying a new “futuristic” intelligent tire with sensors embed…
Vicat starts up “Europe’s longest” conveyor belt
Added: 24 Nov 2014
Hannover, Germany - The longest conveyor belt in Europe recently went into operation at the Vicat c…
Shandong plans to transform region's tire industry
Added: 24 Nov 2014
Shandong, China - The general office of Shandong provincial government has issued the 'Implementati…
Pirelli says happy with tire performance in F1
Added: 24 Nov 2014
Abu Dhabi, UAE – Pirelli’smotorsport director Paul Hembery has said that Pirelli tires “performed a…
Continental launches two tire lines in India
Added: 24 Nov 2014
Hanover, Germany - Continental AG has launched its newly developed “ContiMaxContact MC5” & “ContiCo…
