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Rubber News - Breaking News
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The latest news from Rubber & Plastics News
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Rockwell becomes Michelin preferred supplier
CLERMONT-FERRAND, France (Feb. 6, 2012)- Michelin has signed a four-year agreement making Rockwell Automation Inc. its preferred partner for industrial automation and controls covering all of the tire makers global factories.
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China trade group forecasts 6% growth in tire production
BEIJING (Feb. 6, 2012)—China Rubber Industries Association is forecasting China's tire industry will make 483 million tires this year, and increase of about 6 percent from 2011.
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Editorial: Deciding factors in job creation go beyond tax breaks
One proposal offered by President Obama in his Jan. 24 address calls for rewarding U.S. manufacturers that keep jobs in this country, and punishing those that close American factories and/or move jobs overseas. How would that play in the rubber industry?
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Tire distributor gets 40 months in prison
OXFORD, Miss. (Feb. 6, 2012)—The Northern Mississippi federal district court has sentenced a Maryland tire distributor to 40 months in prison for defrauding one of his biggest customers.
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Workers ratify contract at Cooper Texarkana site
TEXARKANA, Ark.—By a margin of nearly eight to one, workers at Cooper Tire & Rubber Co.'s Texarkana plant have ratified a four-year labor contract offering wage increases and continued retirement, medical and life insurance benefits.
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