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Goodyear Farm Tires podcast celebrates Cheshire farming family
12th March 2025Cheshire farming family Dennis and Rachael Hughes, along with their children Andrew Rutter and Emma Jones, are the latest guests on Goodyear Farm Tires’ Talking Crop podcast. The family runs Clayhanger Hall Farm between Crewe and Haslington, which has been owned by their family since 1923. They are the third UK family to feature the new podcast, launched by Goodyear Farm Tires to celebrate farming families across the UK.
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Remember This? March 2025
11th March 2025Our monthly magazine column looks back at the biggest news events from the tyre industry five, 10, 15 and 20 years ago. The March 2025 edition looks back to March issues from 2004, 2009, 2014, and 2019 for some of the biggest tyre industry news of those months. Click the month and year to access the digital edition of the relevant issue of the magazine from Tyres & Accessories’ expanding digital archive. March 2020... Aeolus produced “the largest engineering radial tyre” in the company’s history. The Aeolus 57 inch 46/90R57 AG01 earthmover radial tyre was developed for use on 220 tonne heavy-duty mine dump trucks.
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Even Lego is making tyres from sustainable materials
We all know that world-leading tyremakers like Bridgestone and Michelin generate the most turnover from tyres, but did you know that Lego make the most tyres by volume? Pub-quiz winning knowledge aside, like the global market leaders, the simultaneously largest and smallest tyre manufacturer in the world (Lego Group) has said it will move to improve its sustainability and – for its part – is moving to make tyres from recycled fishing nets, ropes, and engine oil.
Continue ReadingHankook iON Evo wins AutoBild electric vehicle tyre test
AutoBild has made the Hankook iON Evo the top product in its electric vehicle test. The winner of the 2024 WhatTyre Tyre of the Year and Electric Car Tyre of the Year impressed the German motoring magazine’s independent testers with its all-round abilities, notably matching Continental’s PremiumContact 7 at the top of the table in wet performance. It was one of two tyres developed specifically for EVs included in the test, the other being Falken’s E.Ziex, which distinguished itself particu
Continue ReadingImportant milestone in our renewed future journey – Nokian Tyres debuts Seasonproof 2
Russia’s attack on Ukraine in February 2022 almost certainly affected Nokian Tyres more than any other tyre maker. The firm manufactured 80 per cent of all its car tyres in its factory in Vsevolozhsk, capacity that couldn’t be replaced overnight. After selling the plant near St Petersburg to Russian oil and gas company Tatneft for a paltry 286 million euros, the Finnish company set about starting anew in the region. In September 2024, Nokian Tyres opened an entirely new plant in Oradea, Roma
Continue ReadingTyrepress sites offer powerful platform for global tyre business
With 1.5 million users from 232 territories in the last calendar year, Tyrepress publisher Tyre Industry Publications offers a truly global and independent news and analysis platform for the tyre, servicing and aftermarket business. Figures from Google Analytics demonstrate that Tyrepress, its Chinese-language business news site Tyrepress China, and consumer tyre advice website WhatTyre, together offer a substantial and unique service for readers and advertisers alike.
Continue ReadingSerbia CV tyre import share surges as local production benefits help it into top 5 – Astutus Research
This time last year, Tyres & Accessories reflected on the changes witnessed in the sources of commercial vehicle tyre imports into the 27 countries of the European Union and the United Kingdom (EU27+UK) since the EU’s tariffs regime and the change accelerant of the Covid pandemic. In 2017, China was supplying 65 per cent of all imports in this market, which at that point measured a little more than 7 million units. With Turkey the source of around 10 per cent, and Korea and Japan supplying aro
Continue ReadingEven Lego is making tyres from sustainable materials
We all know that world-leading tyremakers like Bridgestone and Michelin generate the most turnover from tyres, but did you know that Lego make the most tyres by volume? Pub-quiz winning knowledge aside, like the global market leaders, the simultaneously largest and smallest tyre manufacturer in the world (Lego Group) has said it will move to improve its sustainability and – for its part – is moving to make tyres from recycled fishing nets, ropes, and engine oil.
Continue ReadingHankook iON Evo wins AutoBild electric vehicle tyre test
AutoBild has made the Hankook iON Evo the top product in its electric vehicle test. The winner of the 2024 WhatTyre Tyre of the Year and Electric Car Tyre of the Year impressed the German motoring magazine’s independent testers with its all-round abilities, notably matching Continental’s PremiumContact 7 at the top of the table in wet performance. It was one of two tyres developed specifically for EVs included in the test, the other being Falken’s E.Ziex, which distinguished itself particu
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