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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…

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
Added: 25 Apr 2016
Evry, France – French renewable resource company Global Bioenergies has delivered isobutene produce…

Double Coin expands TBR plant
Added: 25 Apr 2016
Urumqi, China – Double Coin’s 51-percent owned subsidiary Double Coin (Xinjiang) Kunlun Tire earlie…

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
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
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
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
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
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
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…

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
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
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
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
Added: 19 Apr 2016
Trelleborg, Sweden – Trelleborg’s offshore operation in Norway, signed a framework agreement with S…