Continental has launched three limited-edition passenger car and bus tires with a special design on the side walls, to celebrate the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil. The special design on the ContiPowerContact and ContiMaxContact MC 5 ...
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Look around at the number industrial uses for U.S. soy. The engine manufacturers that support the use of biodiesel in their engines. Or the farm-equipment companies that use soy-based body panels. Or the car companies that use soy-based ...
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Toyo Tire North America Manufacturing (TNA) has broken ground on a project to expand its 2,000,000ft2 tire manufacturing plant in White, Georgia. The project will add 700,000ft2 to the plant. It will also expand the warehouse section of ...
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The Toyo Georgia plant Phase IV groundbreaking ceremony took place Dec 6, 2013. (Left-to-right): James Jarrett, chairman, Bartow/Cartersville Joint Development Authority; Steve Taylor, Bartow County Commissioner; Honorable Nathan Deal, ...
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Bridgestone Corp. announced it will increase capacity at its Wuxi plant in China to meet rising demand for high-performance tires. The company will invest $139 million to boost production by about 5,300 tires a day. The capacity increase ...
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Bridgestone (Wuxi) Tire, a group company of Japanese tiremaker Bridgestone, is set to invest CNY852m ($139m) to expand production capacity at its passenger car radial tire plant in Wuxi, Jiangsu Province, China. This move by the tiremaker ...
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Apollo Vredestein B.V. posted net income of 46.6 million euros on net sales of 425.5 million euros for its 2012-13 financial year. That compares to net income of 36.5 million euros on net sales of 426.9 million euros for its previous ...
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Japan based Yokohama Rubber is planning to invest JPY11bn ($118m) to start the second phase expansion for Yokohama Tire Philippines (YTPI), a local subsidiary for manufacturing and selling passenger car tires, in May 2013. According to ...
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Bridgestone has opened a new tire manufacturing plant in Pune, India and has commenced production of passenger car radial tires (PSR). The new plant is part of tire maker's JPY50bn ($538.8m) project, which is being executed in phases. ...
The global automotive tyre market is expected to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 4% between 2012-2017 to reach $187bn, according to a new report. Lucintel's 'Global Automotive Tire Industry 2012-2017: Trends, Profits and ...
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