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Comment: The way forward for 'recovered carbon black'
Added: 3 Mar 2015
Jacob Peled of Pelmar Engineering provides some interesting viewpoints on the report titled 'Recove…

Yokohama marine hoses receive API Q1 cert
Added: 2 Mar 2015
Tokyo ‒ The Yokohama Rubber Co. Ltd has announced that its marine hoses employed for offshore crude…

Titan optimistic despite difficult 2014
Added: 2 Mar 2015
Quincy, Illinois —Titan International Inc. suffered net and operating losses last year on 12.4 perc…

Marangoni opens new site in France
Added: 2 Mar 2015
Rovereto, Italy – Manutention, a Marangoni Industries' French subsidiary, has recently inaugurated …

Major NR producers meet as market is ‘set to improve’
Added: 2 Mar 2015
Bandung, Indonesia – Major natural rubber producers in South Asia met in Bandung, Indonesia on 26 F…

China passenger car production, sales up
Added: 2 Mar 2015
Beijing – China’s production and sales of passenger cars rose in 2014, registering 10.2 percent and…

ERJ Top 10 Stories of the Week (20-26 Feb)
Added: 27 Feb 2015
This week's listing of the most-viewed stories on the European Rubber Journal website:
Analyst: Ques…

Mitas names new international sales director
Added: 27 Feb 2015
Prague – Mitas International has appointed Milan Šindelář as its sales director, Mitas announced27 …

Cooper Standard takes over China automotive sealing firm
Added: 27 Feb 2015
Novi, Michigan – Cooper Standard Holdings Inc. has completed its purchase of Huayu Automotive Syste…

End of the road for global tire trade deal?
Added: 26 Feb 2015
London - The US delegation failed to show up again at talks aimed at freeing up trade in the global…

Columbian Chemicals (Jining) to break ground on carbon black project
Added: 26 Feb 2015
Shandong, China - Columbian Chemicals (Jining), a joint venture with China's Jining Carbon Group, i…

Deloitte, banks to rescue Genan tire recycling firm
Added: 26 Feb 2015
Viborg, Denmark – Danish pension fund PKA, accountancy firm Deloitte and a group of bank lenders ha…

Fenner UK business hit by Ukraine conflict
Added: 26 Feb 2015
London – Fenner Dunlop is making every effort to “reinvent” its conveyor belt-manufacturing busines…

Interview: Hexpol executive discusses firm's acquisitions, future
Added: 26 Feb 2015
Hexpol Compounding has come a long way in the past five years. The Eupen, Belgium-based business, p…

Kraton revenue down as speciality polymer demand drops
Added: 26 Feb 2015
Houston, Texas – Kraton Performance Polymers has reported a 4.8-percent decline in revenue in its 2…

Mesnac unveils new machinery for giant OTR tires
Added: 25 Feb 2015
Shandong, China - Mesnac has finished the development of a new giant OTR radial tire building machi…

Cooper Standard income drops despite sales rise
Added: 25 Feb 2015
Cooper Standard income drops despite sales rise
Novi, Michigan — Cooper Standard Holdings Inc., pare…

Apollo launches recruitment drive in Hungary
Added: 25 Feb 2015
London – Apollo Tyres Ltd has announced a recruitment drive for its Greenfield facility soon to be …

Bayer MaterialScience appoints new chairman of board
Added: 25 Feb 2015
Leverkusen, Germany - The supervisory board of Bayer AG have agreed to appoint Richard Pott to the …

ContiTech NAFTA appoints head
Added: 24 Feb 2015
Hanover, Germany – ContiTech AG, part of Continental AG, has appointed Charles Seymour as executive…