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Specialty Tires of America is investing $1.5 million over three years to modernize and upgrade its tire plant in Indiana, Pennsylvania...

Michelin has developed new, highly energy efficient tires to help increase the overall range of Renault’s new model, ZOE. All Renault ZOE...

Rubber News (subscription required) reports that Goodyear is raising prices on its consumer tires in the U.S. and Canada and commercial...

On March 6, Goodyear announced that it was working together with DuPont Industrial Biosciences to develop BioIsoprene™, a bio-based...

From Tyrepress (subscription required): Renault has chosen Continental’s new Conti.e.Contact range of low rolling resistance tires as OE...

Koppers Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Koppers Holdings Inc., has entered into a Memorandum of Understanding with Nippon Steel...

From Reuters: Michelin SCA, the world’s No.2 tyremaker, raised its 2015 profit goal by a quarter, encouraged by demand from European and...

Last week, Continental Tire announced plans to double plant size and more than triple capacity at its ContiLifeCycle tread rubber...

Proving the law of unintended consequences comes this story from Tire Business: Proposed changes to corporate average fuel economy (CAFE)...

On December 12, Canada’s Cancarb Limited, which is the world’s leading producer of thermal black, and Nordmann, Rassmann GmbH (NRC)...

2011 TIRE SHIPMENTS TO GROW NEARLY ONE PERCENT Two percent increase anticipated for 2012 WASHINGTON, D.C., December 2, 2011 – The Rubber...

On Monday, November 28, Cooper Tire & Rubber Co announced that it locked out the unionized workforce at its Findlay, Ohio tire plant...

Tyrepress.com reports that Russia’s Government Commission on Monitoring Foreign Investment has approved Sibur-Russian Tyres’s plan to...

Here is an innovative, interactive advertisement for Mercedes-Benz. Very fun and original. Escape the Map.

Notch Consulting forecasts that global demand for rubber chemicals will increase 4.1%/year from 2010 to 2015, while growth for the world...

Asks Tire Review. According to an official statement Bridgestone released to the Nikkei, the company is expected to face a shortage of an...

European Rubber Journal (subscription required) picks up an intriguing piece of news published in the Qilu Evening News (Chinese...

From European Rubber Journal (subscription required) comes word that the auto industry is pressing the Obama administration for a promise...

Bridgestone Americas Tire Operations will invest $135 million to expand capacity at its passenger and light truck tire plant in Aiken...

According to Edmunds.com, increased incentive spending in June by Toyota and Honda indicate that the two Japanese automakers are turning...