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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
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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…

Lanxess consolidating rubber chemical production
Added: 28 Mar 2012
ERJ staff report (DS)
Brunsbüttel, Germany - Lanxess is to cease manufacture of an intermediate fo…

Moody's assigns Ba1 rating to Goodyear debt
Added: 28 Mar 2012
ERJ staff report (DS)
New York -- Moody's Investors Service assigned a Ba1 rating to The Goodyear Ti…

Michelin claims success for mobile version of website
Added: 28 Mar 2012
ERJ staff report (DS)
Cyberspace - At the end of last year, Michelin optimised its website for mobil…

EU commercial vehicle registrations fell in February
Added: 27 Mar 2012
ERJ staff report (DS)
Brussels - In February, demand for new commercial vehicles was down in all maj…

Natural, synthetic rubber use increased in India in December
Added: 27 Mar 2012
ERJ staff report (DS)
Kottayam, Kerala, India - Production of Natural Rubber
(NR) in India during
Dece…

China's rubber industry faces seven challenges - CRIA
Added: 27 Mar 2012
ERJ staff report (DS)
Qingdao, China - China's rubber industry faces seven challenges, according to …

News from elsewhere on the web (27 March 2012)
Added: 27 Mar 2012
(24 items)
London--The following links showed up in our daily search for news on the web. Readers m…