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Velorim aims to double bicycle tyre recycling network by 2026
3rd January 2025Cannock-based Velorim, which describes its work as “the UK’s simple solution to recycling bicycle tyres and inner tubes”, is aiming to double the number of collection points it works with across the UK by 2026. With over 600 locations across the country already, the recycling service says it aims to make recycling bike tyres and inner tubes even easier for cyclists.
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Sailun Group achieves EcoVadis silver sustainability rating
3rd January 2025Sailun Group recently achieved the EcoVadis silver sustainability rating, placing the company among the top 15 per cent of businesses worldwide that participated in the evaluation. Sailun achieved bronze in 2023. The latest recognition follows the upgrade of Sailun Group’s MSCI ESG rating to "BB".
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After careful consideration, Linglong ‘refutes’ allegations as ‘fake news’
Following several reports in the German press relating to earlier allegations of worker mistreatment during the construction of Linglong’s Zrenjanin, Serbia tyre factory, which has led to truckmaker MAN’s suspension of tyre deliveries from Linglong, Linglong Inte
Continue ReadingTyres & Accessories launches new long-term analysis publication, Trends & Facts
Tyre Industry Publications, the publisher of the market-leading monthly magazine for tyre and wheel professionals, Tyres & Accessories, has produced a new special publication examining some of the long-term trends from the tyre business in detail. Trends & Facts takes a long-term view of topics such as the online tyre business, dynamics in the passenger car and light truck tyre segments, and the state of tyre manufacturing in Russia to take the temperature of the wider
Continue ReadingGerman taxpayers funding Indian tyre factory expansion
Tyre manufacturers have announced the closure of several factories within Germany in recent times, not least as a result of cost competitive competition from abroad. This has not stopped the Deutsche Investitions- und Entwicklungsgesellschaft (DEG), a development bank indirectly owned by Germany’s federal and state governments, from providing JK Tyre & Industries Ltd with a long-term loan of 30 million euros to help it expand a plant in India.
Continue ReadingMichelin: The work at the heart of the Brembo cooperation is ‘breakthrough’ technology
T&A asks Serge Lafon, President of the Business Line Automotive Original Equipment at Michelin about access and commercialisation of the technology The news that Michelin and Brembo are cooperating on smart tyre and braking technology, which already points to a 4-metre improvement in stopping performance is quite a headline-grabbing in itself. But how is that […]
Continue ReadingVredestein extends summer tyre mileage by up to 30% with new Ultrac+
Apollo Tyres will launch the new Vredestein Ultrac+ summer tyre in January 2025, with a dramatic improvement in longevity over the outgoing Ultrac. Apollo says the new tyre delivers an increase in mileage of “up to 30 per cent” and a 3 per cent improvement in rolling resistance while maintaining its predecessor’s highly rated comfort and competitive wet and dry handling capabilities. The new Vredestein Ultrac+ range will extend
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