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Fenner reports continued strong growth
Added: 11 Jan 2012
ERJ staff report (DS)
London -- Fenner PLC said sales are still strong. The company issued an interi…

NR prices rise overnight
Added: 11 Jan 2012
ERJ staff report (DS)
London -- Rubber prices increased overnight. On Tokyo's Tocom Exchange, prices…

Goodyear shares plunge after presentation to analysts
Added: 11 Jan 2012
ERJ staff report (DS)
Wall Street -- Shares in Goodyear Tire plunged by 10 percent after a presentat…

Michelin to benefit from Air France Dreamliner order
Added: 11 Jan 2012
ERJ staff report (DS)
Paris -- Boeing and Air France-KLM Group have finalised an order for 25 Boeing…

Titan International makes senior management appointments
Added: 11 Jan 2012
ERJ staff report (TB)
Quincy, Illinois -- Titan International Inc. has named William Campbell, who h…

Cancarb recertified in C-TPAT program
Added: 11 Jan 2012
ERJ staff report (R&PN)
Medicine Hat, Canada -- Cancarb Ltd. has received recertification to the Cus…

Rhein Chemie opens new production facility in Jhagadia, India
Added: 10 Jan 2012
ERJ staff report (LMH)
Jhagadia, India -- Rhein Chemie Rheinau GmbH has opened its new production fa…

South Africa promotes new tyre recycling plan
Added: 10 Jan 2012
ERJ staff report (LMH)
Cape Town - A waste tyre recycling project due to be introduced this year in …

Cooper Standard buys Sigit
Added: 10 Jan 2012
ERJ staff report (DS)
Novi, Michigan -- Cooper Standard has bought the automotive sealing business o…

Sibur-Russian Tyres in management buy-out
Added: 10 Jan 2012
Moscow -- Sibur-Russian Tyres is under new ownership. The former parent, Sibur Holding has sold the…

Freudenberg encourages women to succeed in engineering
Added: 10 Jan 2012
ERJ staff report (LMH)
Weinheim, Germany -- The automobile and automotive components industry is oft…

Goodyear launches RFID-chip truck tyres
Added: 10 Jan 2012
ERJ staff report (DS)
Kontich, Belgium -- Goodyear says the introduction of its Goodyear Regional RH…

NR prices rise overnight
Added: 10 Jan 2012
ERJ staff report (DS)
London -- Rubber prices increased slightly overnight. On Tokyo's Tocom Exchang…

Semperit begins publication of client magazine
Added: 10 Jan 2012
ERJ staff report (DS)
Wimpassing, Austria -- Semperit AG has published the first edition of a new ho…

News from elsewhere on the web (10 Jan 2012)
Added: 10 Jan 2012
(19 items)
London--The following links showed up in our daily search for news on the web. Readers mi…

Baosteel to begin steelcord production later this year
Added: 10 Jan 2012
ERJ staff report (DS)
Jiangsu Haimen Haibao Industrial Park, China -- Jiangsu Baosteel has begun con…

CRIA publishes December prices of rubber materials in China
Added: 9 Jan 2012
ERJ staff report (DS)
Beijing -- The China Rubber Industry Association (CRIA) has published a compre…

Cabot's Transfinity to open way for new products
Added: 9 Jan 2012
By David Shaw, ERJ staff
Boston, Massachusetts -- Cabot Corp's Transfinity product will allow rubber…

China releases tyre pricing data for December
Added: 9 Jan 2012
ERJ staff report (DS)
Beijing -- The China Rubber Industry Association has published the selling pri…

Bridgestone to increase prices of retread materials in Europe
Added: 9 Jan 2012
ERJ staff report (LMH)
Brussels - Bridgestone Europe will roll out a new round of price increases fo…