Rubber & Plastics News back issues from August 2007:
Day-to-day operations stay same, future full of growth, CEO says.(News)
Aug 06, 2007 ... Byline: Mike McNulty Goodyear Engineered Products is sporting a new name, but its mission remains unchanged. The former division of Goodyear, purchased by Washington-based Carlyle Group for almost $1.5 billion Aug. 1, is now called Veyance Technologies Inc. ...
Locally grown.(Opinion)(Rubber industry)(Column)
Aug 06, 2007 ... Byline: Edward Noga The other day I headed over to the local outdoor market to nose around. I didn't need anything, but when does an American have to need something to go shopping? Maybe there's one of those Farmers' Markets where you live-they are certainly in ...
Calendar.(Calendar)
Aug 06, 2007 ... Rubber groups Blue Ridge Rubber Group: Technical meeting, Sept. 20, Olde Beau Golf Club, Roaring Gap, N.C. (Roger Kyer, phone 336-558-4806) Brazilian Association of Rubber Technology: Customer-focused Innovation and New Keltan grades, Aug. 8, Sao Paulo, Brazil; Third ...
Double header; Tough going for Ghosn as he tries to run pair of auto makers.(Opinion)
Aug 06, 2007 ... Byline: James B. Treece Automotive News The early returns on Carlos Ghosn's grand experiment aren't good. But they aren't definitive yet. Ghosn-onetime head of Michelin North America Inc.-is the first person ever to attempt to be the CEO of two car makers ...
Michelin to buy Oliver retread unit.(News)
Aug 06, 2007 ... Byline: Kathy McCarron Tire Business Cooper Tire & Rubber Co. will exit the retreading business in the coming months when it finalizes the sale of its Oliver Rubber Co. retread materials and equipment subsidiary to Michelin North America Inc. for a cash purchase price of $69 ...
OSHA cites Houston molder over fatal blast.(News)
Aug 06, 2007 ... Byline: Jeff Yip Federal safety authorities have cited a Houston molding company in conjunction with a March explosion that left one worker dead. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration, which investigated the March 8 accident at American Elastomer Products ...
Post-strike: Goodyear, USW give views.(Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co)
Aug 06, 2007 ... Byline: Brad Dawson It's been about seven months since the 86-day strike by more than 12,000 United Steelworkers members at 16 North American Goodyear sites ended. For some of the players involved in the strike, time has eliminated the bitterness that labor disputes ...
FTS begins recall of Chinese-made radial tires.(News)
Aug 13, 2007 ... Foreign Tire Sales Inc. on Aug. 9 began its recall of 255,000 Chinese-made radial tires that it imported into the U.S.-nearly half the number originally anticipated. The tires are defective because they lack a gum strip or have gum strips that are not large enough, FTS said. The ...
Deadline News.(Late News)(Goodyear Engineered Products merged with Industrial Specialty Company Inc)(Cabot Corp merged with Columbian Chemicals Co)
Aug 13, 2007 ... Veyance acquires fabric operation AKRON-Veyance Technologies Inc., formerly Goodyear Engineered Products, has purchased the assets of Industrial Specialty Fabrics for an undisclosed amount to strengthen its North America position in the conveyor belt industry. ...
Operating changes eminent with private equity at the wheel.(News)
Aug 13, 2007 ... Byline: David Barkholz Crain News Service Private equity ownership of auto suppliers and Chrysler L.L.C. will add urgency to operating changes needed in the domestic industry, according to manufacturing efficiency consultant Laurie Harbour-Felax. Private equity buyers ...
Commerce OKs anti-dumping probe for Chinese OTR tires.(News)
Aug 13, 2007 ... The U.S. Commerce Department will go ahead with a formal investigation into anti-dumping and countervailing duty suspicions regarding imported Chinese-made off-the-road tires, according to the United Steelworkers and Titan International Inc., which brought the petition. The ...
