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Outside Track: Top trends impacting the industrial workforce

Added: 3 May 2024

ERJ's Outside Track reports cover news, views & developments from across the wider process and manu…

Conti rubber group posts decline in Q1 sales, profits

Tire business trends: More challenging conditions ahead

Added: 22 Apr 2024

HSBC Global Research forecasts raw materials costs to become a significant headwind for tire makers…

Automotive rubber: Innovation drivers

Added: 22 Apr 2024

Rubber manufacturers to the fore in enabling the automotive industry to enhance the safety, perform…

Final Call: ERJ Custom Compounding Survey 2020

Supplier shake-up in rubber additives sector

Added: 22 Apr 2024

Major players respond to developments in dynamic global market for rubber fillers, chemicals and ad…

Sumitomo AI-based technology for extended performance

Tire Tech Preview - Industry leaders to show the way forward

Added: 18 Mar 2024

ERJ selection of top advances in the fields of technology, machinery and materials from leading exh…

Compounders robust despite looming impact of Covid crisis

Dips and turns in store for synthetic rubber markets

Added: 4 Feb 2024

Global SR market finds itself at a crossroads as we journey into 2024, writes Karan Chechi, founder…

Sailun starts up revamped  tire production plant in China

Tire plant investment drive continues into 2024

Added: 3 Feb 2024

New projects in response to import tariffs and strategies to locate production closer to customers

Tire & rubber majors track progress towards meeting net zero

Added: 2 Feb 2024

Analysis shows variation in progress being made by cross-section of major players in delivering amb…

Elastomers for Sustainability - New Top 10 rankings

Added: 18 Dec 2023

The latest staging of ERJ programme to identify material science-based projects contributing most t…

Technology report: Moulding the future

Added: 14 Dec 2023

Energy-efficiency, part-complexity and requirements around materials sustainability are among the k…

Global Tire Report - A solid platform

Added: 5 Dec 2023

Leading players firming up positions in the annual global tire rankings amid changing market dynami…

Guanlian sets the pace for China’s rubber industry

Added: 26 Oct 2023

ERJ X Guanlian Special Feature: China's biggest rubber compounder offers a full spectrum of solutio…

European tire sector still leads the way

Added: 10 Oct 2023

Amid mounting challenges, major players in the European tire industry delivered high sales and earn…

Compounding survey: Leading players chart market highs and lows - DRAFT

European Custom Compounding Survey 2023

Added: 31 Jul 2023

Strong sales growth but caution over impact of current pressures on costs, supply-chain and markets

Global Top 50 Rubber Product Manufacturers 2023

Added: 31 Jul 2023

New challenges ahead for the world’s largest non-tire rubber product makers

Chinese tire makers advance overseas investment plans

Added: 30 Jul 2023

Amid uncertain domestic prospects, Chinese tire makers are eyeing new overseas expansion projects

Bridgestone, Microsoft develop tire-damage monitoring system 

North America tire & rubber product sector shake-up

Added: 29 Jul 2023

Jolt to rankings was provided, however, by Goodyear’s 2021 acquisition of Cooper Tire & Rubber Co.

ERJ Machinery Survey 2023 - Powering through

Added: 31 May 2023

Market pressures keep a lid on growth but business fundamentals remain strong for global manufactur…

Tire industry now a pacesetter in AI arena

Added: 31 May 2023

Skills shortages after Covid crisis accelerate investment in ‘digital algorithmic’ capabilities

Elastomers for Sustainability - New Top 10 rankings

Added: 31 May 2023

The latest staging of ERJ’s programme to identify materials science-based projects contributing mos…