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Comerio Ercole in link-up for graphene-enhanced tires
Added: 29 Jan 2020
Partners to use Comerio Ercole’s new R&D laboratory's mixing and calendering machinery

Semperit restructuring industrial products business
Added: 29 Jan 2020
Reorganisation programme will see the creation of Semperseal segment

Semperit seeking to sell off medical unit
Added: 28 Jan 2020
Move described by Austrian group as “biggest strategic decision” in recent decades

Cooper acquires 100% control of Mexico joint venture tire factory
Added: 27 Jan 2020
Deal part of strategic plan to optimise global manufacturing footprint with "cost-competitive produ…

Yiyang adds to internal mixer sales in Europe
Added: 27 Jan 2020
Chinese tire & rubber machinery maker makes sixth sale to the European market

Enterprise begins service at isobutane dehydrogenation plant
Added: 27 Jan 2020
Plant to produce 450ktpa of isobutylene, using low-cost natural gas liquids as feedstock

Iranian tire maker starts up truck tire plant
Added: 27 Jan 2020
Artawheel facility to produce 360,000 units/year of truck & bus radials at full capacity
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Michelin reaches agreement over French plant closure
Added: 27 Jan 2020
Employees to be supported by measures such as 'inplacement, outplacement and early retirement offer…

DRI Rubber gains US patent for livestock rubber mat system
Added: 27 Jan 2020
All-rubber fastener is claimed to be more durable while being animal-friendly

Technology: Micromeritics delivers optimised carbon black testing tool
Added: 27 Jan 2020
Dynamic void colume analyser developed for “safe, clean analysis” in accordance with revised ASTM s…

BKT to expand manufacturing footprint in India
Added: 27 Jan 2020
Expansion includes phase 2 of carbon black facility at Bhuj and new production plant in Waluj
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HF TireTech to present splice-measuring device at TTE
Added: 24 Jan 2020
Technology claimed to set "new benchmarks" in precise splice measuring, quality control & traceabil…

Pirelli alerts shareholders to ChemChina/Sinochem restructuring
Added: 24 Jan 2020
Notification comes as Sinochem and ChemChina plan to merge agricultural sector holdings into Sinoch…

Rubber shares tracker: Ups & downs
Added: 24 Jan 2020
While Avon Rubber and Gates Corp. showed price improvements, Daetwyler registered a 5% decline

Hutchinson opens China innovation centre
Added: 24 Jan 2020
French components supplier says China presents a "highly favourable" industrial ecosystem
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Bunting expands UK manufacturing site
Added: 23 Jan 2020
Among others, company supplies metal separators to tire recycling industry

Sumitomo claims breakthrough in tire-rubber analysis
Added: 23 Jan 2020
New process, developed jointly with Ibaraki University, enables observation of cross-linked areas i…

Sensata to close TPMS manufacturing plant in Northern Ireland
Added: 23 Jan 2020
“We are facing a perfect storm of European market conditions,” Yann Etienvre, senior vice president…

Kraiburg TPE targets e-mobility market
Added: 22 Jan 2020
German compounder says its materials more frequently used for automotive applications

ERJ Tire & Rubber Machinery Survey 2020
Added: 22 Jan 2020
ERJ has launched its annual Tire & Rubber Machinery Survey, submission deadline 19 Feb