Source: Bernama news agency, Kuala Lumpur; 29 Apr 2008

Joseph P. Kennedy, Distinguished Professor of Polymer Science and Chemistry at the University of Akron, received Goodyear Medal, the highest technical award at ...

Dow Europe GmbH is announcing a price increase across the European, Middle Eastern, African and Indian regions for PE resins and for all polystyrene resins. ...

Source: "The Daily Star", Dhaka; 28 Apr 2008

Pirelli & C. S.p.A. and Politecnico di Milano University have teamed up to create a chair in “Chemical Foundations of Technology of Rubber and Composites” to ...

Twenty-five states issued proclamations in support of National Tire Safety Week, the Rubber Manufacturers Association said.

A university study has reported that Du Pont is the worst polluter in the U.S.

The Phosphorus business unit of PCC Rokita SA announced a significant price increase for Roflam P (tris(2-chloro-1-methylethyl) phosphate) with immediate ...

The marine industry supplier Taco Metals recently purchased three extruders from Davis-Standard, LLC for its new 15,800 m² facility in Sparta, ...

American Tire Corp. (ATC), an OTR tire manufacturer, has proposed to acquire The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company's OTR tire plant located in Topeka, Kansas.

Hitachi Cable Ltd. of Japan has purchased the brake hose division of Coupled Products LLC of Pensacola. No terms of the deal were disclosed.

Parker Hannifin Corp. has purchased all of the issued and outstanding shares of capital stock of HTR Holding Corp. and its subsidiaries, which include medical ...

India’s government has asked the national fair trade regulator MRTP Commission – a quasi-judicial tribunal established to investigate monopolistic, restrictive ...

The Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd. has signed an agreement on 10 April 2008, with Haryana State Industrial and Infrastructure Development Corporation, of India, to ...

Oman-based Octal Holding and Co. (SAOC) will add 500 ktpa of production capacity in PET resins by May 2010. This second-phase expansion will increase its ...

Having officially merged its North American truck-tire and retreading operations earlier this month, Bridgestone rolled out its new Bridgestone Bandag Tire ...

Ticona, the engineering polymers business of Celanese Corporation, plans to supplement its integrated complex in Nanjing, China, with a 15 kt compounding unit ...

Titan International Inc. is considering buying back up to all of the remaining shares of its former subsidiary, Titan Europe Plc.

Dynasol, a supplier of butadiene-styrene elastomers and manufacturers of SEBS, SBS, and SSBR, has recently formed a strategic alliance with SpecialChem, an ...

The business unit Inorganic Materials of Evonik Industries announced a price increase of 10 % for its pigment carbon blacks. The price increase will be ...

Source: Vietnam News Agency, Hanoi; 18 Apr 2008

Anticipating the return of slick tyres to Formula One racing in 2009, Bridgestone/Firestone, the series’ sole tyre supplier, is evaluating ways to allow fans to ...

Slovak rubber machinery maker Konstrukta Industry AS has signed a contract to supply two duplex apex extruding lines to Sibur-Russian Tyres’ Yaroslavl’s tyre ...

RTP Company, headquartered in Winona, MN, USA, has entered into an exclusive sales and manufacturing agreement with Bio­safe Inc., Pittsburgh, PA, USA, to use ...

Pirelli Tire North America L.L.C. has decided to recall 8,273 light truck tyres.

Hankook Tire America Corp. has added its sixth distribution center in the U.S., in Aurora, Illinois, near Chicago.

Jiri George Drobny, William Andrew Publishing, Norwich, NY, USA, 2007, 410 p., hardcover, EUR 208.00, ISBN 978-0-8155-1549-4

JK Tyre, Mumbai, India, has purchased Mexico's Compania Hulera Tornel S.A. de C.V. for USD 68 million.

The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company is introducing the Unisteel G149 RSA RH tire for on-highway regional service and the Unisteel G150 HSA for school bus and ...

The news report on a Cambridge company, Recovery Technologies, which breaks down used tires and recycles the rubber and steel found in the tire, said that the ...

Dow Europe GmbH announced that it will shutdown its Cobalt-Polybutadiene Rubber (Co-PBR) assets located in Berre L’Etang, France.

Newell Rubbermaid Inc. said it will cut nearly 200 jobs at a plant in Tennessee and move the work to Northeast Ohio and Texas in September.

The Schwertberg-based manu­facturer of injection moulding machines Engel Austria GmbH realigns its manufacturing in North America.

Source: Daily "The Jakarta Post", Jakarta; 11 Apr 2008

Chairman and CEO Robert J. Keegan told Goodyear shareholders the firm is "well positioned" for a successful 2008, with debt and legacy obligations expected to ...

A joint venture between Huntsman Corp. and Sasol Ltd. said it plans expand its maleic anhydride capacity by 75 %.

The inorganic materials business unit of Evonik Industries has announced a price increase of 15 % worldwide for its rubber silanes, effective 1 May 2008.

Cabot Corp. permanently has closed its carbon black plant in Waverly, West Virginia as scheduled.

Several private brand marketers are joining forces with Cooper Tire & Rubber Co. to help recall small lots of Cooper-made light truck tires sold under various ...

J.M. Huber Corp. has sold its kaolin clay business unit to IMin Partners of Fort Worth, Texas, a private equity capital fund, which renamed the business KaMin L.L.C.

Manitoba Province has begun a new scrap tire management system called that replaces a government-run scrap tire product.

Nearly a year after Myers Industries Inc. announced a $1.1 billion agreement to be acquired by an investment group and after subsequent delays in finalizing the ...

Chemtura Corporation has acquired the remaining 46.5 % of Baxenden Chemicals stock it did not already own.

Carlisle Companies Inc. has reorganized its business into seven entities and combined its tire, wheel and trailer business to form Transportation Products Group.

Tosoh Corporation announced that the company will invest 20 billion Yen (ca. 127 million EUR) in substantially increasing its ethyleneamine capacity 36,000 MT ...

Trelleborg will acquire an outstanding privately owned minority share of 20 % in Trelleborg Sealing Solutions India, thereby becoming sole owner.

Ineos Nova, Fribourg, Switzerland, will increase prices for all Polystyrene products in Europe effective from 1 April 2008. The premium on high-impact ...

Rohm and Haas Co. has completed the acquisition of the polymer dispersions division of OY Forcit A.B. for about USD85 million.

Garlock Sealing Technologies has completed construction of a 65,000-sq.-ft. (6040 sq. meters) manufacturing and distribution facility in Houston.

Emerald Hilton Davis L.L.C. has acquired Wolstenholme International Ltd.’s carbon black dispersions business and its assets.

Veyance Technologies Inc. plans to expand its 400,000-sq.-ft. (37260 sq. meters) Marysville heavy duty conveyor belt facility by 24,000 square feet (2230 sq. ...

KraussMaffei and Toshiba Machine Co., Ltd. have decided to jointly develop leading edge machinery for plastics processing and have signed a cooperation agreement.

Albemarle Corporation and Jinhai Albemarle will raise the prices of their polymer antioxidants, additive blends and orthoalkylated phenols by up to 15 % ...

Source: Daily "The Financial Express", Dhaka; 1 Apr 2008