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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…