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Deruibotire Targets 24 Million Tyres Produced in 2011

Deruibotire (or Shandong Deribao Tire Co, Ltd), a tyre-maker in Guangrao County, a region of China’s Shandong Province has big new production plans in the offing in 2011. Visiting Brityrex 2010 in Manchester with a Chinese delegation, the company’s president Yuan Tingshu told Tyres & Accessories that, while the company is currently producing 3 million radial tyres per year, it is developing a production line to produce 24 million units in 2011.

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6th October 2010 by
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Guangrao County Delegation Visits Brityrex

Brityrex 2010 attracted a group of visitors from Shandong Province’s Guangrao County, which met with Tyres & Accessories on the Tuesday evening in Manchester’s Renaissance Hotel off Deansgate. The delegation included the president of Deruibotire (also known as Shandong Deribao Tire Co Ltd) Yuan Tingshu; Guangrao Shandong vice county magistrate Li Jianjun; and Bureau of Commerce of Guangrao County director and party secretary Zhu Hanqing. The delegation gave a presentation on the strengths of Guangrao County – a location described by Li as “an economic powerhouse within Shandong Province” and one of China’s major tyre and automotive accessory producing regions, as well as the host of China (Guangrao) International Rubber Tire & Auto Accessory Exhibition (ChinaGRTAE), which is due to be staged for the second time in 2011. Along with Tyres & Accessories and other representatives of the UK tyre trade, the delegation met with the NTDA’s Richard Edy and Peter Gaster, also of UK wholesaler Kings Road Tyres.

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6th October 2010 by

Interview: Retreading Key to Dunlop Aircraft Tyres Global Expansion

In its centenary year, Dunlop Aircraft Tyres is part of the way through an expansion plan designed to double the size of the company in terms of new tyres made. With a view to achieving this, the company has set up a joint venture in China with the Hong Kong Aircraft Engineering Company, named Dunlop Taikoo. Before the recession hit the world’s economies, Dunlop AT had planned to set up a similar facility to cater to the North American market; plans that are still very much at the forefront of the current expansion strategy. It has also recently purchased tyre-making and testing equipment from Yokohama Rubber following the Japanese manufacturer’s decision to withdraw from aircraft tyre production at the end of March 2009. The purchase and installation of the equipment at Dunlop’s Fort Dunlop plant has enabled the Birmingham-based company almost immediate access to the Boeing 777 market for example, an aircraft used heavily in domestic flights.

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17th August 2010 by
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Tyre Killer Film Screens at Cannes

You may remember a February report from tyrepress.com drawing your attention to a new serial killer movie named Rubber, and starring a sentient tyre as its antagonist (see ‘Mr Oizo Returns with Slasher Flick Starring Tyre’, or click the Related News link below). While tyrepress.com then described the chance of it appearing on British screens as “unlikely”, the film has garnered enough support to be shown in the Critic’s Choice programme of the world’s most (in-)famous film festival in Cannes, France. You can see the (beautifully photographed) trailer below the full version of this story in the subscriber area.

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20th May 2010 by
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Tendulkar Closes MRF Innings after Decade at Crease

Indian cricketing icon, Sachin Tendulkar has left the MRF dressing room, following ten years with the tyre-maker and sports equipment manufacturer. During this time, Tendulkar spent weeks at the crease, helping spread brand awareness by carrying MRF’s logo on the front of his perfectly straight bat. The Little Master will now promote equipment for Adidas, while relative – though impressive – new-boy Gautam Gambhir steps into the Sachin-shaped hole with MRF.

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18th September 2009 by
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Exclusive Brands Account for 11% UK Car Tyre Market

GfK data exclusively seen by Tyres & Accessories shows that sales of exclusive brands account for 10.4 per cent of the 2007 UK car tyre replacement market. Based on the results of GfK’s ongoing research, this means 2.62 million of these tyres were sold in the market last year. GfK defines exclusive brands from the retail perspective, meaning tyres that are only available from one clear retail network such as Kwik-Fit’s Arrowspeed brand or ATS’s Riken.

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7th August 2008 by

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