Optimal tyre inflation pressure and the right tyre selection mean the best possible tyre performance and the greatest possible fleet efficiency. What sounds so simple is not always easy to implement in the price-driven day-to-day business of fleets. Continental therefore…
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Cabot to open battery application centre in Europe
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In the European Union (EU)’s latest 10th package of sanctions against Russia, since the country’s aggression against Ukraine, are import bans into the EU of Russian high-revenue goods such as bitumen and related materials like asphalt; and synthetic rubber and carbon blacks. These new…
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