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Cabot launches Transfinity grades for mining and NVH uses
Added: 10 Dec 2012
ERJ staff report (BC)
Billerica, Massachusetts - Cabot Corporation. has released commercial grades o…

China passenger car sales near two-year high
Added: 10 Dec 2012
ERJ staff report (LMH)
London - Sales of passenger cars in China rose to the highest level in almos…

Malaysia promotes rubber medical gloves over vinyl
Added: 10 Dec 2012
ERJ staff report (BC)
Petaling Jaya - The Malaysian Rubber Export Promotion Council (MREPC) organise…

Trelleborg sets new business targets
Added: 10 Dec 2012
ERJ staff report (BC)
Trelleborg, Sweden - Industrial elastomer technology specialist Trelleborg hel…

Cambodian PM tells minorities their future is rubber
Added: 10 Dec 2012
ERJ staff report (BC)
Phnom Penh - Visiting Cambodia's Ratanakkiri province, Prime Minister Hun Sen …

Researchers develop way to recycle rubber using elastomeric powders
Added: 10 Dec 2012
ERJ staff report (LMH)
Oberhausen, Germany -- Researchers from the Fraunhofer UMSICHT Institute ha…

Goodyear transferring stock to NASDAQ
Added: 10 Dec 2012
ERJ staff report (BC)
New York - On 7 December Goodyear Tire & Rubber announced it will transfer its…

King aims to boost rubber additives business
Added: 10 Dec 2012
ERJ staff report (LMH)
Norwalk, Connecticut - King Industries Inc. is looking for its relationship …

Indian skill centre to address rubber manpower crunch
Added: 7 Dec 2012
ERJ staff report (BC)
Delhi - In an initiative to resolve manpower problems in the Indian rubber ind…

Philippines expects its rubber industry to improve market share
Added: 7 Dec 2012
ERJ staff report (BC)
Quezon City - The Philippines government is confident that the country will so…

Sears reviving Roadhandler brand
Added: 7 Dec 2012
ERJ staff report (BC)
Hoffmann Estates, Illinois - One of America's best known tire brands is return…

Metzeler supplies BMW motorcycle rally
Added: 7 Dec 2012
ERJ staff report (BC)
Edingen-Neckarhausen - Metzeler was the sole tire supplier to the BMW Motorra…

57in off-highway tire from Apollo Tyres
Added: 7 Dec 2012
ERJ staff report (BC)
Kolkata - Apollo Tyres has launched XTRAX 40.00-57, claimed to be the largest …

Trelleborg wins €2.4m AVS contract for London Jubilee line
Added: 6 Dec 2012
ERJ staff report (LMH)
London -- Trelleborg Industrial AVS has won a contract worth over £2 millio…

ContiTech opens new compounds plant in Hungary
Added: 6 Dec 2012
ERJ staff report (LMH)
NyÃregyháza, Hungary -- ContiTech has opened a new plant for rubber comp…

EU tyre label will 'improve market dynamics' - Aeolus
Added: 6 Dec 2012
ERJ staff report (LMH)
Dordrecht, the Netherlands - Chinese tyre maker Aeolus Tyres believes mandat…

Next year could be 'unlucky 13' for UK motor trade
Added: 5 Dec 2012
ERJ staff report (BC)
Next year could see a dip in sales of newly-registered cars if superstitious b…

ATS Euromaster responds to UK Autumn Statement
Added: 5 Dec 2012
ERJ staff report (BC)
Ian Stuart, group managing director of tire distributor ATS Euromaster, has we…

MRF profits down in Q4
Added: 5 Dec 2012
ERJ staff report (BC)
Indian tyre maker MRF Ltd has reported a 58.3 percent drop in net profits duri…

Vietnam may join top rubber producers' group
Added: 5 Dec 2012
ERJ staff report (BC)
Kuala Lumpur - Vietnam, the world's fourth-largest rubber exporter, may join t…