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SUMTER, S.C. (March 28, 2012) — Continental Tire the Americas today broke ground on its $500 million car and light truck tire plant in...

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...

On February 27, unionized workers at Cooper Tire & Rubber Co.’s Findlay tire plant ratified a new five-year labor contract, thus ending a...

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...

The European tire industry’s premium conference, the annual Tire Technology Expo, will be held this week (February 14-16) in the...

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

Michelin North America is searching for the right location for its so-called “Project Cougar,” a tire plant valued at some $550 million....

Tire company CEAT on Wednesday announced plans to set up a Rs. 250-crore ($50 million) manufacturing plant in Bangladesh. The initial...

Mike McNulty at R&P News has posted an interesting interview with two of Yokohama Tire’s top people in the US: Rick Phillips, director of...

On Thursday, Cooper Tire & Rubber announced that United Steelworkers Local 752L overwhelmingly ratified a new four-year labor agreement...

Titan Tire plans to create 300 jobs by year’s end at its Union City, Tenn., plant at the location of the former Goodyear Tire & Rubber...

Pirelli’s Tyre Market Watch data for December 2011 show mixed results by region. NAFTA car and light truck tire sales volumes were up...

Farm and industrial tyre manufacturer Mitas Tires North America Inc. has cured its first test tyre at its new plant in Charles City,...

From R&P News comes word that Continental Tire the Americas L.L.C. plans to raise prices Feb. 15 on all Continental-, General- and...

From the Toledo Blade comes word that Cooper Tire & Rubber has reached a tentative agreement with the union that represents its...

Yokohama Tire Corporation has announced it will implement a price increase of up to 8% on all of its commercial truck tires in the U.S.,...

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