The Notch Blog

Pirelli Tyre will invest 160 million euros to expand its Slatina, Romania plant, a move that will make the facility Pirelli’s largest...

Rubber News reports that Kenda Rubber Industrial Co. Ltd., Taiwan’s no. 2 tire maker,  has increased passenger tire capacity at its...

GASGOO.com reports from China’s Economic Observer News that Kumho Tire has been notified by the Nanjing Environmental Protection Bureau...

The Indonesian business paper Kontan reports that the largest tire manufacturer in Southeast Asia, PT Gajah Tunggal Tbk, will increase...

A report on the China Rubber Industry Association website, according to the European Rubber Journal’s translation, indicates that Jiangsu...

Bridgestone Corporation will increase production capacity at its Wuxi plant in China. The production capacity of radial passenger tires...

Bridgestone Corporation has announced that it will increase the production capacity of its Chinese radial passenger tire plant in...

Toyo Tire & Rubber Co., Ltd. has announced that it will build a new tire plant in Malaysia that will produce 5 million passenger car and...

The Japanese Automobile Tyre Manufacturers Association (JATMA) reports in its publication, Tyre Industry of Japan 2011, that Japan’s tire...

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

On July 1, 2011, Continental announced plans to build a new tire plant in Kaluga, Russia. Kaluga is a city of just over 325,000...

Stuff (via the Sydney Morning Herald) has a piece on Michelin’s ongoing work on a self-repairing tires, an area in which Continental also...

On June 9, Yokohama Rubber announced that it has begun delivery of its premium comfort tire ADVAN dB as original equipment for Toyota’s...

JAMA (Japan Automobile Manufacturers Association, Inc.) have released their latest production figures for Japanese automobile production,...

Bob Ulrich at Modern Tire Dealer notes something that also caught my eye. More and more cars are eliminating their spare tire to save...

On May 23, Yokohama Tire held a groundbreaking ceremony to mark the start of expansion work at the company’s Clark Freeport Zone tire...

Michelin said it expects global rubber production to grow 40% in the next decade, averting a market shortage and a price surge, Bloomberg...

From R&P News (subscription required) comes word that China plans to appeal a World Trade Organization ruling from last December that...

From European Rubber Journal comes word that Turkish tire maker BRISA has announced investments of $285 million over four years. The...

On Thursday, May 12, Continental Tire the Americas L.L.C. announced plans to invest $224 million to expand its tire plant in Mount...