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Klean Industries Inc. (Vancouver, Canada) has announced that its CEO, Jesse Klinkhamer, will be a keynote speaker at the Carbon Black...

According to proposed changes in the Union budget for FY 2011/12, India would reduce the customs duty on carbon black feedstock from 5%...

On March 1, Saudi Basic Industries Corp. and ExxonMobil Chemical Co. announced that they had selected Jubail, Saudi Arabia as the...

The Association of Natural Rubber Producing Countries is forecasting that output of natural rubber from key producing countries will grow...

According to Rubber & Plastics News (subscription required), the European Union plans to set up a market surveillance program to assess...

Goodyear has announced that it intends to close its tire plant in Union City, Tennessee by the end of 2011 as part of a program to cut...

From Tire Business (subscription required) comes word that Hankook Tire America Corp. will roll out three new tires this year, including...

From USA Today: The Obama administration and the state of California announced a deal today to propose their new fuel-economy standards...

Sam Fletcher at the Oil & Gas Journal highlights the record price spread between front-month benchmark US light, sweet crudes and North...

After a very sharp downturn that began around mid-2008 and deepened during the downturn in 2009, the commercial truck tire industry...

Tire Business, reporting on the preliminary findings of Lang Marketing, reports that 2010 was a strong year for the US light vehicle...

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A new “Green Roads Summit” at CONEXPO-CON/AGG 2011 will offer attendees ready-to apply green construction techniques and the latest...

The World Trade Organization’s dispute-settlement panel has sided with the Obama administration on a September 2009 decision to levy...

Here’s a story that has me scratching my head. On December 2, Bloomberg reported that Bridgestone planned to cut its rubber consumption...

On Thursday, OMNOVA Solutions announced that it had completed its acquisition of specialty chemicals manufacturer Eliokem International...

According to Reuters, Nokian will decide by the spring where to site a new Euro 200 million tire plant — either in Russia or another...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has announced a new website that should create more transparency with regard to the...

Yokohama Rubber Co. Ltd. has announced that Yokohama Tire Manufacturing (Thailand) Co. Ltd. has achieved “complete zero emissions” —...