Four Vietnamese rubber firms are responsible for destroying an estimated 1,000 hectares of community forest, including an indigenous graveyard, in Ratanakkiri’s Andong Meas district, a group of NGOs have claimed. The land dispute involving 196 families living in Talav commune…
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In 2004, Taiwanese rubber injection machine maker Tung Yu started a collaboration with French injection moulding machine maker Rep International, which has been manufacturing since 1948. The cooperation was based on the technology and sales channel cooperation to become the…
2014 Sales projections for the European tyre market
The European tyre market is expected to witness a variable increase in tyre sales by early 2014. The focus will be on new and retreaded tyres and expected sales will depend on how the car industry fares in 2014. The…
CEAT drops after major fire at Bhandup plant
Key benchmark indices retained positive zone in afternoon trade. The barometer index, the S&P BSE Sensex, was up 57.07 points or 0.28%, up close to 120 points from the day’s low and off about 10 points from the day’s high.…
Falken tyres new energy efficient tyre
Tyre engineers in Japan have for the first time, employed a super computer normally used for climate simulation, together with the SPring-8 Materials Research Centre and its synchrotron radiation facility, to create a new energy-efficient tyre. These powerful simulation tools,…
Recovery in rubber industry’s growth is imminent: Sheela Thomas
Current low rubber prices and declining demand for its products is a matter of concern but growth of rubber industry has always been cyclical and recovery is “imminent”, Rubber Board Chairman Sheela Thomas said today. “Every industry passes through perils…
British racing ‘will suffer’ if Dunlop tyre factory closes
The £9 billion motorsport industry will be hit hard if Goodyear Dunlop presses ahead with plans to close its Birmingham tyre factory, manufacturers and politicians have warned. Proposals to shift production of high performance tyres from the Dunlop Motorsport factory…
Yokohama invests Rs 300 crore in first Indian plant
Yokohama opened its first tyre manufacturing unit in India at Bahadurgarh in Haryana with an investment of over Rs 300 crore. The first phase of production is expected to start in the second half of 2014 with a maximum production…
WTB adds Nano gravel tyre
WTB has a new, gravel-specific tyre, the Nano 40c, which boasts a plump 40mm casing, a rounded profile and a center-line tread pattern designed for riding and racing road bikes on gravel and dirt roads. WTB debuted the tire at…
Absence of China in global market caused fall in rubber price
The continuing slowdown in the European and the US economies apart, Chinese withdrawal from the global market before the end of December had fuelled the current fall in natural rubber price, said Rubber Board chairman Sheela Thomas here on Wednesday.…