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Yokohama, Bridgestone to hike truck tire prices in US 

Yokohama Rubber posts 'record' results for first three quarters

Added: 19 Nov 2024

Business profit for the nine-month period grew 70% to over €500 million

Avon reports higher sales, profits in first half

Avon delivers significant growth as efficiency programme progresses

Added: 19 Nov 2024

UK manufacturer says all factories undergoing ‘continuous improvement’ programmes to enhance effici…

US compounder Geon adds TPE capacity in Mexico

Added: 19 Nov 2024

Expansion builds on technology obtained from acquisition of Polymax TPE in December last year

Emerald Performance Materials sells additives businesses

PCBL mulls greenfield sites under 1000ktpa carbon-black plan

Added: 18 Nov 2024

Carbon black sales contributes to 45% year-on-year increase in consolidated revenue of €243m

Micheldever, Kumho end distribution partnership in UK 

Kumho expanding tire production at Vietnam plant by 36%

Added: 18 Nov 2024

Korean tire maker to start construction work on $300-million phase III project in early 2025

Kemya, Continental Carbon start Saudi carbon black plant

Nouryon doubles rubber chemicals production in China

Added: 18 Nov 2024

Dutch-based supplier hiking capacity for cross-linking peroxides at production site in China

Apollo sees June recovery in Indian replacement tire market 

Apollo profits hit by ‘unprecedented’ raw materials costs

Added: 18 Nov 2024

European operations report revenue growth but tire maker faced weak OE demand in Indian market

ERJ Business Briefing: November-December

Added: 18 Nov 2024

Hankook completes Hanon deal... VMI 'strong' Q3... Sumitomo Riko upgrade... Freudenberg-NOK acquisi…

Freudenberg Medical expands in China

IOM3 to discuss elastomers in biomedical devices

Added: 18 Nov 2024

Rubber group's afternoon technical discussion meeting will provide insights into the future of elas…

Update: Tariff-hit Chinese tire makers to “intensify” EU trade

European Parliament agrees to extend EUDR deadline, other amendments

Added: 15 Nov 2024

Votes through one-year postponement but also proposals of concern to tire and natural rubber suppli…

Pirelli to cut costs, ‘contain' investment under new plan 

Tire industry contributed €44bn to European Union GDP

Added: 15 Nov 2024

Industry supported almost half a million jobs across the EU last year, report commissioned by ETRMA…

Cooper Standard downgrades outlook on automotive production trends

Added: 15 Nov 2024

US-based automotive supplier narrows loss during the first nine months but earnings dip

Rubber & tire industry in numbers

Added: 15 Nov 2024

Review of the key figures and data to emerge this week from leading players in the global industries

Bridgestone sales up, operating income down in 2017

Bridgestone signals further restructuring in Brazil

Added: 15 Nov 2024

Business continues to face ‘deficit’ in Brazil “due to inability to adapt to structural changes 

Kemya, Continental Carbon start Saudi carbon black plant

Denka impacted by higher costs, weak chloroprene rubber demand

Added: 15 Nov 2024

Business division ‘falls short of expectations’ as operating loss nearly doubles

NR prices recover in August, deficit continues   

Rubber industry urges European Parliament to retain 'substance of EUDR'

Added: 14 Nov 2024

ETRMA, GPSNR say proposed amendments could cause more uncertainty regarding the content of the regu…

Update: Yokohama consolidating off-highway tire operations

Yokohama Rubber to close off-road tire plant in Israel

Added: 14 Nov 2024

Japanese group cites cost, logistics challenges in decision to close facility in Hadera

DL Chemical opens ‘world’s largest’ polyisoprene latex plant in Singapore

Added: 14 Nov 2024

Cariflex facility in Jurong Island to cater for synthetic rubber surgical gloves, medical devices

Toyo raises full-year outlook amid ‘record high’ third-quarter results

Added: 14 Nov 2024

Japanese tire & rubber group saw earnings grow over 50% for three months to end of September

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German rubber industry reports 5.3% decline in nine-month sales

Added: 14 Nov 2024

WDK sounds the alarm over ‘loss of global competitiveness’ within Germany's rubber manufacturing se…