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TPEs on track to reach 5.5m tonnes by 2020
Added: 15 Jan 2016
Shawbury, Shrewsbury – Commodity applications are driving significant global in the global thermopl…
Bluestar licences silicone HCR compounding in Turkey
Added: 14 Jan 2016
London – Bluestar Silicones and Turkey’s rubber compounder Basoğlu Kablo are to set up a rubber com…
Low oil prices make it harder to sell fuel-efficient cars - GM boss
Added: 14 Jan 2016
Detroit, Michigan – Although slumping oil prices have not changed General Motors' product developme…
Egyptian auto-maker ventures into tire market
Added: 14 Jan 2016
London – Egyptian automotive assembly and manufacturing giant Ghabbour Auto is venturing into the t…
Schrader to relocate US plant
Added: 14 Jan 2016
Springfield, Tennessee – Schrader Electronics, part of technology company Sensata, is closing its S…
US body to study duties on imported OTR tires
Added: 14 Jan 2016
Washington – The US International Trade Commission (ITC) has scheduled a 29 Jan conference in conne…
Job cuts and closure at Fenner belts business
Added: 13 Jan 2016
London - Fenner PLC is restructuring its conveyor belt manufacturing facilities in the Americas in …
Lexus luxury sport coupe debuts on Michelin run-flats
Added: 13 Jan 2016
Detroit, Michigan – The launch this week of the highly anticipated Lexus LC500 luxury sports coupe …
Michelin's Uniroyal truck tires to debut in US market
Added: 13 Jan 2016
Greenville, South Carolina – Michelin North America Inc. is introducing Uniroyal-brand medium truck…
Freudenberg Medical expands in US
Added: 13 Jan 2016
Carpinteria, California – Freudenberg Medical has expanded its extrusion and moulding clean rooms a…
German machinery makers eye record 2016
Added: 12 Jan 2016
Frankfurt, Germany – The German plastics and rubber machinery sector is on track to achieve its hig…
Michelin CEO proposes ‘innovation incubator’
Added: 12 Jan 2016
Detroit, Michigan – Group Michelin CEO Jean Dominique Senard is pushing for his company to tap into…
China summit to pour oil on troubled waters
Added: 12 Jan 2016
Hangzhou, China – Chinese tire and rubber makers are hoping for an upturn in fortunes after the pro…
Smithers appoints president for two units
Added: 12 Jan 2016
Akron, Ohio – The Smithers Group has appointed Nathaniel Leonard as president for Smithers Rapra an…
ContiTech to expand US industrial hose plant
Added: 12 Jan 2016
Mount Pleasant, Iowa—The ContiTech business unit of Continental A.G. plans to spend $7.2 million (€…
TST makes shares pledge, signs machinery deal
Added: 11 Jan 2016
Tianjin, China – Chinese machinery maker TST on 9 Jan issued a statement disclosing the pledging of…
Titan, USW seek duties on imported OTR tires
Added: 11 Jan 2016
Washington – Titan International Inc. and the United Steelworkers union have filed petitions with t…
Continental posts 14% rise in sales for 2015
Added: 11 Jan 2016
Hanover, Germany – Continental AG has posted a 14 percent rise in sales in the company’s preliminar…
ChemChina in €925m swoop for KraussMaffei
Added: 11 Jan 2016
Munich, Germany – German plastics and rubber machinery maker KraussMaffei Group (KM) has been bough…
Toxic smoke alert in Melbourne tire fire
Added: 11 Jan 2016
Melbourne, Australia – Over 100 fire fighters fought a large fire in the Broadmeadows district of M…
