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Bridgestone opens 'ready for 2050' website

Added: 25 Jun 2012

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Tokyo -- Bridgestone has opened a website in which is demonstrates it prepared…

Is carbon black an analog for graphene? Researchers think so

Added: 25 Jun 2012

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London - Researchers at the Singapore-based Nanyang Technological University a…

Tokyo NR prices plunge below $3

Added: 25 Jun 2012

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London - Rubber prices eased again over the weekend. On Tokyo's Tocom Exchange…

InterFace buys Freudenberg plate seal unit

Added: 25 Jun 2012

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Lancaster, Pennsylvania -- Interface Solutions, Inc. said it has bought Freude…

Vail Rubber adding roller plant in Alabama

Added: 25 Jun 2012

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St Joseph, Michigan -- Vail Rubber Works Inc. plans to improve its supply of…

BRC Rubber buys Veyance unit assets in Canada

Added: 25 Jun 2012

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Churubusco , Indiana --BRC Rubber & Plastics Inc. has acquired the equipmen…

Rubber Research to buy Hi Tek Rubber

Added: 25 Jun 2012

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Minneapolis, Minnesota -- Rubber Research, Inc.,is intending to buy another sc…

Global tyre industry studied

Added: 25 Jun 2012

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Dublin, Ireland - Just-Auto has published a new report titled, Global market r…

Pirelli UK promotes Sandivasci

Added: 25 Jun 2012

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Burton-on-Trent, UK -- - Dominic Sandivasci, Managing Director of Pirelli UK s…

US roofing company opens EPDM sheeting line

Added: 25 Jun 2012

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Denver, Colorado -- Johns Manville has opened a new commercial roofing single-…

Michelin trialling 'smart' bus tyres at London Olympics

Added: 21 Jun 2012

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London -- Michelin is installing 'smart' tyres on a fleet of buses used for th…

Acquisition makes Cabot world leader in activated carbon

Added: 21 Jun 2012

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Boston, Massachusetts -- Cabot Corp. is to buy Norit N.V., the global leader i…

Cordiant to invest in Omsk region

Added: 21 Jun 2012

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Omsk, Russia -- Russian tyre maker Cordiant is to invest more than euro 240 mi…

Toyo consolidates non-tyre business unit

Added: 21 Jun 2012

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Osaka, Japan -- Toyo Tire & Rubber is re-structuring its non-tyre business uni…

Jama releases automotive data book

Added: 21 Jun 2012

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Tokyo -- Japan's federation of vehicle makers JAMA has published it's annual d…

Gevo to make bio-isobutanol in Malaysia

Added: 21 Jun 2012

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Englewood, Colorado -- Gevo, Inc. is planning to build a cellulosic biomass is…

H&M closing Ohio plant, costing 84 jobs

Added: 21 Jun 2012

H&M closing Ohio plant, costing 84 jobs

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Kent, Ohio -- H&M Rubber Co. Inc.'s p…

Getting beyond Chinese hospitality

Added: 21 Jun 2012

By David Shaw, ERJ staff

Shanghai, China -- Chinese people - like people the world over - like to ma…

Tyre markets eased into May - Pirelli

Added: 21 Jun 2012

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Milan, Italy -- Pirelli has updated its website with tyre sales in different …

Freudenberg posts record sales in India

Added: 21 Jun 2012

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Bangalore, India - Freudenberg's sales in India rose to Rs 9560 million (euro…