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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 …