The Notch Blog

Tire Business reports that Balkrishna Industries Ltd. (BKT), an Indian producer of OTR tires, is suspending its plans for a U.S. tire...

Korea’s Nexen Tire will hold an opening ceremony for its new $1 billion tire plant in the Czech Republic on August 28. The plant, located...

Tire Business reports that Michelin North America has expanded the range of its Tweel non-pneumatic tire/wheel hybrid with a pair of...

From R&P News comes the news that Toyo Tire will build a $450 million passenger and light truck tire plant in Europe. Toyo has selected a...

Tire Business reports that the new 2020 Corvette will be equipped with Michelin’s Pilot Sport ALS run-flats, which Michelin said were...

ERJ reports that Michelin is considering the future of its car tire production plant in Bamberg as demand continues to fall for...

Evonik Industries A.G. announced that it has developed a silica/silane technology that can be used in natural rubber compounds to reduce...

Inaugurated on April 5th, BKT’s new European headquarters in Seregno at the outskirts of Milan has been completely renovated to convey...

Nexen Tire Europe is ready to begin trial production at its $1 billion greenfield tire plant in Zatec in northeastern Czech Republic,...

China’s Shandong Linglong Tire Co. Ltd. has laid a ceremonial corner stone for its greenfield tire factory project in Zrenjanin,...

Sumitomo Rubber Industries Ltd.’s Brazilian subsidiary has initiated production of radial truck and bus tires at its plant in Fazenda,...

Continental Tire the Americas is expanding its plant in Sumter, South Carolina to accommodate production of the company’s ContiSeal...

Eighteen months after breaking ground on its first North American tire facility, Nokian Tyres P.L.C. is on schedule to begin producing...

Chinese tire company Prinx Chengshan (Shandong) Tire Co. Ltd. has broken ground for its new manufacturing plant in Thailand. Production...

The EU is updating its rules on the energy performance labeling of tires and extending its scope to tires for heavy-duty vehicles. The...

Ford Motor Company will equip the new Ford Explorer with Michelin Selfseal tires. The 2020 Explorer is the first SUV to offer Michelin...

Six years after the Michelin Group closed its plant there, tire production returns to Algeria. The Iris Group announced the successful...

Continental and Kordsa have together developed a new sustainable adhesive technology standard for bonding textile reinforcing materials...

Chinese authorities have audited and approved research by Linglong Tire into the “large-scale application” of graphene rubber composites...

Nokian Tyres is on target to complete construction of its $360 million tire plant in Dayton, Tennessee later this year and has posted a...