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ElringKlinger AG acquires Thawa GmbH

Added: 4 Jan 2012

ERJ staff report (DS)

Dettingen, Germany -- Automotive gasket supplier ElringKlinger AG has acquired…

News from elsewhere on the web (04 Jan 2012)

Added: 4 Jan 2012

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London--The following links showed up in our daily search for news on the web. Readers mi…

Rubber compounds burn in Hamburg warehouse - report

Added: 4 Jan 2012

ERJ staff report (DS)

Hamburg, Germany -- A fire at warehousing and logistics company HD Cotterell &…

India begins tapping root-trained rubber plants

Added: 4 Jan 2012

ERJ staff report (DS)

Kottatam, India -- Rubber seedlings planted in 2005, and developed using a new…

LCY joins IISRP

Added: 4 Jan 2012

ERJ staff report (R&PN)

Houston, Texas -- Thermoplastic elastomer producer LCY Chemical Corp. has jo…

Yokohama makes changes to management team

Added: 4 Jan 2012

ERJ staff report (DS)

Tokyo -- Yokohama Rubber Company has adjusted its senior management team: the …

NR prices ease overnight

Added: 4 Jan 2012

ERJ staff report (DS)

London -- Rubber prices fell overnight. On Tokyo's Tocom Exchange, prices for …

Forbo sells unit to H.B. Fuller for $396M

Added: 4 Jan 2012

ERJ staff report (R&PN)

BAAR, Switzerland (Jan. 3, 2012)-Forbo Group, of Forbo Holding Ltd., is sell…

Yokohama to raise US truck tyre prices Feb. 1

Added: 4 Jan 2012

ERJ staff report (TB)

Fullerton, California -- Yokohama Tire Corp. will increase prices up to 8 perc…

APT distributing CR in Mid-East regions

Added: 4 Jan 2012

ERJ staff report (DS)

Dubai, UAE -- International trading company Advanced Polymer Trading (APT), is…

Not sure what this means, but it mentions rubber

Added: 4 Jan 2012

ERJ staff report (DS)

Cyberspace -- The jargon used in the software development community becomes ev…

Goodyear Dunlop announces new strategic appointments

Added: 3 Jan 2012

ERJ staff report (LMH)

Brussels - Goodyear Dunlop has announced two new senior appointments within i…

Zorge adds Injection moulding capacity in Hungary

Added: 3 Jan 2012

Katwijk, Netherlands -- Family-held Zorge Industrie BV has increased capacity for rubber injection …

India's Rubber consumption fell in September

Added: 3 Jan 2012

ERJ staff report (DS)

Kottayam, India -- India's consumption of rubber declined in September 2011, c…

German ministry finds PAH in 10 percent of tyres

Added: 3 Jan 2012

ERJ staff report (DS)

Mainz, Germany -- The environment agency of the Rheinland-Pfalz region of Germ…

CRIA forecasts difficult times ahead

Added: 3 Jan 2012

ERJ staff report (DS)

Beijing, China -- In his New Year message, Fan Rende, head of the China Rubber…

China's tyre makers nervous about 2012

Added: 3 Jan 2012

ERJ staff report (DS)

Beijing, China -- China's tyre makers are not optimistic about the coming year…

News from elsewhere on the web (03 Jan 2012)

Added: 3 Jan 2012

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London--The following links showed up in our daily search for news on the web. Readers mi…

Good tyre maintenance can save truckers up to €8,000 per vehicle per year - Volvo

Added: 3 Jan 2012

ERJ staff report (DS)

Hällered, Sweden --  A fuel economy test by Volvo Trucks shows that tyres mak…

Carlisle Companies completes PDT sale

Added: 3 Jan 2012

ERJ staff report (DS)

Charlotte, North Carolina -- Carlisle Companies Inc. has completed the sale of…