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Linglong unveils €1bn tire plant project in Brazil

Added: 28 Apr 2025

Ponta Grossa facility to have production capacity of 14.7 million high-performance radial tires

Hexpol announces structural changes amid lower first quarter earnings

Added: 28 Apr 2025

Swedish group reports lower profits but 'unaffected' by tariffs in first quarter

Apollo Vredestein expanding farm tire production in Europe

Apollo to end tire production at Dutch plant

Added: 28 Apr 2025

Enschede unit closing due to “macro-economic disruptions, steep increases in costs, decline in dema…

Jinyu completes Vietnam tire project

Added: 28 Apr 2025

Chinese tire maker returns to passenger car tire market with capacity to produce 10m units/year

UK parliament to debate export of used tires to India

Added: 28 Apr 2025

Tyre Recovery Association welcomes decision to further scrutinise waste tire sector

AirBoss secures two defence contracts for 'overboots', masks

Added: 28 Apr 2025

Worth up to $15.6m, contracts are from the Swiss defence forces and a separate partner nation

ETRMA reports “encouraging” signs in European tire markets

Michelin posts dip in first quarter sales on lower volumes

Added: 25 Apr 2025

French group links decline to lower OE demand across main market segments

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Trelleborg earnings up 8% on “solid" quarterly performance

Added: 25 Apr 2025

But "weakening of established trade relations is creating greater uncertainty than we have seen for…

Goodyear eyes 'phased restart' of some commercial tire production

US tariffs to have 'limited impact' on global tire industry

Added: 25 Apr 2025

Industry analyst: Any relocation of production is going to take years to develop...

Rubber & tire industry in numbers

Added: 25 Apr 2025

Review of the key figures and data to emerge over the last seven days from leading players worldwide

ETRMA provides input on REACH regulation simplification

Added: 25 Apr 2025

Calls for “regulatory coherence, proportionality, and predictability to support industrial competit…

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IISRP announces president-international for 2025-26

Added: 25 Apr 2025

Douglas Wilson of LYC Elastomers replaces Zhuang Yi of Sinopec as leader of global synthetic rubber…

ERJ Business Briefing

Added: 24 Apr 2025

Yokohama price rise... HEVs top EU car choice... Enviro presentations... Kumho European tire plant.…

Kumho considering Poland, Serbia, Portugal for European tire factory

Added: 24 Apr 2025

South Korean company to make decision on location after review of geopolitical, trade factors

ZC Rubber ‘tracking impact’ of US trade tariffs

Added: 24 Apr 2025

“Not in a position to comment” on recently launched project to establish tire plant in Mexico

Hutchinson develops 'recycled-content' elastomer seals for European automotive major

Added: 24 Apr 2025

Seals in industrial production for use in vehicles to be produced in 2026 

Klean Industries taps Yokogawa AI, automation to enhance resource recovery

Added: 24 Apr 2025

Collaboration aimed at enhancing Klean’s pyrolysis and gasification systems

Pirelli progresses Saudi tire plant project

Added: 23 Apr 2025

Bidders took part in tendering process for construction of €480m tire manufacturing facility

Answer: The ‘connection’ has its origins at an exhibition in Lyon, France in 1894. There, Edouard Michelin pointed out to his brother Andre that a stack of tires on the company’s stand looked a bit like a person. In 1898, the concept was brought to poster artist Marius Rossillon, who drew a ‘tire-man’ – tires were then light in colour – onto a sample artwork for a brewery carrying the words ‘Nunc est Bibendum’ (now is the time to drink). The slogan, from an ode by Roman poet Horace, stayed with the new poster and soon after gave rise to the Michelin man’s famous name.

Michelin wary of “complex, potentially misleading” mass-balance claims

Added: 23 Apr 2025

Emphasis on stating actual sustainable tire-material content, clarity for end consumers

Analysis: US probes dumping by ESBR suppliers

Chinese group unveils 120ktpa synthetic rubber project to support tire industry

Added: 23 Apr 2025

Zhejiang Jiahua Energy Chemical to invest €150m in production facility in eastern China