Conti ordered to pay health care premiums to former workers.(News)
Aug 13, 2007 ... A federal judge issued a summary judgment July 31 ordering Continental Tire North America Inc. to pay medical premiums for 2,000 retired United Steelworkers members who filed a class-action lawsuit against their employer after Continental arbitrarily cut the benefit, according to the USW. ...
PU could keep rising sea levels at bay.(News)
Aug 13, 2007 ... Byline: Richard Higgs Crain News Service Engineers are employing a new BASF A.G. polyurethane resin to help brace coastal defenses against potentially disastrous sea level rises as a result of global warming. In the first commercial test for Elastocoast, researchers ...
Sibur Russian Tyres plans restructuring.(News)(Company overview)
Aug 13, 2007 ... Byline: David Shaw Crain News Service Since gaining financial independence from its petrochemical parent last year, Sibur Russian Tyres has put in place an ambitious restructuring plan. The plan involves a number of steps including the closure of out-dated ...
Products.(water-based antistick coatings and lubricants developed by McLube Division of McGee Industries Inc.)(Brief article)
Aug 20, 2007 ... The McLube Division of McGee Industries Inc. has developed water-based antistick coatings and lubricants. The MAC-912 and MAC-964 series of antistick coatings and lubricants are clear, colorless, dry film coatings that contain no silicone oil, powder, waxes or heavy metals. They are ...
Technology demonstration.(News)
Aug 20, 2007 ... ExxonMobil Chemical put on its Elastomer University seminar program Aug. 2-3 at its Advanced Elastomers Systems location in Akron as a way to show off its technology to customers. Above, Rudy School (left) of R.T. Vanderbilt Co. Inc. talks with Dan Collins of ExxonMobil about an injection ...
MTI Global to send production of aerospace goods to Mexico.(News)
Aug 20, 2007 ... Byline: Brad Dawson Silicone foam product manufacturer MTI Global Inc. plans to move its aerospace unit production to Mexico by the end of the year, saving an expected $2.3 million in 2008. The company has based its production for the aerospace market-primarily ...
Thanks a billion; Michelin plans growth in U.S. and Mexico over next 7 years.
Aug 20, 2007 ... Byline: Brad Dawson Michelin North America Inc. plans to spend more than $1 billion to expand production capacity in the U.S. and Mexico over the next seven years, including a new plant and upgrades at several facilities. The tire maker announced Aug. 13 it will build ...
Excel buys British Vita rubber unit.(News)(Excel Polymers L.L.C. has purchased Vita-Calender a unit of British Vita)(Brief article)
Aug 20, 2007; ... Byline: Mike McNulty Excel Polymers L.L.C. has purchased Vita-Calender, a specialized rubber processing operation, from British Vita for an undisclosed amount to expand its customer base and global network of businesses. The acquisition merges Salford, England-based ...
Meetings.(News)(UTECH North America Exhibition)(Brief article)
Aug 20, 2007 ... UTECH/polyurethane conference nearing The first UTECH North America Exhibition combined with the Center for the Polyurethanes Industry's annual conference is set to take place Sept. 24-26 in Kissimmee, Fla, near Orlando. The venue will be the Gaylord Palms Resort & ...
Energy demand to grow, oil to remain key.(News)
Aug 20, 2007 ... Byline: Bruce Meyer Overall energy demand is expected to grow 60 percent globally by 2030 and energy resources are adequate to sustain such growth, but not without some large-scale investments along the way. That's the conclusion of ExxonMobil Chemical Co.'s study ...
Conti must trim auto parts after acquisition.(News)
Aug 20, 2007 ... Byline: April Wortham Automotive News After agreeing to pay $15.7 billion to buy Siemens VDO Automotive Corp., Continental A.G. faces the monumental task of deciding which pieces of its new automotive parts empire to keep and which to toss. Some choices will be ...
Best keeps nitrile gloves on the home front.(News)(Best Manufacturing Co.)
Aug 20, 2007; ... Byline: Mike McNulty Best Manufacturing Co. has remained true to its roots in the U.S. The result: it's the largest and, as far as the company can determine, the only disposable nitrile glove maker left in the country. Why did it remain in the U.S. while ...
