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Michelin announced its full-year financial results for 2025, reporting solid performance amid a challenging global economic environment. The Group achieved significant cash flow generation, strengthened its balance sheet, and continued to advance its long-term strategic priorities under the Michelin in Motion 2030 plan. Michelin delivered €2.9 billion in segment operating income in 2025 and generated strong free cash flow, reinforcing its financial resilience and strategic positioning.

Freudenberg Performance Materials (Freudenberg) is returning to the Wire trade fair in Düsseldorf, Germany, after a gap of several years. The experts from the world’s leading supplier of technical textiles are looking forward to presenting their comprehensive range of high-performance tapes for power, data, and specialty cables to visitors at the trade fair and discussing solutions with them at stand D19 in Hall 13 from April 13-17.

BFGoodrich is introducing 12 new sizes of the BFGoodrich All-Terrain T/A KO3 tire – the perfect way to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the brand’s Radial All-Terrain T/A tire.

The Radial All-Terrain T/A revolutionized off-road tires and set the stage for the all-terrain tire industry boom. Evolutions of the tire brought about the iconic KO tire line, leading to the KO3 tire that was introduced on May 1, 2024. The final major phase of the launch will come in May 2026.

Lummus Technology and Sumitomo Chemical announced the commercial availability of their highly-efficient Polymethyl Methacrylate Chemical Recycling (PMMA-CR) technology. This builds on the strategic partnership between Lummus and Sumitomo Chemical, first announced in May 2024, to co-develop and commercialize technologies that support circularity and carbon-neutral society across the petrochemical value chain.

The Hoover Institution’s Technology Policy Accelerator program has been awarded a $2.5 million grant from the Hewlett Foundation to launch the Tech Futures Lab, an initiative designed to better anticipate potential strategic technological surprises and to help the United States strengthen resilience through improved planning and risk management.

DUNLOP announced that they have begun supplying the DUNLOP “SP SPORT MAXX 060” and “e. SPORT MAXX” tires for use as factory standard tires on the new “C-HR+,” which was launched in Europe on December 2025.

Cranston, RI – Mearthane Products Corp. announced it has completed the acquisition of the industrial composites operations of Axillon Aerospace,