Dunlop Aircraft breaks ground on China retread plant
BIRMINGHAM, England (Feb. 22, 2008) –– Dunlop Aircraft Tyres Ltd. has begun preliminary ground work and held a traditional stone laying ceremony on the site of its new retreading plant in Jinjiang,...

GITI Tire supports Asian conservation efforts
BALI, Indonesia (Feb. 22, 2008) — GITI Tire (China) Investment Co. Ltd. is donating $1 million for conservation projects in northern Sumatra, Indonesia, and the mountains of southwest China in...

Goodyear forms N. Asia business unit
SHANGHAI (Feb. 5, 2008) — Goodyear has formed a North Asia business unit, covering China, South Korea, Hong Kong and Taiwan, in a bid to improve customer service to customers there. Michael...

Bridgestone expanding retail in Thailand, Malaysia
TOKYO (Feb. 4, 2008) — Bridgestone Corp. is buying 64 Shell Autoserv car maintenance outlets in Thailand and eight in Malaysia to enhance its company-owned tire and vehicle maintentance chains...

Goodyear to scale back production in France
AMIENS, France (Jan. 24, 2008) — Goodyear is planning to reduce production at its two tire plants in Amiens, citing high costs and the rejection of a restructuring plan last year by employees. ...

Bekaert planning $140M steel cord plant in Russia
KORTRIJK, Belgium (Jan. 23, 2008) — Independent steel products maker N.V. Bekaert S.A. plans to build a steel cord plant in Russia over the coming six years, with initial production expected in...

Bridgestone expanding Thai passenger tire plant
TOKYO (Jan. 22, 2008) — Bridgestone Corp. has earmarked $94.3 million over three years to expand capacity nearly 20 percent at its Nong Khae, Thailand, passenger tire plant. Bridgestone said...

Apollo budgets $100m for 2 new plants in India
GURGAON, India (Jan. 17, 2008) — Apollo Tyres Ltd. will build two plants in India over the coming two years, at a cost of nearly $100 million, for radial consumer and commercial tires and...

Yokohama to use test track in Spain
TOKYO (Jan. 17, 2008) — Yokohama Rubber Co. Ltd. has struck a deal with a Spanish automotive engineering company to use for the next 15 years a test track that firm has under construction near...

Amtel-Vredestein to sell or close Moscow tire plant
ENSCHEDE, Netherlands (Dec. 18, 2007) — Amtel-Vredestein N.V. is considering selling its Moscow tire plant and relocating tire production to its Voronezh, Russia, factory. The company has held...

Michelin to book $190 million charge for French plant closing
PARIS (Dec. 4, 2007) — Group Michelin will book a charge of nearly $190 million again this year’s earnings to cover the costs of closing its Toul, France, passenger tire plant next year....

Marangoni to open tire plant in Sri Lanka
VERONA, Italy (Nov. 29, 2007) — Marangoni Industrial Tyres, a division of Marangoni S.p.A., has bought a plant in Sri Lanka and is retrofitting it for the production of solid industrial tires,...

Pirelli car tire plant in China starts production
YANZHOU, China (Nov. 27, 2007) — Pirelli Tyre S.p.A. has inaugurated production of passenger tires at a new factory adjacent to its joint venture truck tire plant in Yanzhou. The...

Hungary’s support of Hankook plant detailed
BUDAPEST (Nov. 15, 2007) — The Hungarian government agreed to provide up to $80 million toward the construction of Hankook Tire Co. Inc.’s tire plant in Hungary, according to newly released...

Matador-Nokian off-take to cease after takeover
PUCHOV, Slovak Republic (Nov. 15, 2007) — Following the acquisition by Continental A.G. of 51 percent of the equity in Matador A.S.’s rubber activities, Matador will cease production of...

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