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NR prices jump over the weekend
Added: 21 May 2012
ERJ staff report (DS)
London - Rubber prices rebounded on Monday. On Tokyo's Tocom Exchange, prices …

Dunlop India falls to loss on plummeting income
Added: 21 May 2012
ERJ staff report (DS)
Kolkata, India - Sales for the full year at troubled tyre maker Dunlop India L…

ShengdaTech files for Chapter 11
Added: 21 May 2012
ERJ staff report (DS)
San Francisco, California - Chinese calcium carbonate maker ShengdaTech has fi…

CSR wins big order for wind turbine components
Added: 21 May 2012
ERJ staff report (DS)
ZhuZhou, China - CSR Zhuzhou has won a large order for anti-vibration componen…

Rubber Board to hold rubber sheet training
Added: 21 May 2012
ERJ staff report (LMH)
Kottayam, India -- The Indian Rubber Board is organising a training programme…

Study pegs tyre tariff impact at $1 billion
Added: 21 May 2012
ERJ staff report (TB)
By Bruce Davis, Tire Business staff
Washington, D.C. - A nonpartisan research i…

Bridgestone supports global conservation initiatives
Added: 21 May 2012
ERJ staff report (LMH)
Tokyo -- Bridgestone Corp. is highlighting its many global initiatives to he…

ENI/Versalis to add EPDM, S-SBR capacity
Added: 18 May 2012
By David Shaw, ERJ staff
Milan, Italy - Versalis, the re-named ENI subsidiary, is to add capacity fo…

Oriental Carbon brings new insoluble sulphur capacity on stream
Added: 18 May 2012
ERJ staff report (DS)
Mundra, Gujarat - In a brief Stock Exchange announcement, Indian chemical comp…

Mitsui publishes annual results; comments on resorcinol blast
Added: 18 May 2012
ERJ staff report (DS)
Tokyo - Mitsui Chemicals has published its annual results, and also issued a s…

News from elsewhere on the web (18 May 2012)
Added: 18 May 2012
(18 items)
London--The following links showed up in our daily search for news on the web. Readers mi…

Michelin UK launches tyre labelling website
Added: 18 May 2012
ERJ staff report (DS)
Stoke-on-trent, UK - Michelin UK has launched a dedicated tyre labelling infor…

NR prices mixed ahead of the weekend
Added: 18 May 2012
ERJ staff report (DS)
London - Rubber prices were mixed on Friday. On Tokyo's Tocom Exchange, prices…

Infinity exhibited at UK's CV show
Added: 18 May 2012
ERJ staff report (DS)
Birmingham, UK - Infinity Tyres recently participated at the Commercial Vehicl…

Indian Rubber Board invites replanting applications
Added: 18 May 2012
ERJ staff report (DS)
Kottayam, India - India's Rubber Board has invited applications from growers f…

European tyre market studied
Added: 18 May 2012
ERJ staff report (DS)
Dublin, Ireland -- Datamonitor has published a new report titled, Hot Topics a…

Triangle to move into radial aircraft tyres
Added: 17 May 2012
ERJ staff report (DS)
Weihai, China - Triangle Tyre Co has formed an alliance with a Chinese researc…

Bio-isoprene video emerges on EV website
Added: 17 May 2012
ERJ staff report (DS)
Michigan - US website EVWorld has posted a two-part interview with Dr. Thomas …

Rubber executives seek backers for new technology
Added: 17 May 2012
ERJ staff report (RPN)
By Miles Moore, Rubber & Plastics News Staff
Hilton Head, South Carolina -- Ex…

Bridgestone says dandelion latex shows promising results
Added: 17 May 2012
ERJ staff report (DS)
Tokyo - Bridgestone Corp. said the Russian Dandelion can become a commercially…