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Feature: Meeting tough new requirements on elastomers in oilfield applications - DRAFT
Added: 20 Sep 2016
Article published in the September/October edition of European Rubber Journal magazine
Collaboration…

Opinion: Showing 4-sight - DRAFT
Added: 20 Sep 2016
Article published in the September/October edition of European Rubber Journal magazine
The latest is…

K Show preview: How will Industry 4.0 be received? DRAFT
Added: 20 Sep 2016
Article published in the September/October edition of European Rubber Journal magazine
Industry 4.0 …

Analysis: Trelleborg’s AVS shake-up
Added: 20 Sep 2016
Article published in the September/October edition of European Rubber Journal magazine
Sweden: Trell…

Conti to display dandelion rubber-based truck tires
Added: 20 Sep 2016
Hanover, Germany – Continental AG is exhibiting truck and bus tires and components made with rubber…

Chinese machinery maker to build new plant
Added: 20 Sep 2016
Qingdao, China – Jiangxing Taida Mechanical is to break ground on a new plant with 1,000 unit annua…

European tire market to cross €44b by 2021
Added: 20 Sep 2016
New York – The European tire market is expected to grow to $49 billion (€44 billion) by 2021, accor…

Nokian to build technology centre in Spain
Added: 20 Sep 2016
Nokia, Finland – Nokian Tyres is opening a new technology centre for summer and winter tires in San…

Brexit 'prompts carmakers to look towards eastern Europe'
Added: 20 Sep 2016
London - Moves by carmakers to locate operations in eastern Europe have sped up in the wake of June…

China TBR maker General Science goes public
Added: 20 Sep 2016
Shanghai – China’s tire maker Jiangsu General Science Technology went public on the Shanghai Stock …

Kumho sale process to start – report
Added: 19 Sep 2016
Seoul – Kumho Tire Co.’s creditors are expected to begin a sell-off process for the tire-maker with…

Cooper Standard expands globally
Added: 19 Sep 2016
Novi, Michigan – Cooper Standard Automotive Inc. continues its growth path in Asia-Pacific and is c…

Cooper: Progress on guayule tire applications
Added: 19 Sep 2016
Albany, California – Cooper Tire & Rubber Co. scientists have reached a key milestone toward the go…

Goodyear on track with UK plant closure
Added: 19 Sep 2016
Wolverhampton, UK - Goodyear Dunlop Tyres UK Ltd has confirmed to ERJ that the planned closure of i…

RMA: US tire shipments look flat in 2016
Added: 19 Sep 2016
Washington—Total US tire shipments will grow by just 0.2 percent in 2016 over 2015, according to th…

China implements tire labelling provisions
Added: 19 Sep 2016
Beijing – The China Rubber Industry Association has issued the country’s first tire labelling admin…

Goodyear moves to improve shareholder yield - draft
Added: 16 Sep 2016
Boston, Massachusetts – Goodyear is raising its quarterly dividend by 3 cents per share, starting w…

CRIA mobilising Chinese tire makers to fight US tariffs
Added: 16 Sep 2016
Beijing – The China Rubber Industries Association (CRIA) is organising local Chinese tire makers fo…

Bioplastics cones to help Thai rubber trees grow
Added: 15 Sep 2016
Bangkok - Corbion, Global Bio-Polymers and Maxrich are developing a biodegradable root growth conta…

Dutch carbon black company appoints sales executives
Added: 15 Sep 2016
Nederweert, The Netherlands – Black Bear has appointed two senior executives Ad van Oorschot and Se…