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China faces an added threat down the road: Capacity glut

China faces an added threat down the road: Capacity glut

Added: 1 Sep 2015

Detroit, Michigan - The news coming out of China right now is bad, and chances are, it's going to g…

New reference book "Automotive Vibration Control Technology"

New reference book "Automotive Vibration Control Technology"

Added: 1 Sep 2015

Darmstadt, Germany – With its new reference book "Automotive Vibration Control Technology", Trelleb…

Along with the possibility of building a new tire plant, Liu said Double Coin and Huayi are open to possible joint ventures in the US with other tire companies. This might be in the form of acquiring capacity in another company’s tire plant that has excess production, an off-take arrangement with a manufacturer in the US, joint cooperation on the business side and/or technical cooperation.

Double Coin mulls factory outside China

Added: 31 Aug 2015

Shanghai – Double Coin Holdings Ltd, one of China’s largest tire manufacturers, is studying the fea…

Orion to present latest carbon black advances

Orion to present latest carbon black advances

Added: 30 Aug 2015

Kingwood, Texas – Orion Engineered Carbons will feature new carbon black technology that can improv…

Turkish Airlines seeks tire maker for retreading project

Turkish Airlines seeks tire maker for retreading project

Added: 28 Aug 2015

London – Turkish Airlines is trying to find a tire manufacturer to help in setting up an aircraft t…

Conti rolls out run-flats from Slovak plant

Conti rolls out run-flats from Slovak plant

Added: 28 Aug 2015

Puchov, Slovakia – Matador tire company, part of Continental AG, has rolled out a test series of ru…

European polymer prices under pressure

European polymer prices under pressure

Added: 28 Aug 2015

London - After four months of sharply rising notations, European standard thermoplastic prices took…

Lanxess starts up new Nd-BR plant in Singapore

Added: 28 Aug 2015

Singapore– Lanxess AG officially inaugurated its new neodymium butadiene rubber (Nd-BR) plant in Si…

Orion hiking carbon black prices

Orion hiking carbon black prices

Added: 27 Aug 2015

Kingwood, Texas – Orion Engineered Carbons is increasing prices of its speciality carbon blacks by …

In its half-yearly financial report, the Austrian speciality rubber and plastics products group said it was also expecting to continue capacities expansion in the second half of 2015, in both the medical and industrial sectors, with €50 million earmarked for growth investments.

Semperit gloves factory to open in Malaysia, expansion on agenda

Added: 27 Aug 2015

Vienna – Semperit AG is set to open a new gloves production plant in Malaysian in 2016, the group a…

Analysis: Impact of US import duties still murky

Analysis: Impact of US import duties still murky

Added: 27 Aug 2015

Akron, Ohio – A strange thing happened along the path to throttling the Chinese threat to the US ti…

 Pitch Perfect (from left to right): Andrew Cole, Marco Paracciani (Apollo), Jonathan Rigby (Manchester United) and Denis Irwin celebrating the recycled tyre rubber pitch release.

Apollo expands Man U football deal to 129 countries

Added: 27 Aug 2015

Gurgaon, India – Apollo Tyres has extended its marketing association with Manchester United Footbal…

 NREL scientist Jianping Yu holds a petri dish of cyanobacteria culture being grown in his lab.

Researchers probe microbes for a future polymer building block

Added: 27 Aug 2015

Golden, Colorado - Microbes commonly found in moist, natural environments could eventually be a sou…

Mitsubishi Chemical adds TPE distributor in Germany

Mitsubishi Chemical adds TPE distributor in Germany

Added: 26 Aug 2015

Tiffauges, France – MItsubishi Chemical Performance Polymers (MCPP) has started a distribution agre…

Guizhou Tire to raise €100m in medium-term notes

Guizhou Tire to raise €100m in medium-term notes

Added: 26 Aug 2015

Guizhou, China – Shenzhen-listed Guizhou Tire has received regulators’ approval for the issuance of…

Bridgestone starts conveyor belt plant in Thailand

Bridgestone starts conveyor belt plant in Thailand

Added: 25 Aug 2015

Tokyo – Bridgestone NCR Co. Ltd, a subsidiary of Bridgestone Corp., has started production of conve…

Lotte Ube synthetic rubber plant opens in Malaysia

Lotte Ube synthetic rubber plant opens in Malaysia

Added: 25 Aug 2015

Tokyo - Lotte Ube Synthetic Rubber (LUSR) has opened a plant for the manufacture of butadiene rubbe…

Strike threat at Hankook – report

Strike threat at Hankook – report

Added: 25 Aug 2015

Seoul – South Korean tire maker Hankook may face its first ever workers’ strike, news reports from …

Michelin Nova Scotia plant revamp complete

Michelin Nova Scotia plant revamp complete

Added: 25 Aug 2015

Pictou, Nova Scotia – Michelin North America (Canada) Inc. has completed the phase-out of nearly al…

Propylene blast shuts down Czech plant

Propylene blast shuts down Czech plant

Added: 25 Aug 2015

Prague – Czech chemicals producer Unipetrol AS has been forced to shut down its key petrochemicals …