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Kraton sales jump in Q3
Added: 1 Nov 2011
ERJ staff report (DS)
Houston, Texas - Sales revenues at TPE maker Kraton jumped by 20 percent in t…

Liberty Tire exec to speak at rubber asphalt conference
Added: 1 Nov 2011
ERJ staff report (TB)
Austin, Texas -- Doug Carlson, vice president of asphalt products for Liberty …

Vianor to add stores in Ukraine
Added: 1 Nov 2011
ERJ staff report (DS)
Nokia, Finland - The Nokian Tyres-owned tyre retail chain Vianor, is discussin…

S. Korean tyre makers see little impact in trade deal
Added: 1 Nov 2011
ERJ staff report (R&PN)
Washington DC - Renewal of the US-South Korea free trade agreement will make…

BMW aims to reduce dependence on Germany as production base
Added: 1 Nov 2011
ERJ staff report (AN)
Munich, Germany - BMW Group wants to decrease its reliance on Germany as a car…

Volvo recalls 19,600 vehicles in US for incorrect spare tyre labels
Added: 1 Nov 2011
ERJ staff report (TB)
Washington DC -- Volvo Cars of North America L.L.C. is voluntarily recalling …

Hankook opens sales office in Poland
Added: 31 Oct 2011
Warsaw, Poland -- Hankook Tire has opened a Polish sales branch in Warsaw. Poland is the sixth larg…

NR prices recovered last week
Added: 31 Oct 2011
ERJ staff report (DS)
London -- Rubber prices recovered during the last week, but remained below $4 …

Nolato sales fall in first nine months
Added: 31 Oct 2011
ERJ staff report (DS)
Torekov, Sweden -- Nolato AB's sales during the first nine months of 2011 tota…

India's NR production up; SR output down in July
Added: 31 Oct 2011
ERJ staff report (DS)
Kottayam, India -- India produced 64,300 tonnes of natural rubber (NR) in July…

Tokai sees first-half sales fall on earthquake effects
Added: 31 Oct 2011
ERJ staff report (DS)
Tokyo -- Tokai Rubber Industries said sales and profits in the three months to…

News from elsewhere on the web (31 Oct 2011)
Added: 31 Oct 2011
(29 items)
London--The following links showed up in our daily search for news on the web. Readers mi…

Rubber Board organises training in rubber and latex products
Added: 31 Oct 2011
ERJ staff report (DS)
Kottayam, India -- India's Rubber Board is organising two new training session…

Bridgestone budgets $20M for Illinois OTR expansion
Added: 31 Oct 2011
ERJ staff report (TB)
Normal, Illinois -- Bridgestone Americas is budgeting $20 million for capital …

Goodyear taps Pillow as business solutions director
Added: 31 Oct 2011
ERJ staff report (TB)
Akron, Ohio -- Goodyear has named Mark Pillow director of business solutions f…

GM CEO: China car market to expand a 'healthy' 7-10% in 2011
Added: 31 Oct 2011
ERJ staff report (AN)
Shanghai, China (Reuters) - General Motors sees growth of between 7 percent t…

Supplier price probe widens
Added: 31 Oct 2011
By David Sedgwick, Automotive News staff report
Detroit, Michigan -- The price-fixing scandal that …

Tokai contributes to Thai flood relief
Added: 31 Oct 2011
ERJ staff report (DS)
Tokyo -- Tokai Rubber Group is to donate around yen 500 million (euro 4.5 mill…

Bridgestone donates to Thai flood relief appeal
Added: 31 Oct 2011
ERJ staff report (DS)
Tokyo -- Bridgestone Corp. said it will donate yen50 million (euro 452,000) to…

Conti publishes green brochure for China
Added: 31 Oct 2011
ERJ staff report (DS)
Hannover, Germany -- ContiTech has published a brochure in English and Chinese…