Latest News
Testing for the grippiest climbing shoes
Added: 16 Dec 2008
ERJ staff report (DS)
CERN, Geneva -- Steven Won, a physicist at CERN and an avid climber has been t…
Michelin's Italian cutbacks to cost €80 million
Added: 16 Dec 2008
ERJ staff report (DS)
Paris -- Michelin has said its restructuring efforts in Italy will cost about …
Mitsubishi to commercialise process for making butadiene from butene
Added: 16 Dec 2008
ERJ staff report (DS)
Tokyo -- Mitsubishi Chemical Corp. has developed a technology to manufacture b…
Tigar opens state of the art rubber footwear plant
Added: 15 Dec 2008
ERJ staff report (DS)
Pirot, Serbia -- The Tigar Corporation has opened a new rubber boot and footwe…
Rubber producers cut output with new AETS
Added: 15 Dec 2008
ERJ staff report (RD)
Bogor, Indonesia - The 14th International Tripartite Rubber Council (ITRC) Me…
Teijin announces 'green' polyester tyre cords
Added: 15 Dec 2008
ERJ staff report (DS)
Tokyo -- Teijin Fibers has developed a recycled polyester material which, it s…
Algol to cease distribution of PolymerLatex products
Added: 15 Dec 2008
ERJ staff report (DS)
marl, Germany -- PolymerLatex has said it is ending its relationship with Algo…
News from elsewhere on the web (15 December 2008)
Added: 15 Dec 2008
(21 items)
London--The following links showed up in our daily search for news on the web. Readers mi…
Bridgestone to double conveyor belt capacity in Yokohama
Added: 15 Dec 2008
ERJ staff report (DS)
Tokyo -- Bridgestone Corp. is to double production capacity of steel-reinforce…
Goodyear makes finance appointments
Added: 15 Dec 2008
ERJ staff report (TB)
Akron, Ohio -- Goodyear has announced several leadership changes in its HQ-ba…
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
(21 items)
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…
