Latest News


Update: Double Coin expands, but question over Shanghai facility

Update: Double Coin expands, but question over Shanghai facility

Added: 25 Apr 2016

Urumqi, China – Double Coin’s 51-percent owned subsidiary Double Coin (Xinjiang) Kunlun Tire earlie…

The global rubber and plastics machinery company makes KraussMaffei and Netstal injection presses and Berstorff extrusion technology and polyurethane machinery. KraussMaffei Group China CEO Christian Blatt recently sat down with Plastics News, an ERJ sister publication to discuss his company’s future in China.

KraussMaffei prepares for growth, new ownership

Added: 25 Apr 2016

China is an important market for KraussMaffei Group – and with state-owned China National Chemical …

French company delivers sample bio-based isobutene to Arlanxeo

French company delivers sample bio-based isobutene to Arlanxeo

Added: 25 Apr 2016

Evry, France – French renewable resource company Global Bioenergies has delivered isobutene produce…

Double Coin expands TBR plant

Double Coin expands TBR plant

Added: 25 Apr 2016

China 2014 tire map small crop

Urumqi, China – Double Coin’s 51-percent owned subsidiary Double Coin (Xinjiang) Kunlun Tire earlie…

ContiTech doubles hose production capacity in China

ContiTech doubles hose production capacity in China

Added: 22 Apr 2016

Changshu, China – ContiTech AG’s mobile fluid systems business has opened a second production hall …

Friday Focus: A new era for runflats?

Added: 22 Apr 2016

London -  When they were launched well over a decade ago, runflat tires seemed an attractive offeri…

Mitsubishi admits falsifying fuel-economy data

Mitsubishi admits falsifying fuel-economy data

Added: 21 Apr 2016

Tokyo – Mitsubishi Motors said it will probe whether cars exported from Japan have falsified fuel e…

Former Goodyear chairman and CEO Pilliod dies at 97

Former Goodyear chairman and CEO Pilliod dies at 97

Added: 21 Apr 2016

Akron, Ohio – Charles Pilliod Jr., former Goodyear chairman and CEO, died 18 April at the age of 97…

Tanzania to “revive” tire plant

Tanzania to “revive” tire plant

Added: 21 Apr 2016

Dar es Salaam - The government of Tanzania is planning to “revive” General Tyre East Africa as of J…

Sentury Thailand starts production

Sentury Thailand starts production

Added: 21 Apr 2016

Bangkok – Qingdao Sentury Tire’s Thai factory has started production, according to the Chinese tire…

US reduces antidumping duties for some Chinese OTR tires

US reduces antidumping duties for some Chinese OTR tires

Added: 21 Apr 2016

Washington – The US Department of Commerce has lowered antidumping duties for some off-the-road tir…

Western car tire markets nudge up sales at Michelin

Western car tire markets nudge up sales at Michelin

Added: 21 Apr 2016

Paris  -  Michelin revenues edged up in the first quarter, as a 4.3-percent rise in sales of passen…

Pirelli to invest $200m in Mexican plant

Added: 21 Apr 2016

Mexico City – Pirelli is planning to invest an additional $200 million (€177 million) in a new fact…

Bridgestone resumes production at quake-hit plant

Added: 21 Apr 2016

Kumamoto, Japan – Bridgestone has resumed production at its Kumamoto plant on Kyushu after a series…

Majerus, along with other industry veterans from Michelin, Mesnac, Pelmar Engineering and Quehenberger Logistics, will take part in a Day 2 panel discussion on how lean, automated and flexible can tire manufacturers become.

FTC 2016: Norbert Majerus, Lean Champion, Goodyear

Added: 21 Apr 2016

Goodyear’s lean champion, Norbert Majerus, will discuss streamlining and automation of tire plants …

Chinese rubber conference urges lean production

Chinese rubber conference urges lean production

Added: 20 Apr 2016

Qingdao, China – At the 2016 China Rubber Conference in Qingdao this March, industry and academic r…

Lam elected IISRP president for 2016-2017

Added: 20 Apr 2016

New Orleans, Louisiana –  Wing Keung, (Hendrick Lam), senior vice president of TSRC Corp. has been …

China fines Hankook Tire for pricing monopoly

China fines Hankook Tire for pricing monopoly

Added: 20 Apr 2016

Shanghai, China – Hankook Tire Co. Inc.’s sales company in Shanghai was fined nearly $340,000 (€300…

US rubber product deficit climbs in 2015

US rubber product deficit climbs in 2015

Added: 19 Apr 2016

Washington - The US rubber product trade deficit increased 3.1 percent overall during 2015, with ov…

Trelleborg to supply pipes, fire protection to Statoil

Trelleborg to supply pipes, fire protection to Statoil

Added: 19 Apr 2016

Trelleborg, Sweden – Trelleborg’s offshore operation in Norway, signed a framework agreement with S…