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Bridgestone to show airless concept tyre at Tokyo Motor Show

Added: 30 Nov 2011

Tokyo - Tokyo's 42nd Motor Show opens today and Bridgestone is showing an airless concept tyre. The…

MHI to move tyre, rubber machinery manufacture out of Japan

Added: 30 Nov 2011

Tokyo -- Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI), will establish a new subsidiary to handle the ind…

News from elsewhere on the web (30 Nov 2011)

Added: 30 Nov 2011

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

Japanese car production up 20% on October 2010

Added: 30 Nov 2011

Tokyo -- Japan's production of cars in October 2011 was substantially ahead of the same month in 20…

Ford joins UK tyre lobby group

Added: 30 Nov 2011

London -- Ford of Britain has joined UK tyre lobby group,  TyreSafe. Through its membership, Ford o…

Gummivogt marks 50 years of rubber

Added: 30 Nov 2011

Arnsberg, Germany -- A. Vogt GmbH & Co. KG  (Gummivogt) has been making rubber products for over 50…

NR Prices ease slightly overnight

Added: 30 Nov 2011

ERJ staff report (DS)

London -- Rubber prices fell slightly overnight. On Tokyo's

Tocom Exchange, pri…

Construction under way on Conti's Russian plant

Added: 30 Nov 2011

Kaluga, Russia -- Continental A.G. laid the cornerstone on its $320 million car and light truck tyr…

Titan, Goodyear face Nov. 30 deadline for Euro farm tyre deal

Added: 30 Nov 2011

Akron, Ohio -- Titan International Inc.'s pending acquisition of Goodyear's European farm tyre busi…

EuroZone crisis leads to reduced NR output - ANRPC

Added: 29 Nov 2011

ERJ staff report (DS)

Kuala Lumpur - The latest ANRPC report on Natural Rubber takes the sub-title, …

News from elsewhere on the web (29 Nov 2011)

Added: 29 Nov 2011

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

Russian authorities grant permission for Sibur to take control of Matador - Omskshina

Added: 29 Nov 2011

ERJ staff report (DS)

Moscow - Sibur - Russian Tyres has said that Russia's ownership authorities ha…

3-D printed rubber robot offers locomotion

Added: 29 Nov 2011

ERJ staff report (DS)

Boston, Massachusetts - Researchers at Harvard University have

developed a soft…

NR prices see little change overnight

Added: 29 Nov 2011

ERJ staff report (DS)

London -- Rubber prices remained unchanged overnight. On Tokyo's

Tocom Exchange…

Delticom UK pushes Winter tyres

Added: 29 Nov 2011

ERJ staff report (DS)

London - While most UK motorists think it is important to stay

mobile in bad we…

Cooper Tire locks out union at Findlay plant

Added: 29 Nov 2011

ERJ staff report (DS)

Findlay, Ohio - Cooper Tire & Rubber Co has communicated an

immediate lockout o…

Unionised Cooper workers vote down tentative labour pact

Added: 29 Nov 2011

ERJ staff report (TB)

Findlay, Ohio -- Union workers at Cooper Tire & Rubber Co.'s

Findlay manufactur…

Hangzhou Zhongce shares sold to British Virgin Islands firm

Added: 29 Nov 2011

ERJ staff report (TB)

Hong Kong -- China Enterprises Ltd. has completed the sale of its

26-percent sh…

China's market for luxury goods dominated by under-30s

Added: 29 Nov 2011

ERJ staff report (DS)

Beijing - China's market for luxury goods is dominated by wealthy

individuals b…

ETRMA publishes statistical report

Added: 28 Nov 2011

ERJ staff report (DS)

Brussels -- The European Tyre & Rubber Manufacturers' Association has publishe…