4 Tyre Asia April/May 2018
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Perspective
Carbon black crisis looms
The world carbon black supply-demand balance is getting
tight. By next year, that tightness is likely to move to
shortages and allocations, observes David Shaw
Time for change in the rubber industry?
Ali Hines of Global Witness on industrial rubber
expansion’s recent devastating impacts on indigenous
communities and forests
Management
Recruitment and retaining talent
Challenge of diversification
Zeppelin, Germany-
based global leader
in Plant Engineering,
and Smart Controls,
India-based global
Digitalisation Solutions
provider, have become
partners in their
march towards the
future of Industrie 4.
innovations. While
Zeppelin’s focus is
on mechanical and
process engineering
and design, Smart
Controls’ experience
is in automation and
digitalisation
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Cover Story
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Editorial
The Big Bike Boom
News Scan
Letters
Spotlight
People in the news
Straight talk
European tyre market: One rule for all
European Tyre and Rubber Manufacturers’ Association’s
new President Franco Annunziato on the trends in auto
sector, regulations and changing consumer behavior
Focus
Growth in volume, value to continue
Art Mayer, author of Smithers Rapra’s The Future of
Global Tires to 2022, says the highly diversified global tyre
industry valued at $223 billion in 2017 is set to see further
growth
India on the cusp of EV revolution
An electric vehicle revolution is waiting to happen in
India, which has already announced phasing out of petrol
and diesel cars by 2031, says Puneet Gupta, Associate
Director, Automotive Forecasting at IHS Markit