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UK auto making gearing up for strong year, says SMMT

Added: 22 Feb 2013

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London – The Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) has issued Janu…

Cooper to open global technical centre

Added: 22 Feb 2013

ERJ staff report (TB)

Findlay, Ohio – Cooper Tire & Rubber Co. is working with the State of Ohio to …

Bridgestone to build new plant at Shenyang

Added: 22 Feb 2013

ERJ staff report (BC)

Tokyo – Bridgestone Corporation’s subsidiary in China, Bridgestone (Shenyang) …

DIY rubber cement brought down $4.6m drone

Added: 21 Feb 2013

ERJ staff report (BC)

Washington, DC – Someone “tacked into place” a software chip that controlled a…

German auto organisations commend Falken summer tire

Added: 21 Feb 2013

ERJ staff report (BC)

Offenbach am Main, Germany – The Gesellschaft für Technische Überwachung (GTÜ)…

Blair Rubber launches online spec tools for rubber lining

Added: 21 Feb 2013

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Seville, Ohio – Blair Rubber Co has revised its website with new tools to assi…

Titan boss mauls Goodyear's Amiens workers over 'three-hour day'

Added: 21 Feb 2013

ERJ staff report (BC)

London – Maurice Taylor, CEO of US tire and wheel manufacturer Titan, has caus…

Fire at Thai rubber plant

Added: 21 Feb 2013

ERJ staff report (BC)

Bangkok – There was a fire at a rubber factory operated by an exporter in the …

No messing with genes to produce dandelion rubber

Added: 20 Feb 2013

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Enschede, Netherlands – Dutch biotech firm KeyGene has joined tire manufacture…

Pirelli to sponsor UK Porsche racers

Added: 20 Feb 2013

ERJ staff report (BC)

Burton upon Trent, UK – Pirelli has signed a minimum three-year deal to sponso…

Hankook to launch truck retread range in UK

Added: 20 Feb 2013

ERJ staff report (BC)

Daventry, UK – Hankook will exhibit a new bead-to-bead retread truck tire rang…

Bridgestone posts double-digit earnings gains

Added: 20 Feb 2013

ERJ staff report (BC)

Tokyo – Lower raw materials costs and an improved product mix led to double-di…

Autoneum plans foothold in Russian automotive market

Added: 20 Feb 2013

ERJ staff report (BC)

Winterthur, Switzerland – Beginning in autumn 2013, Autoneum will be producing…

Mallard Creek Polymers offers concreting aids for oil and gas engineering

Added: 19 Feb 2013

ERJ staff report (BC)

Charlotte, North Carolina - Mallard Creek Polymers, Inc. (MCP) has launched a …

Zeon Chemicals develops bio-derived synthetic rubber

Added: 19 Feb 2013

ERJ staff report (BC)

Louisville, Kentucky - An epichlorohydrin monomer derived from palm and other …

Dow to unveil new subsea thermal insulation

Added: 19 Feb 2013

ERJ staff report (BC)

Midland, Michigan, USA – Dow Corning Corporation will launch a solid, non-synt…

Design awards for Hankook's marketing team

Added: 19 Feb 2013

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Neu-Isenburg, Germany – Hankook Tire Europe has been awarded iF Design Awards …

Hankook's third Chinese site starts production

Added: 19 Feb 2013

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Shanghai - Hankook Tire's plant in the southwest China municipality of Chongqi…

ExxonMobil licenses Santoprene to RTP

Added: 18 Feb 2013

Houston, Texas – ExxonMobil Chemical Co. has licensed its Santoprene thermoplastic vulcanisate nylo…

F1 teams to test Pirelli tires at Barcelona

Added: 18 Feb 2013

ERJ staff report (BC)

Milan - Formula One motor racing teams will be in Barcelona this week for the …