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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"
Added: 1 Sep 2015
Darmstadt, Germany – With its new reference book "Automotive Vibration Control Technology", Trelleb…

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
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
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
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
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
Added: 27 Aug 2015
Kingwood, Texas – Orion Engineered Carbons is increasing prices of its speciality carbon blacks by …

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
Added: 27 Aug 2015
Akron, Ohio – A strange thing happened along the path to throttling the Chinese threat to the US ti…

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…

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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Added: 25 Aug 2015
Prague – Czech chemicals producer Unipetrol AS has been forced to shut down its key petrochemicals …