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This week, Nokian Tyres North America began commercial scale production of passenger car and light truck tires at its new plant in...

Notch Consulting has updated its report World Markets for Insoluble Sulfur. The report provides a detailed analysis of the global market...

Notch Consulting is pleased to announce the publication of World Markets for Insoluble Sulfur 2015, an update of a report covering the...

Tire Business has an overview of the current slate of tire plant expansions underway or planned for the United States. This includes...

Notch Consulting is pleased to announce the publication of World Markets for Insoluble Sulfur, a new report covering the global outlook...

On September 19, Bridgestone Corporation announced that Brisa Bridgestone Sabancı Lastik Sanayi ve Ticaret A.Ş. (Brisa) is evaluating...

Michelin announced this week that it was shutting down its Colombian subsidiary Icollantas. The decision will result in the closure of...

Rubber News (subscription required) reports that Bridgestone Americas is progressing steadily on two expansion projects in South Carolina...

Nokian is scheduled to begin production at its new factory in Vsevolozhsk, Russia in June 2012. The factory is built alonside an existing...

On May 15, Oriental Carbon & Chemicals Ltd. of Kolkata, India commissioned the second 5,500 mtpa phase of its 11,000 mtpa expansion...

2011 TIRE SHIPMENTS TO GROW NEARLY ONE PERCENT Two percent increase anticipated for 2012 WASHINGTON, D.C., December 2, 2011 – The Rubber...

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...

On May 27, Taizhou Sinorgchem Technology Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of Jiangsu Sinorgchem Technology Co., Ltd., broke ground on a new RMB 1...

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

Tire Business reported today (subscription required) that Continental A.G. is planning to build a greenfield-site tire plant in the U.S.,...

Toyota Motors has announced that its previously announced production cuts will last at least until November/December as the carmaker...

On Monday, Toyota announced it will shut down all of its North American factories due to shortages of parts from Japan. The temporary...

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...

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