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Goodyear to report Q3 results tomorrow
Added: 26 Oct 2005
Akron, Ohio -- The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company will report third quarter 2005 financial results …
News from elsewhere on the web 26/10
Added: 26 Oct 2005
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GITI Tire setting up US unit to handle Chinese-made products
Added: 26 Oct 2005
City of Industry, California -- Singapore-controlled GITI Tire, China´s largest independent tyre m…
Performance Fibers to expand capacity at converting plants
Added: 26 Oct 2005
Colonial Heights, Virginia -- Performance Fibers Holdings Inc. will increase capacity and enhance p…
Yokohama optimistic about first half results
Added: 26 Oct 2005
Tokyo -- Yokohama Rubber Co. Ltd. is revising upward its earnings and sales forecast for the half-y…
UK Company seeks manufacturer to make private-brand 4x4 tyres
Added: 26 Oct 2005
Leek, UK -- Bronco 4x4 Ltd has developed its own range of tread designs for retreaded tyres for SUV…
Mitsui Chemicals to launch liquid EPDM
Added: 25 Oct 2005
Tokyo -- Mitsui Chemicals, Inc. intends to introduce a liquid EPDM, to complement its existing rang…
Mitsui Chemicals plans TPO compounding unit in Germany
Added: 25 Oct 2005
Tokyo -- Mitsui Chemicals Inc. has agreed with German polymer compounder Polymer-Chemie, to establ…
News from elsewhere on the web 25/10
Added: 25 Oct 2005
London--The following links showed up in our daily search for news on the web. Readers might be int…
Bridgestone officially opens steel cord plant in China
Added: 25 Oct 2005
Shenyang, China -- Bridgestone Corp. has announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary in China Bridge…
Trelleborg wins €10 million order for deep water oil hose systems
Added: 25 Oct 2005
Trelleborg, Sweden -- The Trelleborg Group has secured its first major order for a newly-developed …
Trelleborg makes US acquisition in aerospace seals
Added: 25 Oct 2005
Stuttgart, Germany -- Trelleborg has signed an agreement to acquire the operations of Chase-Walton …
Michelin's Q3 results ahead of forecasts; OTR tyres still in shortage
Added: 25 Oct 2005
Paris -- Michelin reported third quarter sales of Euro 3890 million, up 4.5 percent from the same p…
Michelin adds photovoltaic generator in Bamberg
Added: 25 Oct 2005
Bamberg, Germany -- On October 7, the Bavarian Minister for the Environment, Werner Schnappauf, ina…
Nizhnekamskshina adds silica tread technology
Added: 25 Oct 2005
Nottingham, UK -- Chronos Richardson has won an order worth around Euro 3 million to set up silica-…
NHTSA looks into run-flat wear complaints
Added: 25 Oct 2005
Washington, DC -- The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) is looking into compla…
Tecnoplan files for court protection under German bankruptcy laws
Added: 25 Oct 2005
Hanau, Germany -- Tecnoplan GmbH, formally the Dunloplan Manufacturing Plant in Hanau Germany, has …
Author seeks memories of UK latex industry
Added: 24 Oct 2005
London -- UK author, Richard Scott is seeking people who remember the UK latex industry. He writes,…
Conti finds that Romanian graduates are more motivated than German ones
Added: 24 Oct 2005
Bucharest, Romania -- Romanian university graduates are self-motivated and optimistic about the fu…
Yokohama develops intelligent tyre sensor system
Added: 24 Oct 2005
Tokyo -- Yokohama Rubber has developed a tyre monitoring system that uses a sensor mounted directly…
