Over the last few years, I have had the opportunity to meet with Prof. Dr Wang Meng-Jiao (“M-J”) a number of times at his offices in Qingdao. In researching this feature, I spoke with a number of his co-workers. The phrase “world’s best living rubber scientist” came up often during those conversations. Because I think
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Global Tire Industry in July
We published the July edition of our global tire industry newsletter, and distributed it to subscribers earlier today (1 July). Each corporate subscriber has the right to distribute to unlimited direct employees worldwide, so if you are interested, feel free to contact us. If your employer receives it already, we can send out a free copy.
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Global Tire Industry in June
We published the June edition of our global tire industry newsletter, and distributed it to subscribers a couple of weeks ago, at the end of May. Each corporate subscriber has the right to distribute to unlimited direct employees worldwide, so if you are interested, feel free to contact us. If your employer receives it already, we
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What to think about Michelin’s UPTIS airless tire
Michelin and GM have announced a joint development project to make an airless tire for GM’s electric vehicles, with a possible start date of 2024. The companies expect to start trials on a fleet of GM’s Chevrolet Bolt vehicles “later this Summer”, in Milford, Michigan. To underline the advanced stage of development, Michelin said, “This
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Global Tire Industry in May
We published the May edition of our global tire industry newsletter, and distributed it to subscribers yesterday, on 30 April. Each corporate subscriber has the right to distribute to unlimited direct employees worldwide, so if you are interested, feel free to contact us. If your employer receives it already, we can send out a free copy.
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China Tire report – April
This is the latest summary of our analysis of China’s tire industry. We publish a weekly report on the tire industry in China. It is the only English-language source of information for those who want to keep up-to-date with commercial, legislative, policy and recycling developments in the tire industry in China. Since this was distributed to our
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Global tire industry report-April 2019
We published the April edition of our global tire industry newsletter, and distributed it to subscribers yesterday, on 3 April. Each corporate subscriber has the right to distribute to unlimited direct employees worldwide, so if you are interested, feel free to contact us. If your employer receives it already, we can send out a free copy.
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China Tire Industry report – March
This is the latest summary of our analysis of China’s tire industry. We publish a weekly report on the tire industry in China. It is the only English-language source of information for those who want to keep up-to-date with commercial, legislative, policy and recycling developments in the tire industry in China. Since this was distributed to our
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Thoughts from Tire Tech 2019
For this column, I thought I’d put down some thoughts about the Tire Technology Expo held last week in Hanover. Tire Tech is, by common agreement, the best meeting anywhere in the world for the tire development and manufacturing communities. For those who do not visit regularly, I should explain that there are a couple
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Global Tire Industry Intelligence – March issue
We published the March edition of our global tire industry newsletter, and distributed it to subscribers a few days ago, on 28 February. Each subscriber has the right to distribute to unlimited direct employees worldwide, so if you are interested, feel free to contact us. If your employer receives it already, we can send out a
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