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UK auto making gearing up for strong year, says SMMT
Added: 22 Feb 2013
ERJ staff report (BC)
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
ERJ staff report (BC)
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
ERJ staff report (BC)
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
ERJ staff report (BC)
Neu-Isenburg, Germany – Hankook Tire Europe has been awarded iF Design Awards …

Hankook's third Chinese site starts production
Added: 19 Feb 2013
ERJ staff report (BC)
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 …