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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 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

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

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…

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…

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
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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

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

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