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Rubber Price Monitor: Signs of recovery
Added: 22 May 2020
Prices have been depressed in the past few months weighed down by Covid-19 pandemic

ERJ Rubber Processor Shares
Added: 22 May 2020
Most companies, particularly rubber gloves makers, registered significant gains in stock values

UK lowers tire import duties under new scheme
Added: 21 May 2020
New tariffs will come to effect in January 2021 when EU regulations no longer apply in the UK

UK, US associations call for removal of chemical tariffs
Added: 21 May 2020
Industry trade between the two countries totalled €4.8 billion in 2019

Michelin on track with CO2 emissions targets
Added: 21 May 2020
Approval “first step” towards achieving net-zero emissions across all sites by 2050

ERJ Live: Tire manufacture in the 'new normal'
Added: 21 May 2020
ERJ editor Patrick Raleigh and Dominique Scheider of Rockwell will discuss challenges and opportuni…

Bridgestone announces new temporary production halts in Japan
Added: 20 May 2020
Suspensions introduced in response “market situation and decline in the demand”

Nokian claims emissions-reduction target
Added: 20 May 2020
Finnish tire maker says reduced greenhouse gas emissions by 44% over past six years

Toyo Tire reports 32% decline in operating income
Added: 20 May 2020
Japanese tire & rubber company links decline to 'sharp downturn' in consumer spending

Semperit increases profitability despite lower revenue
Added: 20 May 2020
Medical sector gains momentum in Q1 amid restructuring, Covid pandemic

Apollo sees dent in full year sales, profits
Added: 20 May 2020
Tire maker reports gains in Indian replacement market in 'most product categories'

Safic-Alcan extends Tronox TiO2 distribution deal
Added: 20 May 2020
New distribution deal covers entire range of Tronox TiO2 pigments

Sumitomo Rubber's Q1 profits drop 54% on lower sales volume
Added: 20 May 2020
Company withdraws 2020 results forecast and will reissue guidance at a later date

Halcyon Agri, WWF to set up rubber trust fund
Added: 19 May 2020
GPSNR members supported by the Conservation Finance Alliance (CFA) Incubator grant

AirBoss sees lower profit for first quarter
Added: 19 May 2020
Company anticipates further Covid impact on its results as customers suspended operations in late M…

US trade commission to rule on import duty petition by end of June
Added: 19 May 2020
Move targets passenger car and light truck tires from Thailand, South Korea, Vietnam and Taiwan
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Slow demand weighs on Hankook sales, profits
Added: 19 May 2020
South Korean group reports growth in sales of high-inch tires in major markets

EU new car sales fall 76% in April
Added: 19 May 2020
Market registers sharpest monthly decline in demand since records began

German rubber industry poised for double-digit decline
Added: 18 May 2020
WDK had previously predicted 'zero growth' for the industry in 2020

Smithers: Tire market poised for growth
Added: 18 May 2020
Prediction takes into account disruptions caused by the ongoing coronavirus pandemic