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Cooper Standard buys Sigit
Added: 10 Jan 2012
ERJ staff report (DS)
Novi, Michigan -- Cooper Standard has bought the automotive sealing business o…

Sibur-Russian Tyres in management buy-out
Added: 10 Jan 2012
Moscow -- Sibur-Russian Tyres is under new ownership. The former parent, Sibur Holding has sold the…

Freudenberg encourages women to succeed in engineering
Added: 10 Jan 2012
ERJ staff report (LMH)
Weinheim, Germany -- The automobile and automotive components industry is oft…

Goodyear launches RFID-chip truck tyres
Added: 10 Jan 2012
ERJ staff report (DS)
Kontich, Belgium -- Goodyear says the introduction of its Goodyear Regional RH…

NR prices rise overnight
Added: 10 Jan 2012
ERJ staff report (DS)
London -- Rubber prices increased slightly overnight. On Tokyo's Tocom Exchang…

Semperit begins publication of client magazine
Added: 10 Jan 2012
ERJ staff report (DS)
Wimpassing, Austria -- Semperit AG has published the first edition of a new ho…

News from elsewhere on the web (10 Jan 2012)
Added: 10 Jan 2012
(19 items)
London--The following links showed up in our daily search for news on the web. Readers mi…

Baosteel to begin steelcord production later this year
Added: 10 Jan 2012
ERJ staff report (DS)
Jiangsu Haimen Haibao Industrial Park, China -- Jiangsu Baosteel has begun con…

CRIA publishes December prices of rubber materials in China
Added: 9 Jan 2012
ERJ staff report (DS)
Beijing -- The China Rubber Industry Association (CRIA) has published a compre…

Cabot's Transfinity to open way for new products
Added: 9 Jan 2012
By David Shaw, ERJ staff
Boston, Massachusetts -- Cabot Corp's Transfinity product will allow rubber…

China releases tyre pricing data for December
Added: 9 Jan 2012
ERJ staff report (DS)
Beijing -- The China Rubber Industry Association has published the selling pri…

Bridgestone to increase prices of retread materials in Europe
Added: 9 Jan 2012
ERJ staff report (LMH)
Brussels - Bridgestone Europe will roll out a new round of price increases fo…

News from elsewhere on the web (09 Jan 2012)
Added: 9 Jan 2012
(25 items)
London--The following links showed up in our daily search for news on the web. Readers mi…

NR Prices largely unchanged over the weekend
Added: 9 Jan 2012
ERJ staff report (DS)
London -- Rubber prices remained weak, but largely unchanged over the weekend.…

IRSG names Werner as economist/statistician
Added: 9 Jan 2012
ERJ staff report (DS)
Singapore -- Sebastian Werner has joined IRSG as a Economist & Statistician. W…

Conti expanding tread rubber capacity at Mexican plant
Added: 9 Jan 2012
ERJ staff report (R&PN)
Bonita Springs, Florida -- Continental Tire the Americas L.L.C. is tripling …

Omnova Solutions to increase US prices
Added: 9 Jan 2012
ERJ staff report (R&PN)
Fairlawn, Ohio -- Omnova Solutions Inc.'s Specialty Chemicals business said …

Updated report on Thailand's butadiene market published
Added: 9 Jan 2012
ERJ staff report (LMH)
Dublin -- Research and Markets has added GlobalData's new report "Butadiene I…

Tirex forms JV for recycling scrap tyres
Added: 9 Jan 2012
ERJ staff report (LMH)
Westport, Connecticut -- Tirex Corp., owner of a patented tyre recycling tech…

Orion Engineered Carbons updates names of subsidiaries
Added: 6 Jan 2012
ERJ staff report (LMH)
London - Orion Engineered Carbons, which was formed last year from the former…