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Team Harwick Standard was awarded first place in the 2022 Huntington Towpath Century Ride fundraiser for groups of five and up and raised $14,669 to help benefit the continued development, maintenance, and enhancement of the Ohio & Erie Canal Towpath Trail

Hallstar, a specialty chemical company servicing both the industrial and beauty markets, has agreed to acquire LANXESS’ ester manufacturing facility in Greensboro, NC.

Cryoco LLC is planning its 40th Annual Cryogenic Summer Course, to he held August 1-5 at the Colorado School of Mines in Golden, CO.

The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company released its annual report on corporate responsibility performance. Despite the challenges from the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the report summarizes the company’s actions in 2020 that demonstrate its continued commitment to ethical and sustainable processes, materials and programs.

KraussMaffei appointed Jörg Bremer as chief financial officer (CFO) of the KraussMaffei Group and the Shanghai-listed KraussMaffei Company Limited (KMCL), effective July 1, 2021. Bremer will also become a member of the KraussMaffei Group management board.

Cooper Tire & Rubber Company announced that five recent high school graduates have been selected to receive scholarships to pursue higher education. The Roy V. Armes Scholarship, a renewable scholarship which provides up to $5,000 over the next four years, was awarded to one student, and Cooper Centennial Scholarships, in the amount of $1,000 each, were awarded to five students. This year, for the first time, one student won both the Roy V. Armes and Cooper Centennial Scholarship.

The Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works voted unanimously to advance the Surface Transportation Reauthorization Act of 2021. The bill, which will provide historic levels of funding to the country’s aging surface infrastructure, includes several provisions that will help advance research and integration of technologies derived from scrap tire rubber into future infrastructure projects.

With the summer travel season starting this week, a survey conducted by Bridgestone Americas (Bridgestone) reveals more than half of Americans plan to travel only by car this summer to reach their vacation destinations. Nearly four in five respondents said they feel safer in a car than on a plane, and nearly one-third said they plan to travel more than 500 miles by car this summer.