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...Sumitomo retained the rights to the brand in Japan, and also supplies Dunlop tyres in North America for new cars made by Japanese automakers while Goodyear furnishes tyres for vehicles made by non-Japanese...
...The British retailer said it had sold the label known for its Green Flash trainers to Japan’s Sumitomo Rubber Industries for $137.5m, in a move it said was in line with its ambition to become the “Selfridges...
...Britain’s resurgent motor industry was dealt a blow on Thursday as Goodyear said it would close its rubber factory in Wolverhampton, severing the UK’s historic links with tyremaking....
...In June this year Goodyear, which bought the Dunlop car tyre brand in 1999, announced it was closing its last UK factory at Wolverhampton, where it mixed the rubber, chemicals and silicates to create the...
...tyre business is acquired by Japan’s Sumitomo group, its former subsidiary 1999 US group Goodyear and Sumitomo form a global alliance that sees Goodyear take control of Dunlop 2006 Dunlop ends the production...
...and Dunlop....
...Licensed by Charles Goodyear himself, this factory – which employed as many as 1,000 people during the second world war – was one of the most important developments in the British rubber industry....
...Gucci and Chanel first embraced the rubber boot in the mid-1990s, and out went the Dunlop greens and blacks of childhood – colours devised in 1852 when Charles Goodyear invented the vulcanization process...
...The company, which has embarked on a restructuring plan last September, said it began talks with unions to shut down its Goodyear Dunlop plant in Washington, UK, which has 585 staff....
...And despite an already quadrupled rise in the price of natural rubber over the past few years that, too, is rising – largely a function of soaring demand from China....
...Michelin, Goodyear, Yokohama Rubber, Sumitomo, and Kumho Tires of South Korea are also either already producing or are looking to build new facilities in China....
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