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Meteor goes into administration as Ruia deal falls through
Added: 24 Jan 2012
ERJ staff report (DS)
Hildesheim, Germany - Meteor Gummiwerke K. H. Bädje GmbH & Co. KG based in Bo…

Trelleborg divests French auto unit
Added: 24 Jan 2012
ERJ staff report (DS)
Clermont-Ferrand, France - Trelleborg is to sell its French unit which makes r…

News from elsewhere on the web (24 Jan 2012)
Added: 24 Jan 2012
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Omnova raises prices for carpet backing latices
Added: 24 Jan 2012
ERJ staff report (DS)
Fairlawn, Ohio - Omnova Solutions has announced a price increase of $0.12 per …

Keyuan brings first SBS line on stream in Ningbo
Added: 24 Jan 2012
ERJ staff report (DS)
Ningbo, China - Keyuan Petrochemicals Inc. said one of its production lines fo…

RRI of India seeks development partners
Added: 24 Jan 2012
ERJ staff report (DS)
Kottayam, India - The Rubber Research Institute of India (RRII), Rubber Board…

28th Clemson Tire Industry Conference April 18-20
Added: 24 Jan 2012
ERJ staff report (TB)
Hilton Head, South Carolina - The 2012 election, existing or pending tyre reg…

Green Biologics merges with Butylfuel
Added: 24 Jan 2012
ERJ staff report (DS)
Abingdon, UK - Green Biologics Limited (GBL), a UK-based industrial biotechnol…

Cabot completes sales of Supermetals unit
Added: 24 Jan 2012
ERJ staff report (DS)
Boston, Massachusetts - Cabot Corp. has closed the sale of its Supermetals Bus…

Pnebo rolls out scooter tyre range with Delticom
Added: 24 Jan 2012
ERJ staff report (DS)
Hanover, Germany --Italian tyre brand GoldenTyre is introducing a new range of…

NR prices rise through $4 in Tokyo
Added: 24 Jan 2012
ERJ staff report (DS)
London -- Rubber prices increased overnight, amid quiet trading due to the New…

Afriren gets $5m for rubber biomass project
Added: 24 Jan 2012
ERJ staff report (DS)
London - Takoradi Renewable Energy Limited, a subsidiary of Africa Renewables …

Sasco chemical appoints UK rep
Added: 24 Jan 2012
ERJ staff report (R&PN)
Albany, Georgia - Sasco Chemical Group Inc. has appointed Hubron Specialty L…

Columbian expands carbon black plants in Hungary, Spain
Added: 23 Jan 2012
Santander, Spain -- Columbian Chemicals is expanding the capacity of its European sites by 30,000 m…

JSR reports Q3 sales up on 2011
Added: 23 Jan 2012
ERJ staff report (DS)
Tokyo, Japan - JSR Corp is recovering from the earthquake in March this year. …

Delticom reports 2011 revenues up by 14 percent
Added: 23 Jan 2012
ERJ staff report (DS)
Hanover, Germany - Delticom AG Europe's leading online tyre dealer, said reven…

Translate seal jargon to Chinese, Pinyin
Added: 23 Jan 2012
ERJ staff report (DS)
Frankfurt, Germany -- A new multi-language dictionary allows sealing engineers…

Cooper reaches tentative agreement with Texarkana union members
Added: 23 Jan 2012
ERJ staff report (TB)
Texarkana, Arkansas -- Cooper Tire & Rubber Co. has reached a tentative agreem…

News from elsewhere on the web (23 Jan 2012)
Added: 23 Jan 2012
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London--The following links showed up in our daily search for news on the web. Readers mi…

NR Prices unchanged ahead of Chinese New Year
Added: 23 Jan 2012
ERJ staff report (DS)
London -- Rubber prices were largely unchanged over the weekend, ahead of the …