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India fixes price spectrum for rubber aid, declares 2004 a boom year
Added: 8 Apr 2005
New Delhi, India--The Indian Government has anounced the price limits for rubber and other commodit…
Edouard Michelin appointed to Nokia board
Added: 8 Apr 2005
Helsinki, Finland--Nokia Corp., the makers of mobile telephones, has appointed Edouard Michelin to …
US Operating Room Nurses think they should use more gloves
Added: 8 Apr 2005
New Orleans--The US Association of Operating Room Nurses says their members believe they should be …
NHTSA publishes final rule on TPMS; tyre indistry criticises 25% limit
Added: 8 Apr 2005
Washington DC--Representatives of the tyre industry blasted as inadequate the National Highway Traf…
Cooper, USWA reach tentative agreement at Arkansas site
Added: 8 Apr 2005
Texarkana, Arkansas --Negotiators for Cooper Tire & Rubber Co. and the United Steelworkers union ha…
Hercules plans to sell custom mix business to Biltrite Industries
Added: 8 Apr 2005
FIindlay, Ohio --Hercules Tire & Rubber Co. has signed a letter of intent to sell its custom mixed …
Lanxess raises BR prices
Added: 7 Apr 2005
Pittsburgh-- Lanxess AG has announced a price increase of 100 euros per metric tonne for all polybu…
Trelleborg forms tyre sales JV in Mid-east
Added: 7 Apr 2005
Trelleborg, Sweden--Trelleborg Wheel Systems, part of the Trelleborg Group, has signed a joint-vent…
New organisation for Imerys in Asia Pacific region
Added: 7 Apr 2005
Singapore--In order to accelerate the growth of its specialty minerals business, and build on the g…
Conti wins €40 million loan for Brazilian factory
Added: 7 Apr 2005
Brussels--The European Investment Bank has announced it is lending €40 million to Continental do …
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Added: 7 Apr 2005
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Aroq publishes study of tyre pressure monitoring systems
Added: 7 Apr 2005
London--Automotive analyst, Aroq has published a study into the future market for tyre pressure mon…
Conti wins Toyota's 'diversity' award for 2nd year
Added: 7 Apr 2005
AUburn Hills Michigan--For the second year in a row Continental Automotive Systems has won a Toyota…
Kraton adding 10 000 tonnes of SEBS/SEPS capacity
Added: 7 Apr 2005
By Liz White, ERJ staff
Houston, Texas-Kraton Polymers is increasing its capacity for Kraton G therm…
US to adopt NHTSA advice on tyre pressure warning systems
Added: 7 Apr 2005
Washington DC--Press reports suggest that the US Government is to adopt the NHTSA final rule on tyr…
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Added: 6 Apr 2005
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British Vita buys Italian TPE compounder
Added: 6 Apr 2005
LONDON (April 5)--British Vita P.L.C. has acquired the thermoplastic elastomers business of Italy's…
Solutia to consolidate nylon fiber output at S.C. plant
Added: 6 Apr 2005
ST. LOUIS (April 5)--Solutia Inc. is concentrating U.S. production of nylon industrial fibers, used…
Michelin wins in product defect lawsuit
Added: 6 Apr 2005
Los Angeles, California--A Michelin LTX tyre on a church van involved in a rollover crash contained…
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Added: 5 Apr 2005
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