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Kraton announces universal price rises
Added: 2 Mar 2012
ERJ staff report (DS)
Houston, Texas - Kraton Polymers has announced global price increases in its p…

News from elsewhere on the web (02 March 2012)
Added: 2 Mar 2012
(11 items)
London--The following links showed up in our daily search for news on the web. Readers mi…

Chinese SR market studied
Added: 2 Mar 2012
ERJ staff report (DS)
Dublin, Ireland -- Reports from China has published a new report titled, China…

NR prices little changed on Friday
Added: 2 Mar 2012
ERJ staff report (DS)
London -- Rubber prices showed little change overnight. On Tokyo's Tocom Excha…

Heitmann writes guest editorial for Reuters
Added: 2 Mar 2012
ERJ staff report (DS)
Leverkusen, Germany - CEO of Lanxess, Dr Axel Heitmann, has written a guest ed…

Amerityre's loss deepens in Q2 despite higher sales
Added: 2 Mar 2012
ERJ staff report (TB)
Boulder City, Nevada - Amerityre Corp. suffered a net loss of $230,348 for the…

Tatneft products 350 millionth Kama brand tyre
Added: 1 Mar 2012
ERJ staff report (LMH)
Nizhnekamsk, Russia -- The 350 millionth Kama 310 brand tyre has rolled off t…

Conti continued strong growth in 2011
Added: 1 Mar 2012
ERJ staff report (DS)
Hannover, Germany - Continental's rubber group reported sales up by 20 percent…

Sibur sells Voronezh tyre plant to Pirelli JV
Added: 1 Mar 2012
ERJ staff report (DS)
Moscow - Pirelli & C. SpA and Russian Technologies have finalised the transfer…

Lanxess raises CR prices... again
Added: 1 Mar 2012
ERJ staff report (DS)
Leverkusen, Germany - Lanxess has announced yet another worldwide price increa…

Lanxess signs C4 supply deal for Singapore BR plant
Added: 1 Mar 2012
ERJ staff report (DS)
Singapore, Leverkusen - Lanxess will break ground for its new neodymium polyb…

Cooper to work with Yulex' Guayule material
Added: 1 Mar 2012
ERJ staff report (DS)
Findlay, Ohio - Cooper Tire & Rubber is to work with Yulex Corp to try and com…

NR prices show little change on Thursday
Added: 1 Mar 2012
ERJ staff report (DS)
London -- Rubber prices showed little change overnight. On Tokyo's Tocom Excha…

News from elsewhere on the web (01 March 2012)
Added: 1 Mar 2012
(12 items)
London--The following links showed up in our daily search for news on the web. Readers mi…

Bridgestone pushes latest winter tyres
Added: 1 Mar 2012
ERJ staff report (DS)
Brussels - Just as the weak 2011/2012 Winter season ends, Bridgestone is pushi…

Michelin pushes latest Alpin winter tyres
Added: 1 Mar 2012
ERJ staff report (DS)
Paris - Michelin is premiering its Pilot Alpin and Latitude Alpin, two winter …

Nokian claims wins in two tyre tests
Added: 1 Mar 2012
ERJ staff report (DS)
Nokia, Finland - Nokian reports success in two recent tyre tests.
The company s…

Trelleborg completes sale of French automotive unit
Added: 1 Mar 2012
ERJ staff report (DS)
Clermont, France - Trelleborg has completed the divestment of its operation th…

Kraton makes a net loss for the year
Added: 1 Mar 2012
ERJ staff report (DS)
Houston, Texas - Kraton sold 62 kt of its styrenic block copolymer products in…

Russian tyre market studied
Added: 1 Mar 2012
ERJ staff report (DS)
Dublin, Ireland -- TechSci Research has published a new report titled, Russia…