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Giti Tire Motorsport and Team Oliver Racing enjoyed another successful season in the British Truck Racing Championship (BTRC) with Stuart Oliver securing a top three finish in the standings. The manufacturer also maintained its role as Official Partner and Exclusive Tyre Supplier for 2023, with all trucks racing on the Giti Race-Tuned v1 competition truck tyres in size 315/70R22.5.
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Goodyear and Michelin are pruning their operations in Germany in the face of rising energy costs and increased competition from budget brands, and the local rubber industry association didn’t paint a rosy picture of the tyre-making future when it met in November, but one manufacturer has expressed commitment to its German manufacturing site. Pirelli says it has “no plans” to end production at its Breuberg plant.
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Driving home for Christmas is more than an indispensable addition to the festive season playlist, it is something many of us will soon do. That worries Bridgestone after finding out that more than half the motorists making the drive home fail to recognise an ‘extremely serious’ risk associated with illegal tyre usage. Research carried out on Bridgestone’s behalf suggests that 54% of motorists don’t regard driving on illegal tyres as potentially life threatening.
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Synthetic rubber producer Synthos has announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with OMV, an Austrian multinational integrated oil, gas, and petrochemicals company. Under the MOU, the two firms will cooperate on the long-term supply of sustainable raw materials, with a focus on sustainable butadiene for synthetic rubber used in tyre manufacturing.
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ATS Euromaster has launched a new radio advertising campaign that focuses on the consequences of not turning to a professional to meet both fleet and personal car care needs this winter. This is ATS Euromaster’s first ad campaign since 2017.
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An investor has been found for insolvent wheel manufacturer BBS Automotive GmbH. The insolvency administrator handling the case reports that a firm called ISHManagementServices GmbH is planning to extensively invest in the Schiltach, Germany-based business. ISH is backed by İş Global Teknik İnşaat A.S., a family-owned holding group from Turkey.
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Tyre makers often refer to the ‘race to road’ technology transfer when talking about motorsport engagements, but ‘race to loading bay’ is something that perhaps only Continental can claim bragging rights for. The tyre maker is using carbon black from recycled racing tyres in its production of solid tyres.
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Hyundai Motor and Kia have been busy of late. In addition to announcing their new Universal Wheel Drive System, the vehicle makers say they’ve developed a new snow chain-integrated tyre technology that eliminates the need to fit a vehicle with snow chains. The technology uses shape memory alloy modules located inside the wheel and tyre that protrude to act as a ‘snow chain’ when an electrical signal is received.
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We’re not yet sure whether it will come to the UK, but Yokohama Off-Highway Tires (YOHT) has presented a new tyre, the Alliance 373 VibroFarm. The off-highway specialist developed this tyre for tractors fitted with forward-mounted harvesters and employed in applications such as olive, pistachio and grape harvesting.
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When Kumho Tire recently shared news about its tyre made from 80 per cent sustainable materials, we couldn’t help but notice that the accompanying artwork featured a different company logo than the one in use since Doublestar acquired the company. The tyre maker says this new logo is “designed to represent modernity, strength and commitment to the future,” but it also places further distance between the brand and former parent company the Kumho Asiana Group.
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Wolfgang Reitzle, now aged 74, planned to step down as chairman of the Continental AG Supervisory Board when his current tenure concludes following the company’s 2024 Annual Shareholders’ Meeting. However, German financial publication Wirtschaftswoche writes that Reitzle will once again stand for election to the Supervisory Board at next April’s meeting, albeit only for a two-year term of office.
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The European Commission’s Joint Research Centre listed tyres as a priority product in its preliminary study for a new regulation that will mandate the Commission to develop secondary legislation on specific product groups. The European Parliament and Council reached a provisional agreement on this regulation last week. If confirmed, its inclusion of tyres “will reinforce industry’s long-standing commitment to make its products more sustainable and contribute to the European Union’s circular economy goals.”
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After plans to sell its entire network in Demark to NDI Group fell through earlier this year, Euromaster Group sold nine of its branches to Super Dæk Service. Under a separate agreement, the Michelin-owned company is transferring its remaining activities and employees to Vulkan Group ApS. It expects to finalise the deal on 1 January 2024.
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Continental is supplying its ContiRaceAttack 2 as an original equipment tyre for what is billed as the world’s lightest and most powerful crossover bike, the new BMW M 1000 XR. It will wear the front tyre in 120/70 and the rear in 200/55 – both in combination with the standard 17-inch forged aluminium and with the optional M carbon wheels.
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Michelin North America is the proud recipient of a Caterpillar Supplier Excellence Award 2023. The tyre maker was one of five companies honoured in the Construction Industries category, and Michelin comments that the award demonstrates its “excellence in meeting customer commitments.”
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