Calendar.(Calendar)
Aug 20, 2007 ... Rubber groups Blue Ridge Rubber Group: Technical meeting, Sept. 20, Olde Beau Golf Club, Roaring Gap, N.C. (Roger Kyer, phone 336-558-4806) Brazilian Association of Rubber Technology: Third Brazilian TPE and TPV Conference, Sept. 12-14, Reboucas Convention Center, Sao ...
Columbian to add facility in Italy, expand in China.(News)(Carbon black producer Columbian Chemicals Co.)
Aug 20, 2007; ... Byline: Mike McNulty Carbon black producer Columbian Chemicals Co. has launched projects that will add a power facility in Italy and expand the firm's capacity in China. The firm also is raising prices for industrial-grade carbon black in North America. ...
Listing of latex processors in U.S. and Canada.(News)
Aug 20, 2007 ... A.K. Rubber Products Co. Inc. Elkhorn, Wis. 262-723-5470 Abbott Laboratories Ashland, Ohio 419-289-3555 Accu-Seal Rubber Inc. New Brunswick, N.J. 732-246-4333 Accusil Inc. ...
Continental taking tire advertising to the edge.(Marketing)
Aug 20, 2007 ... Byline: Vera Linsalata Tire Business Continental Tire North America Inc.'s latest push to revitalize the General brand is an ad campaign designed to fish where the fish-or mermaids-are. Running from June until December 2008, the Charlotte-based tire maker is ...
Price expectations: Synthetic up, NR down.(News)
Aug 20, 2007 ... Byline: Jack Herman Automotive News The good news for rubber processors is that weak demand nearly everywhere but Asia will cause the price of natural rubber to fall. The bad: Synthetic rubber prices still are headed in the other direction, according to observers and ...
Lord to invest $4 million in expansions at 2 plants.
Aug 20, 2007 ... Byline: Mike McNulty Lord Corp. will spend close to $4 million to build an addition at one plant and expand its operation at another site primarily because of growth in the company's aerospace and industrial sectors. The moves, which are part of the firm's five-year ...
Goodyear to expand, add factories.(News)
Aug 20, 2007 ... Byline: Mike McNulty Goodyear is moving ahead with plans to make major investments to spur future growth in North America, Europe and Asia. Included in its investment plan are modernization projects at the company's Fayetteville, N.C., and Gadsden, Ala., tire plants ...
New line.(News)(Anver Corp. has introduced a new line of vacuum suction cups)(Brief article)
Aug 20, 2007 ... Hudson, Mass.-based Anver Corp. has come out with a line of soft, but pliable, natural rubber blended vacuum suction cups designed for handling saw cut stone, plywood panels and ...
Deadline News.(Late News)(Showa Glove)(Brief article)
Aug 20, 2007 ... Tillotson to sell Best to Showa MENLO, Ga.-Tillotson Corp. plans to sell subsidiary Best Manufacturing Co. to Showa Glove of Japan for an undisclosed amount. The deal, subject to regulatory approval, includes all of Best's glove operations and subsidiaries. Once the ...
Fields of guayule; Yulex makes big strides in producing Hevea latex alternative.
Aug 20, 2007; ... Byline: Miles Moore Katrina Cornish remembers delivering a paper years ago at a conference in Baltimore on a solution to the wildfire spread of allergies to natural rubber latex. Researchers at the time were seeking a way to change the structure of traditional Hevea ...
International.
Aug 20, 2007 ... Bridgestone considers new run-flat technology TOKYO-Bridgestone Corp. is working on a tire design that could lead to runs-flats for sport-utility and similar vehicles. The design, which would enable Bridgestone to make higher aspect-ratio run-flat tires, is the firm's ...
News Digest.(Briefs)
Aug 20, 2007 ... Chemtura sells unit, factory Specialty chemicals manufacturer Chemtura Corp. has sold its organic peroxides business and Marshall, Texas, factory to German organic peroxides maker Pergan GmbH. The amount of the all-cash transaction wasn't disclosed, but proceeds will ...
