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Nokian scales back sales, earnings forecast
Added: 15 Dec 2008
ERJ staff report (TB)
Tire Business staff report©
Nokia, Finland -- Nokian Tyres PLC is cautioning sh…
Sale of SmarTire Systems is now final
Added: 15 Dec 2008
ERJ staff report (TB)
Richmond, British Columbia (Dec. 12, 2008) - Germany's Knorr-Bremse Group has …
Prachaya Jumpasut launches consultancy business
Added: 15 Dec 2008
ERJ staff report (DS)
London -- A new company led by former chief economist at the IRSG offers consu…
Dow to close Seadrift EPDM plant
Added: 12 Dec 2008
ERJ staff report (TB)
Midland, Michigan -- The plant closings planned for 2009 by Dow Chemical Co. w…
News from elsewhere on the web (12 December 2008)
Added: 12 Dec 2008
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London--The following links showed up in our daily search for news on the web. Readers mi…
Cabot to cut production up to 40 percent in face of 'extended slowdown'
Added: 12 Dec 2008
ERJ staff report (DS)
Boston, Massachusetts -- Cabot Corp intends heavily to cut output of its mater…
Former Bridgestone exec pleads guilty in Marine Hose case
Added: 12 Dec 2008
ERJ staff report (DS)
Washington, DC -- Yet another scalp has fallen to the Marine Hose price fixing…
Tokai opens AVS plant in Kyushu
Added: 12 Dec 2008
ERJ staff report (DS)
Bungotakada City, Oita Prefecture, Japan -- Tokai Rubber Industrieshas opened …
GM resists making early payments to US suppliers
Added: 12 Dec 2008
By Robert Sherefkin (AN)
Automotive News
Detroit, Michigan -- General Motors Corp. is resisting press…
Flexsys drops South Korean patent infringement lawsuit against Kumho
Added: 12 Dec 2008
ERJ staff report (TB)
Seoul, Korea -- Flexsys Americas LP has dropped an appeal of a patent infringe…
Bridgestone opens SBR plant in China
Added: 12 Dec 2008
ERJ staff report (DS)
Tokyo -- Bridgestone (Huizhou) Synthetic Rubber Co., Ltd. (“BSRCâ€), a who…
Conti extends chairman's contract 5 years
Added: 12 Dec 2008
ERJ staff report (TB)
Hannover, Germany -- Continental AG's Supervisory Board has extended the contr…
Conti inititates cost-cutting measures
Added: 12 Dec 2008
ERJ staff report (TB)
Tire Business staff report©
Hannover, Germany -- Seeking to reduce the impact o…
US car sales could hit 26-year low next year
Added: 12 Dec 2008
By Arlena Sawyers, Crain News Service
Detroit, Michigan -- Sales of new cars and trucks in the US ar…
Goodyear to take production break at Fayetteville plant
Added: 12 Dec 2008
ERJ staff report (TB)
Akron, Ohio -- Goodyear will halt production at its Fayetteville, North Caroli…
Cooper, USW reach tentative agreement at Texarkana plant
Added: 12 Dec 2008
ERJ staff report (TB)
Findlay, Ohio -- Cooper Tire & Rubber Co. has reached a tentative agreement w…
Pirelli named China's tyre manufacturer of the year
Added: 12 Dec 2008
ERJ staff report (TB)
Beijing, China -- Pirelli Tyre SpA received the Best Tyre Manufacturer of the …
Marangoni puts red tyres on Alfa M430
Added: 9 Dec 2008
ERJ staff report (DS)
Rovereto, italy -- Marangoni showed an all-red tyre on its stand at the Essen …
Henniges Automotive falls into receivership
Added: 9 Dec 2008
ERJ staff report (DS)
Grefrath, Germany -- Henniges Automotive Grefrath, its associated technical ce…
Singapore company sets up tyre retail portal
Added: 9 Dec 2008
ERJ staff report (DS)
Singapore -- A new company is setting up what it claims to be, "Asia's first a…
