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Update: Mitas to invest in Serbian tire plant

Added: 1 Jul 2014

ERJ staff report (PR)

Ruma, Serbia – Mitas is to expand and modernise its tire factory in Ruma under…

Most read: Safe Rubber accelerator nets chemical innovation award

Added: 30 Jun 2014

ERJ staff report (PR)

Manchester, UK – Robinson Brothers of West Bromwich has earned UK chemical ind…

Konimpex celebrates 25 year anniversary

Added: 30 Jun 2014

ERJ staff report (TP)

Serock, Poland – Rubber chemicals supplier Konimpex Group celebrated its 25th …

REP shows off new facilities, machines

Added: 30 Jun 2014

ERJ staff report (PR)

Corbas, France – REP International highlighted the results of a €4-million inv…

ERJ Round-up: Racing Rubber

Added: 30 Jun 2014

ERJ staff report (TP)

Weekly round-up from the world of racing – reports on Falken ... Acorn Zenises…

Hankook Tyre UK appoints new sales director

Added: 30 Jun 2014

ERJ staff report (TP)

Daventry, UK – Hankook Tyre UK has appointed Brett Emerson as sales director –…

Opinion: How not to close a tire plant

Added: 27 Jun 2014

ERJ staff report (PR)

Birmingham, UK – Goodyear Dunlop has taken heavy flack for its decision to clo…

Moulders getting smaller…and smarter

Added: 27 Jun 2014

ERJ staff report (PR)

Ternitz, Austria - Rubber injection moulding companies increasingly require ma…

Volkswagen supplier award for SaarGummi

Added: 27 Jun 2014

Rubber & Plastics news report

Leipzig, Germany—Volkswagen AG has announced SaarGummi Group as one of…

ERJ Weekly News Review: 27 June

Added: 26 Jun 2014

London – A look-back at some of the top stories of the week. These include the most read and others…

Chemical makers back north of England plan

Added: 26 Jun 2014

Manchester, UK - The Chemical Industries Association (CIA) has welcomed a plan by UK chancellor Geo…

Industry group opposes duties on Chinese tires

Added: 26 Jun 2014

Tire Business report

Bowie, Maryland — The Tire Industry Association (TIA) has come out in oppositio…

Dunlop completes tire production transfer from Birmingham

Added: 25 Jun 2014

Tire Business report

Erdington, UK - Dunlop Motorsport Europe has completed the transfer of race tir…

Teijin advances automotive rubber business in Thailand

Added: 25 Jun 2014

ERJ staff report (PR)

Tokyo, - Teijin Group is increasing its automotive rubber materials business i…

Astorg to purchase global belt maker Megadyne

Added: 25 Jun 2014

RPN staff report (MM)

Fairfield, New .Jersey — Astorg Partners has entered into an agreement to acq…

Machine maker starts CE compliance service for robotic moulding

Added: 25 Jun 2014

ERJ staff report (PR)

TECHNOLOGY - Stoke Mandeville, UK - Sumitomo (SHI) Demag has launched a CE cer…

Update: Kraton 'intends' to withdraw from LCY deal

Added: 25 Jun 2014

ERJ staff report (PR)

Houston, Texas – The board of Kraton Performance Polymers Inc. intends to with…

SIFCA aims to bounce back from rubber price decline

Added: 24 Jun 2014

ERJ staff report (PR)

Abidjan, Ivory Coast – The current decline in natural rubber prices has taken …

Chrysler appeals TPMS ruling in US

Added: 24 Jun 2014

RPN staff report (MM)

Washington —Chrysler Group L.L.C. has filed a petition for a finding of incons…

Stephanie Kwolek, Inventor of Kevlar

Added: 24 Jun 2014

Plastics News report

Stephanie Kwolek, the inventor of Kevlar — the aramid-fibre body armour that ha…