Trexel technology ideal for small presses.(News)
Aug 20, 2007 ... Byline: Bill Bregar Plastics News Trexel Inc. is marketing its Series III MuCell system to makers of small-tonnage injection molding presses, and giving the Series III a smaller price tag to go with it. Engel Holding GmbH and Arburg GmbH + Co. K.G. said they will ...
China: PU key in building sector.(News)
Aug 20, 2007 ... Byline: Katherine Peavy Plastics News Producers of polyurethane foam for building construction are receiving a big push from China's government. "There is lots more work to do in terms of promoting PU in the market,'' said Li Ping, deputy chief of the technology ...
Biojoule says willow extract good for PU foam.(News)
Aug 20, 2007 ... A research group in New Zealand said it has developed natural lignin as a raw material for expanded polyurethane foam. The lignin is extracted from shrubby willow, grown by Genesis Research and Development Corp. Ltd.'s subsidiary Biojoule. Genesis said Biojoule's ...
New BFGoodrich tires show their aggressive side.(Marketing)
Aug 20, 2007 ... Byline: Dave Zielasko Michelin North America Inc. showed off two of its newest, most aggressive products recently at a land of extreme-a hot, wind-swept track outside Salt Lake City. Temperatures topped 100[degrees]F and a dry wind was blowing across the tarmac in ...
HBD/Thermoid unveils vapor hose barrier technology.(News)
Aug 20, 2007 ... Byline: Bruce Meyer HBD/Thermoid Inc. has introduced a tank truck hose that uses the firm's new hydrocarbon fuel vapor hose barrier technology. The Vapor-Loc brand hose was introduced at two industrial trade shows this spring and is expected to be the first in a ...
Michelin finds way to produce tires in N. America.(Opinion)
Aug 20, 2007 ... Tire makers that serve the North American market face contradictory needs: lower costs versus being close to the customer. In the pursuit of lower costs, manufacturers are bringing in droves of tires from Brazil, China and other Asian locales. It's no secret that the U.S. and ...
New pacts with unions to trim Dana's operating costs.(News)
Aug 20, 2007 ... A federal court judge has approved new contracts between Dana Corp. and its labor unions that cut operating costs and move the company closer to emerging from Chapter 11 bankruptcy court protection. Judge Burton R. Lifland of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District ...
High court ruling results in House approving pay bill.(News)
Aug 20, 2007 ... The House of Representatives has passed a bill designed to eliminate workplace pay discrimination that is based on a U.S. Supreme Court case involving a former Goodyear employee. Lilly Ledbetter, a retired supervisor at Goodyear's Gadsden, Ala., plant claimed an unfairly ...
House call.(News)
Aug 20, 2007 ... An on-site screw inspection is performed by a General Plastex employee, a new service offered by the designer, maker and re-manufacturer of screws, barrels, valves and components for the rubber and plastics industries. The firm said it started the on-site program ...
Response maps for peak process performance.(Technical)
Aug 20, 2007; ... Byline: Mark J. Anderson Stat-Ease Inc. To illustrate the elements of response surface methods, we present a very simple study that involves only one factor-cure temperature-and its effect on the ultimate shear strength of a rubber. The data are loosely derived from a problem ...
TPVs make strides in auto body sealing.(News)
Aug 20, 2007 ... Byline: Bruce Meyer Michael Bednarik has a poster hanging in his Akron office detailing all the weatherseals that go on a vehicle. "The nice thing about that is somewhere in the world on a car commercially every one of those seals is made in (thermoplastic ...
Fight to unite; BFS Liberian workers wait for ruling in validity of union election.(News)
Aug 20, 2007 ... Byline: Miles Moore Workers at Bridgestone/Firestone's Liberian natural rubber plantation await a ruling from Liberia's Supreme Court on whether a recent union election was valid. So are the United Steelworkers, which supports the union slate that won the election, ...
