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Fiat crossover to fit Bridgestone tires
Added: 8 Jul 2015
Melfi, Italy - Fiat has chosen tires from Bridgestone for its new Fiat 500X crossover, said a press…
Cimcorp appoints new North America boss
Added: 8 Jul 2015
Grimsby, Canada – CEO of Cimcorp Automation Ltd. and co-founder of the former RMT Robotics, Doug Pi…
Bio-EPDM market "not expected to grow"
Added: 7 Jul 2015
Hürth, Germany - A new report on the global biopolymers market gives a downcast view of the prospec…
US judge dismisses shareholder suit against Cooper
Added: 7 Jul 2015
Wilmington, Delaware – A judge in the Delaware federal district court has granted Cooper Tire & Rub…
Hankook trials new facilities at China plant
Added: 6 Jul 2015
Chongqing, China – Hankook started a trial run of the phase-two project, including 6 million tire/y…
Michelin JV to build rubber plant in Indonesia
Added: 6 Jul 2015
Cilegon, Indonesia – A Michelin-owned joint venture has awarded Toyo Engineering Corp. and PT Inti …
ContiTech opens compounding plant in China
Added: 6 Jul 2015
Changshu, China – ContiTech AG has announced that it started production at tis rubber compounding f…
TyreSafe warns against illegal tires in UK
Added: 6 Jul 2015
London – More than a quarter of all drivers in the UK had an illegal tire on their vehicle, at the …
Bridgestone sets up auto-parts JV in Indonesia
Added: 6 Jul 2015
Tokyo – Bridgestone Corp. is to establish a joint venture company for the manufacture of anti-vibra…
Germany predicts buoyant machinery sales
Added: 6 Jul 2015
Frankfurt, Germany - Germany’s plastics and rubber machinery manufacturers retained their export do…
ERJ Archives - 100-year anniversary
Added: 6 Jul 2015
In its 100th anniversary edition published in June 1982, ERJ paid tribute to a number of scientists…
Trelleborg's new seal to reduce risk of concrete ingress for integrated pipes
Added: 6 Jul 2015
Trelleborg, Sweden - Trelleborg’s pipe seals operation has developed a new integrated concrete pipe…
China expansion part of Continental's master plan
Added: 5 Jul 2015
Hanover, Germany—Continental AG's Tire Division is investing about $280 million during a four-year …
Versalis, Chinese firms to develop “innovative” green tires
Added: 3 Jul 2015
Milan, Italy – Versalis (Eni), and two Mesnac companies; Ecombine and EVE Rubber Institute; have ag…
IISRP adds two new members
Added: 2 Jul 2015
Houston, Texas – The International Institute of Synthetic Rubber Producers (IISRP) has chosen two n…
China’s AVIC to buy Henniges
Added: 2 Jul 2015
London – China’s state-run aerospace company Aviation Industry Corp (AVIC) has reportedly agreed t…
SRI opens JV tire plant in Turkey
Added: 2 Jul 2015
Çankiri, Turkey — Japan’s Sumitomo Rubber Industries Ltd. (SRI) and Turkey’s Abdulkadir Ozcan Otomo…
Solvay starts production at Poland site
Added: 2 Jul 2015
Brussels – Solvay has launched its new highly dispersible silica (HDS) production plant in Wloclawe…
EC approves Pirelli takeover
Added: 2 Jul 2015
London – China National Tire & Rubber Co., a subsidiary of the China National Chemical Corp.(ChemCh…
Evonik expands butadiene production
Added: 2 Jul 2015
Essen, Germany – Evonik Industries recently started a new plant to make butadiene and other C4-base…
