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Major reshuffle at Toyo Tire
Added: 10 Dec 2014
Osaka, Japan – Toyo Tire and Rubber Co. Ltd. has announced that a major reshuffle across the group,…
DuPont selling Neoprene business to Denka of Japan
Added: 10 Dec 2014
Wilmington, Delaware – DuPont Performance Polymers is to sell its Neoprene polychloroprene to Denka…
Mercedes taps Bridgestone for new SUV
Added: 10 Dec 2014
Brussels – Mercedes-Benz has selected the new Bridgestone Dueler H/P for its latest compact SUV mod…
Bridgestone turns to biomass energy at Costa Rica plant
Added: 9 Dec 2014
La Ribera de Belén, Costa Rica – Bridgestone de Costa Rica has officially started up a biomass boil…
Toyoda Gosei sets up automotive hose JV in India
Added: 9 Dec 2014
Kiyosu,Japan – Toyoda Gosei Co. Ltd is establishing an automotive hose joint venture in India with …
Huifu starts gas-phase white carbon black operation
Added: 9 Dec 2014
Hubei, China - Huifu Silicon Materials has opened a 2-kilotonne-per-annum (ktpa) facility for the p…
ExxonMobil predicts major shifts in global energy markets
Added: 9 Dec 2014
Irving, Texas -- Growth in the global middle class, expansion of emerging economies and an addition…
ERJ: Supplier News Tracker
Added: 9 Dec 2014
Bekaert ... SCG Chemicals ... Sumitomo Demag ... BASF ... Cefic Omnova letter ... Dynsol China ... …
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…
