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Avon Tyres agrees three-year deal with Lotus
Added: 11 Dec 2012
ERJ staff report (LMH)
Melksham, UK - Avon Tyres has signed a three-year agreement with Lotus on Tr…

Petlas to boost farm tire capacity
Added: 11 Dec 2012
ERJ staff report (LMH)
Kirsehir, Turkey - Petlas Tire Corp. is planning to expand capacity for radi…

Mini suspension designer dies aged 92
Added: 10 Dec 2012
ERJ staff report (BC)
Bradford-on-Avon, UK - Dr Alex Moulton, inventor of two different forms of sus…

Nominations close soon for Tire Technology Awards
Added: 10 Dec 2012
ERJ staff report (BC)
Dorking, UK - The Tire Technology International Awards for Innovation and Exce…

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…