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Singapore prepares for the World Rubber Summit 2012
Added: 2 Apr 2012
ERJ staff report (LMH)
Singapore -- IRSG (International Rubber Study Group) will announce the latest…

Asia Carbon reports 2011 net income up 123%
Added: 2 Apr 2012
ERJ staff report (LMH)
New York -- Asia Carbon Industries Inc. saw sales rise by 65 percent in 2011…

Michelin tops JDPower's OE tyre satisfaction study
Added: 30 Mar 2012
ERJ staff report (DS)
Westlake Village, California - Michelin has come out top in three out of four …

ANRPC further downgrades NR supply forecasts
Added: 30 Mar 2012
ERJ staff report (DS)
Kuala Lumpur - The Association of Natural Rubber Producing countries - ANRPC h…

News from elsewhere on the web (30 March 2012)
Added: 30 Mar 2012
(5 items)
London--The following links showed up in our daily search for news on the web. Readers mig…

Cabot raises prices globally for speciality carbon black
Added: 30 Mar 2012
ERJ staff report (DS)
Boston, Massachusetts - Effective April 20, 2012, Cabot Corporation will incre…

NR prices ease belwo $4 in Tokyo
Added: 30 Mar 2012
ERJ staff report (DS)
London -- Rubber prices eased below $4 in Tokyo. On Tokyo's Tocom Exchange,…

Bridgestone to make urethane products in Kaiping
Added: 30 Mar 2012
ERJ staff report (DS)
Tokyo-- Bridgestone Corp. has announced plans for a new company to make, proce…

China sets up 4-year project for Nd-BR
Added: 30 Mar 2012
ERJ staff report (DS)
Changchun, China - China has reportedly begin a four-year research project to …

US tyre market will grow thanks to green tyres - study
Added: 30 Mar 2012
ERJ staff report (DS)
Dublin, Ireland - AM Mind Power has published a new report titled, The US Repl…

Conti breaks ground on China plant expansion
Added: 30 Mar 2012
ERJ staff report (TB)
Hefei, China -- Continental A.G. has broken ground on a $215 million expansion…

US Rubber product trade deficit grows
Added: 30 Mar 2012
ERJ staff report (R&PN)
Washington DC - The US rubber product trade deficit grew again in October as…

Maplan marks 40 years of polymer machines
Added: 30 Mar 2012
ERJ staff report (DS)
Ternitz, Austria - Maplan is marking 40 years of polymer processing equipment …

Conti S.C. plant to start production in early 2014
Added: 29 Mar 2012
ERJ staff report (TB)
Sumter, South Carolina -- Continental Tire the Americas L.L.C. (CTA) expects p…

Ga. DOT amends road construction specs to allow rubberized asphalt
Added: 29 Mar 2012
ERJ staff report (TB)
ATLANTA (March 28, 2012) - The Georgia Department of Transportation (GDOT) has…

Semperit sales increase
Added: 29 Mar 2012
ERJ staff report (DS)
Vienna, March 29, 2012 - The publically listed Semperit Group achieved an incr…

Yokohama to build car tyre plant in India
Added: 28 Mar 2012
ERJ staff report (DS)
Tokyo - The Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd. announced today that it would construct …

NR prices drift down toward $4 in Tokyo
Added: 28 Mar 2012
ERJ staff report (DS)
London -- Rubber prices eased overnight, but remained above $4 in Tokyo. O…

News from elsewhere on the web (28 March 2012)
Added: 28 Mar 2012
(11 items)
London--The following links showed up in our daily search for news on the web. Readers mi…

Dunlop India taking advice from solicitors
Added: 28 Mar 2012
ERJ staff report (DS)
Kolkata, India - Further to the announcement that Indian courts have appointed…