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London conference on elastomeric modelling opens next week
Added: 4 Oct 2010
ERJ staff report (DS)
London -- There are only 12 days left until the conference on Modelling of Ela…

News from elsewhere on the web (04 Oct 2010)
Added: 4 Oct 2010
(21 items)
London--The following links showed up in our daily search for news on the web. Readers mi…

Sinopec Beijing Yanshan studied
Added: 4 Oct 2010
ERJ staff report (DS)
Paris -- Global Data has published a report titled, Sinopec Beijing Yanshan Pe…

US EPA publishes IRIS report on Chloroprene
Added: 4 Oct 2010
ERJ staff report (DS)
Washington, DC -- The US-based Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS) has p…

Ecuador's NR business studied
Added: 4 Oct 2010
ERJ staff report (DS)
Dublin, Ireland -- ICON Group International has published a new report titled,…

RMA marks 20 years of scrap tyre abatement, recycling
Added: 4 Oct 2010
ERJ staff report (TB)
Washington DC -- Twenty years ago, the Rubber Manufacturers Association founde…

EChA holds stakeholder day today
Added: 4 Oct 2010
ERJ staff report (DS)
Helsinki, Finland -- Experts from the chemical industry and stakeholders from …

This week is latex allergy awareness week
Added: 4 Oct 2010
ERJ staff report (DS)
Milwaukee, Wisconsin -- The American Latex Allergy Association (ALAA) has decl…

Michelin passes 1 million mark for X One truck tyres
Added: 4 Oct 2010
By Bruce Davis, ERJ staff (TB)
Greenville, South Carolina -- Michelin North America Inc. passed a p…

Biesterfeld moves into rubber with acquisition of SMPC
Added: 1 Oct 2010
ERJ staff report (DS)
Chérisy, France -- Biesterfeld Plastic GmbH has acquired the business opera…

Tyrexpo India forms alliance with Capexil
Added: 1 Oct 2010
ERJ staff report (DS)
Chennai, India -- ECI, Organisers of Tyrexpo India, scheduled for Chennai Trad…

MarconiGomma pre-trial hearing postponed
Added: 1 Oct 2010
ERJ staff report (DS)
Bologna - According to local newspaper reports, the pre-trial hearing of the d…

Solar powered Methane cracker to make carbon black
Added: 1 Oct 2010
ERJ staff report (TB)
Qatar - Germany's Fraunhofer Institute is working with the Qatar Science and T…

Cabot breaks ground on fumed silica plant in China
Added: 1 Oct 2010
ERJ staff report (DS)
Jiangxi, China -- Cabot Corp. and China National Bluestar (Group) Corp. have b…

News from elsewhere on the web (01 Oct 2010)
Added: 1 Oct 2010
(17 items)
London--The following links showed up in our daily search for news on the web. Readers mi…

Apollo considering the rubber plantation business
Added: 1 Oct 2010
ERJ staff report (DS)
Kolkata, India -- Speaking on the sidelines of the opening of a new tyre store…

Apollo Tyres launches Super Zone retail concept
Added: 1 Oct 2010
ERJ staff report (DS)
Kolkata -- Apollo Tyres has extended its Apollo Zone retailing concept with th…

Hankook to hike passenger, truck tyre prices in US
Added: 1 Oct 2010
ERJ staff report (TB)
Wayne, New Jersey -- Hankook Tire America Corp. is raising prices in the US by…

Airboss America re-files certificates
Added: 1 Oct 2010
ERJ staff report (DS)
Newmarket Ontario - Airboss of America Corp. has re-filed some certificates wi…

Onex completes acquisition of Tomkins
Added: 30 Sep 2010
ERJ staff report (DS)
Toronto, Canada -- Onex Corp. and Canada Pension Plan Investment Boardsaid the…