Honoring achievement.(News)(Mohan Kosamia of Church & Dwight Company Inc.)(Brief article)
Aug 20, 2007 ... ASTM International Committee D11 on Rubber presented an achievement award to Mohan Kosamia (second from left) of Church & Dwight Co. Inc. The award recognized his work as Condom Task Group chairman for 24 years, serving in the development and ...
Guayule's niche.(Opinion)
Aug 20, 2007 ... Byline: Edward Noga If there ever was an industry based on niches, it has to be the rubber business. A company can, and the vast majority do, make a living serving a very narrow market. I think one of the oldest sources of natural rubber may finally have found its ...
A sweet six months.(International)
Aug 20, 2007 ... Bridgestone hikes forecast TOKYO-Bridgestone Corp. management is predicting the firm's fiscal 2007 sales and profits will be higher than previously forecast because of the weaker yen and improved sales through the first half of the year. The company raised its ...
Kumho Petrochemical begins $40 million project.(News)
Aug 20, 2007 ... Kumho Petrochemical Co. broke ground on a 700,000-sq.-ft. SB-latex factory in Rizhao, the firm's third production base in China. The project will cost $40 million, half from Kumho Petrochemical and the rest from Shandong Jinma Industrial Group, a Rizhao-based private company ...
Recycling unit gets backing from Mel Gibson.(News)
Aug 20, 2007 ... Byline: Jennifer Mussig A Malaysian company is taking a second shot at promoting a process to devulcanize scrap tires and turn them into useful rubber, and has snagged a high-profile investor for the project-Mel Gibson. The actor and director is a financial backer in ...
Moving and growing.(News)
Aug 27, 2007 ... ContiTech Techno-Chemie has opened a $2.1 million, 53,819-sq.-ft. plant in Friedberg, Germany, to produce hose for trucks and other commercial vehicles. The company said consolidation of the truck lines ...
Deadline News.(Late News)
Aug 27, 2007 ... ITC supports Titan in fight against Chinese OTR tire imports WASHINGTON-The U.S. International Trade Commission, in a preliminary vote, has backed Titan Tire International Inc.'s effort to get duties imposed on Chinese-made off-the-road tires. The ITC ruled in a 6-0 ...
Court denies Flexsys request to reopen patent infringement suit.(News)
Aug 27, 2007 ... Byline: Miles Moore A federal appeals court has rejected Flexsys America L.P.'s bid to lift the stay on a patent infringement case, pending the outcome of the appeal of an International Trade Commission exclusionary order against one of the lawsuit's defendants. The ...
Conti won't be using Siemens name.(News)
Aug 27, 2007 ... Byline: April Wortham Crain News Service Continental A.G. is getting a lot with its $15.7 billion purchase of German rival Siemens VDO Automotive Corp., but not the Siemens name. Conti won't be able to use the Siemens moniker on products and technologies it is ...
Low-cost, foreign incentives might not be long-term, analysts warn.(News)(Brief article)
Aug 27, 2007; ... Byline: Jack Herman Crain News Service Automotive suppliers that hope to succeed in the future must understand not only the industry's global movement, but also the trends that underlie it, analysts said at a recent conference. Globalization means more than just ...
CAFE standards could lead car makers to seek more plastics.(News)
Aug 27, 2007 ... Byline: Rhoda Miel Crain News Service How the fuel economy rules debate ends up in Washington could impact the bottom line for some auto suppliers. Higher Corporate Average Fuel Economy-or CAFE-standards for U.S. vehicles will lead to more metal parts being replaced ...
Illinois takes action against Lon's Tire Recyclers.(News)
Aug 27, 2007 ... Byline: Miles Moore The state of Illinois is taking action against a Petersburg tire recycler for allegedly storing thousands of scrap tires on his property without a permit or proper safety procedures. Lonnie W. Sinclair, owner of Lon's Tire Recyclers, faces ...
Foreign firms buying American-suppliers that is.(News)
Aug 27, 2007 ... Byline: Brent Snavely Crain News Service Merger and acquisition pros for nearly two years have said foreign companies were shopping for U.S. auto suppliers, but actual deals were hard to find. That's changing. In recent months, several overseas automotive ...