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Goodyear expects EMEA challenges to persist
Added: 26 Feb 2024
There will still "be more work for us to do beyond 2025,” says CFO Christina Zamarro

UNECE progresses tire particle emissions project with measurement methodology
Added: 26 Feb 2024
Data collected through proposed methods to be used for determining tire abrasion limits

SI Group reorganises China production under new local partnership
Added: 26 Feb 2024
Links up with Liaoning Dingjide Petrochemical for manufacture of certain products, to sell assets i…

Continental divesting Finnish stud specialist Tikka Spikes
Added: 26 Feb 2024
Management buyout option will see both parties continuing supply, development and testing partnersh…

Sumitomo Rubber exceeds mid-term targets, turns North America profitable
Added: 23 Feb 2024
Japanese group to continue work on US tire plant, improve profitability of imported tires to the co…

ERJ: Rubber & tire industry in numbers
Added: 23 Feb 2024
Michelin... Bridgestone... Goodyear... Trelleborg... SRI... Continental... Freudenberg... WDK... Ca…

Nordmann announces new partnerships in Spain, DACH region
Added: 23 Feb 2024
German distributor signs agreements with Spanish manufacturer Condensia and chemicals supplier Weyl…

Pirelli signs insurance agreement linked to UN sustainability goals
Added: 23 Feb 2024
Developed in collaboration with insurance groups Generali GC&C and Aon, initiative focuses on train…

Enviro breaks ground on new Swedish tire recycling plant
Added: 23 Feb 2024
End-of-life tire pyrolysis unit in Uddevalla set to become operational by end of 2025

German rubber production down as industry loses ground to ‘non-EU’ rivals
Added: 22 Feb 2024
Rubber industry association WDK says a 10% increase in revenue “not enough to fully compensate” ris…

Automotive supplier Zhongding investing €260m in China R&D, chassis project
Added: 22 Feb 2024
Intelligent chassis project to focus on air suspension systems, sealing systems and other rubber pa…

Apollo Tyres reports 32% higher profits for third quarter
Added: 22 Feb 2024
Tire maker’s European operations “outperformed” market during the three month s to end of December …

Sumitomo Rubber divests Swiss medical rubber subsidiary Lonstroff
Added: 22 Feb 2024
Sells all shares of Lonstroff AG and its 100% subsidiary Lonstroff Medical Elastomers in Slovenia t…

EU new car registrations up 12% in January
Added: 22 Feb 2024
Market rebounds from slowdown experienced in December last year, according to ACEA

Tire recycler L4T Group planning first plant in US
Added: 22 Feb 2024
Life for Tyres Group setting up waste tire processing facility at Port of South Louisiana

New Goodyear boss to centre focus on rationalisation plan
Added: 21 Feb 2024
Mark Stewart to focus on “clean sheeting and share cost activities”, production complexity and go-t…

European industry leaders call for ‘urgent action’ to restore competitiveness
Added: 21 Feb 2024
Antwerp Declaration calls on EU to address "regulatory incoherence, conflicting objectives, unneces…

Cabot carbon elastomers gain traction in off-road tire market
Added: 21 Feb 2024
Adoption of materials will require changes to mixing plant of tire factories
Toyo Tire reports record results as costs decline
Added: 21 Feb 2024
Automotive parts business returns to growth, as tires unit posts 65% year-on-year increase in earni…

Trelleborg, Celanese develop recyclable vehicle suspension unit
Added: 21 Feb 2024
New jounce bumper uses a blow-moulded, hollow thermoplastic elastomer as opposed to polyurethane fo…