Toyo Tire & Rubber Co. Ltd. announced plans to invest approximately $207 million (20 billion yen) to expand production capacity at its Toyo Tire North America Manufacturing Inc. (TNA) plant in White, Georgia. The company says the expansion, ...
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Pirelli plans investing $200m to Chinese factory by the end of next year, in order to make China as its largest manufacturing center. Gregorio Borgo, the president of Pirelli in the Asia-Pacific region, said: “We will build a ...
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Bridgestone's Chinese subsidiary Bridgestone Shenyang Tire will invest about $299.7m to build a new tyre manufacturing facility at the Shenyang Chemical Industry Park in China. The company's current Shenyang plant located in Shenyang City ...
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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. ...
Japanese tire maker Bridgestone in collaboration with Ajinomoto has developed polymerised high-cis polyisoprene (IR), a synthetic rubber produced using bio-based isoprene, a substance produced from biomass raw materials using fermentation ...
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Italian tire manufacturer Pirelli has revealed a plan to invest EUR105m in its Romanian plant over the next five years to boost production. The investment will be complemented by EUR 35m aid from Romanian government which will be used to ...
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BHP Billiton Ltd. (RIO), the world’s biggest mining company, said China’s steel production is slowing as the world’s fastest-growing major economy starts to shift to focus more on consumers than large building projects. ...
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