German rubber

According to a survey recently released by the Association WDK, German rubber industry revenues topped 10.5 billion euros in 2010, a 14% increase with respect to 2009. This shows a strong recovery, approaching the record year 2008, led by a rebound in technical articles, while the trend in tyres remained substantially flat.
The domestic market showed a relatively consistent and balanced recovery, while there was a strong dichotomy in sales abroad, where tyres fell by 15% and other rubber articles increased by a third.
Tyre production exceeded 60 million units (including one million retreads), versus almost 55 in 2009.