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Bridgestone sets up mining unit in N America
Added: 3 Feb 2012
ERJ staff report (DS)
Nashville, Tennessee - Bridgestone Americas Tire Operations (BATO) is re-orga…

Veyance closing Canadian plant
Added: 3 Feb 2012
By Mike McNulty, Crain staff (R&PN)
Owen Sound, Ontario - Veyance Technologies Canada Inc. plans to…

Carlisle earnings up despite tyre/wheel unit issues
Added: 3 Feb 2012
ERJ staff report (TB)
Cnarlotte, North Carolina - Carlisle Cos. Inc. reported a 40.3-pecent jump in…

Nankang wins 'Taiwan Excellence' award
Added: 3 Feb 2012
ERJ staff report (TB)
Taipei, Taiwan - Nankang Rubber Tire Corp. Ltd. has won a “Taiwan Excellence…

NR prices largely unchanged in Tokyo, Singapore
Added: 3 Feb 2012
ERJ staff report (DS)
London -- Rubber prices rose slightly overnight. On Tokyo's Tocom Exchange, pr…

Eco-Rubber announces bollard made from post-consumer rubber
Added: 3 Feb 2012
ERJ staff report (DS)
Valencia, Spain - A joint research project into uses for scrap tyres has devel…

Bekaert restructures; steelcord unaffected
Added: 3 Feb 2012
ERJ staff report (DS)
Kortrijk, Belgium - Bekaert has announced a substantial restructuring of its o…

Dunlop India sales plummet after dispute at Sahaganj
Added: 2 Feb 2012
Kolkata, India -- Dunlop India Ltd has reported dramatically lower sales and large losses in the th…

French industry launches rubber industry website
Added: 2 Feb 2012
ERJ staff report (DS)
Paris - Sponsored by various French institutions, a new website has been laun…

Mesnac buys Beijing Jingyie
Added: 2 Feb 2012
ERJ staff report (DS)
Qingdao Free Trade Zone, China - Mesnac Co., Ltd. Is to purchase 100 percent …

Karol Vanko honored for Chinese Friendship
Added: 2 Feb 2012
ERJ staff report (DS)
Beijing - Karol Vanko, head of the Mesnac European Research and Technical Cent…

Nolato lower sales and profits for 2011
Added: 2 Feb 2012
ERJ staff report (DS)
Torekov, Sweden - Nolato AB said sales and profits fell in the 12 months to De…

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

NR prices largely unchanged overnight
Added: 2 Feb 2012
ERJ staff report (DS)
London -- Rubber prices eased overnight. On Tokyo's Tocom Exchange, prices for…

Tokai offers more details on Vision 2015
Added: 2 Feb 2012
ERJ staff report (DS)
Tokyo - Tokai Rubber Industries has given more details of its revised vision 2…

Cabot reports higher revenues on lower black sales in Q1
Added: 2 Feb 2012
ERJ staff report (DS)
Boston, Massachusetts - Cabot Corp reported significantly higher sales in the …

India approves natural rubber as asphalt modifier in roads
Added: 2 Feb 2012
ERJ staff report (DS)
New Delhi, India - The use of natural rubber modified bitumen has been specifi…

ContiTech partners with HELL in flexographic printing
Added: 2 Feb 2012
ERJ staff report (DS)
Hanover, Germany - ContiTech Elastomer Coatings and HellGravure Systems plan t…

Apollo's Chennai plant has made 1 million TBR tyres
Added: 2 Feb 2012
ERJ staff report (DS)
Chennai, India - This week Apollo Tyres' tyre manufacturing facility in Chenn…

Triangle launches euro 600 million fund-raiser
Added: 2 Feb 2012
ERJ staff report (DS)
Beijing - Triangle Tire said it has issued loan notes worth yuan 5000 million …