The Notch Blog

On November 19, 2008, Saudi Basic Industries Corp. announced that representatives of SABIC and ExxonMobil had signed a Heads of Agreement...

Here’s a piece of news I got at the Carbon Black World conference, which is being held through Wednesday in Vancouver. Rhodia and Dow...

The Budapest Business Journal (citing MTI-Econews) is reporting that Columbian Tiszai Carbon has completed its expansion of its carbon...

Goodyear has become the second North American tiremaker to announce it is idling production due to raw material shortages. Last week,...

Tire Business (subscription required) is reporting that Cooper Tire & Rubber has suspended production at all its North American plants...

The Lanxess website has posted an excellent presentation from Dr. Alex Heitmann, Chairman of the Board of Management, LANXESS AG. By 2010...

The August 25, 2008 edition of Rubber & Plastics News featured an editorial (subscription required) about the recent Continental Carbon...

Perhaps the least surprising news of the day is that Americans are driving fewer miles due to high gas prices. More coverage here....

An intriguing possibility. According to the leading British newspaper, a flattened tyre of a Russian diplomatic car forced the...

From Reuters India comes news that Indian tire makers and other rubber users are asking the Indian government to eliminate the...

Just-auto has an overview of the run-flat tire market, including some history and predictions of where the market is going. Over the next...

U.S. tire shipments are projected to decline by nearly 4 percent in 2008 compared to 2007, according to the Rubber Manufacturers...

Who would have thought that most mundane of all topics — proper tire inflation — would become a hot button political issue in the 2008 US...

In discussing Apollo Tyre’s first quarter results, Onkar Kanwar, Apollo’s Chairman and Managing Director, said, “These are probably the...

For the last month or so, I’ve been hearing reports that a shortage of butadiene was causing sporadic supply problems in SBR and BR,...

On Wednesday, Goodyear Tire & Rubber announced plans to close its tire plant in Somerton, Victoria, Australia by the end of 2008. The...

The Chinese government has banned the production and shipment of numerous chemicals in the area surrounding Beijing during the run-up to...

On Wednesday, Bridgestone Corporation announced that its shipments of self-supporting run-flat tires had reached 10 million units in...

The dismal US auto sales figures released this week were no surprise to anyone who has filled their gas tank recently. Reuters reports:...

In April, Notch Consulting Group published a new report on the tire industry entitled Tire Industry Investment 2008. It is an Excel-only...