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Yulex CEO named Entrepreneur of The Year finalist
Added: 21 May 2014
ERJ staff report (TP)
Phoenix, Arizona – Jeff Martin, co-founder and CEO of Yulex, the agricultural …

UK rapid prototyping unit targets oil & gas seals
Added: 20 May 2014
ERJ staff report (PR)
Warrington, UK – ERIKS Sealing Technology has opened a new development facilit…

Wacker Polymers to raise prices for dispersions in EMEA
Added: 20 May 2014
ERJ staff report (TP)
Munich, Germany – Wacker Polymers is to maintain its price adjustment for viny…

Toyoda Gosei acquires assets of German rubber supplier Meteor
Added: 20 May 2014
ERJ staff report (TP)
Nagoya, Japan – Toyoda Gosei Meteor GmbH (TG Meteor), a German subsidiary of T…

OMV expands butadiene production with €30m Austrian investment
Added: 20 May 2014
ERJ staff report (TP)
Vienna – Austrian oil and gas group OMV extended its butadiene plant at the Sc…

Sinopec and SIBUR set up strategic cooperation
Added: 20 May 2014
ERJ staff report (TP)
Shanghai, China – Witnessed by Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian Presid…

Mitas developing special Powerpull tire
Added: 20 May 2014
ERJ staff report (TP)
Prague – Czech tire maker Mitas signed a sponsorship agreement with the Europe…

Lanxess increases prices for rubber chemicals
Added: 20 May 2014
ERJ staff report (TP)
Cologne, Germany – Specialty chemicals company Lanxess will raise the off list…

Semperit records best Q1 2014 result ever
Added: 20 May 2014
ERJ staff report (TP)
Vienna – Semperit AG, which makes rubber and plastic products for the medical …

HF moving Hamburg extruder-making operation to Slovakia
Added: 20 May 2014
ERJ staff report (PR)
Hamburg, Germany – HF TireTech is moving its extrusion-machinery manufacturing…

JK Tyres to double capacity at Chennai plant
Added: 19 May 2014
ERJ staff report (TP)
Jamshedpur, India – JK Tyres will double capacity at its greenfield plant in C…

Essen essential to Maxxis' European expansion
Added: 19 May 2014
ERJ staff report (TP)
Essen, Germany – Maxxis says it will head to the trade fair Reifen Essen 2014 …

Reifen show organisers to honour innovations
Added: 19 May 2014
ERJ staff report (TB)
Essen, Germany – The organisers of the Reifen 2014 trade show in Essen, runnin…

EU standard threatens industrial wireless
Added: 19 May 2014
ERJ staff report (PR)
London – Wireless technology has become a growing feature of many operations i…

Pirelli supersoft tires make Monaco GP debut
Added: 19 May 2014
ERJ staff report (TP)
Milan, Italy – Pirelli’s P Zero Red supersoft tires make their 2014 debut at t…

Techy SABIC planning world's first oil-to-chemicals complex
Added: 19 May 2014
ERJ staff report (PR)
Riyadh – SABIC is studying a plan to construct the world’s first oil-to-chemic…

Apollo to build €500m plant in Europe
Added: 16 May 2014
ERJ staff report (TB)
Gurgaon, India – Apollo Tyres Ltd.’s board of directors has approved an invest…

Brazil to compensate rubber workers from WW2
Added: 16 May 2014
ERJ staff report (TP)
Brasilia – The Brazilian Congress has approved a plan to compensate workers se…

Evonik inaugurates new building for applied technology
Added: 16 May 2014
ERJ staff report (TP)
Wesseling, Germany – Evonik Industries inaugurated a new building to house pre…

Bridgestone to debut agri tire at Reifen Essen
Added: 16 May 2014
ERJ staff report (TP)
Brussels – Bridgestone will debut its first premium agricultural tire at this …