![Giti extends VW MQB-A0 platform OE supply with T-Cross fitment](https://www.tyrepress.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/VW-T-Cross.jpg)
Giti extends VW MQB-A0 platform OE supply with T-Cross fitment
Giti Tire will supply the GitiSynergyE1 in size 205/60R16 92H to the VW T-Cross. The T-Cross is built for the European market on the MQB-A0 small car platform in Pamplona, Spain alongside the Seat Arona Compact Crossover and VW Polo, for which the tyre manufacturer already supplies OE tyres in the same pattern.
Continue Reading2nd Algerian tyre plant: Doublestar participating in JV
Buried within the more than 134 pages of Qingdao Doublestar’s latest semi-annual report is the news that the state-owned tyre maker will extend China’s ‘one belt, one road’ strategy by working with a local partner to establish a tyre production facility in Algeria. The Chinese-language document states that its subsidiary Hong Kong Doublestar signed a joint venture agreement with El Hadj Larbi Pneumatiques during the reporting period.
Continue Reading![Hankook Tire postpones Hungary truck tyre plant](https://www.tyrepress.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Hankook-Hungary-4th-expansion-sml.jpg)
Hankook Tire postpones Hungary truck tyre plant
News reports from Hungary suggest Hankook Tire has put on hold plans to set up a truck tyre production unit at its Rácalmás plant. English-language publication the Budapest Business Journal writes that fellow business daily Világgazdaság shared this news with its readers yesterday.
Continue Reading![3 new Michelin Auto Professional centres in Scotland](https://www.tyrepress.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/111-02-Michelin-Auto-Professional-Abbotsinch-Tyres-Exhausts.jpg)
3 new Michelin Auto Professional centres in Scotland
Michelin has added three new Michelin Auto Professional (MAP) centres in Scotland. Abbotsinch Tyres & Exhausts, in Kilmarnock, Skidz, in Falkirk, and Stewartry Tyres Newton Stewart, based on the Creeside Industrial Estate in Newton Stewart, have all been added to the network. MAP advocate dealerships get access to free on-site staff training and participation in Michelin’s mystery shopper programme, among other advantages. Michelin will also audit the centres’ digital presence while imparting advice on maximising all online opportunities; MAPS can also access TyreAssist for their customers, protecting new Michelin or BFGoodrich tyres purchased with free 24/7 roadside assistance.
Continue Reading![Rubberway: Michelin & Continental team up for rubber supply chain JV](https://www.tyrepress.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/michelin-conti-jv.jpg)
Rubberway: Michelin & Continental team up for rubber supply chain JV
The natural rubber supply chain is very complex. It includes around six million farmers, 100,000 intermediaries and over 500 processing plants. To bring greater transparency to the supply chain, two ‘top-five’ tyre makers are now cooperating with a third party in a joint venture: Michelin and Continental, together with IT agricultural specialist Smag, have formed a company to further develop and deploy a technological solution for mapping sustainability practices. The client-facing portion of this technology is a smartphone app called Rubberway.
Continue Reading![GRI acquires Nortire OU](https://www.tyrepress.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/GRI-Subasinghe_tb-1.jpg)
GRI acquires Nortire OU
Sri Lanka-based speciality tyre manufacturer GRI reports that it has acquired the Estonia-based Nortire Group. Headquartered in Estonia, with a branch in Latvia and two branches in Lithuania, Nortire is a speciality tyre distributor. According to GRI, the acquisition will further expand the GRI’s global tyre service network, while attaining a significant foothold in the North European tyre market. The news follows a non-acquisition Middle East strategic partnership with Al-Dobowi in April 2019.
Continue Reading![Wegmann automotive acquires valve business from Alligator Ventilfabrik](https://www.tyrepress.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/wegmann-alligator.jpg)
Wegmann automotive acquires valve business from Alligator Ventilfabrik
Wegmann automotive, the company behind the Hofmann Power Weight and Perfect Equipment wheel balancing weight and the Hofmann Power Solutions battery bushings brands, has acquired the valve business of Alligator Ventilfabrik. Under the terms of the agreement reached between the two firms, Wegmann automotive will take ownership of Alligator sales and distribution operations for passenger car and heavy-duty truck tyre valves as well as for TPMS sensors and tools in both Europe and North America.
Continue Reading![Michelin-Continental JV not tyre related](https://www.tyrepress.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/michelin-conti-jv.jpg)
Michelin-Continental JV not tyre related
Michelin has responded to news published by Reuters yesterday regarding a joint venture with Continental and French agricultural IT services company SMAG. It confirms that the three parties will enter into a joint venture, however it will not be – as stated by Reuters – related to tyre production.
Continue ReadingTitan International postpones ITM listing
Concerns about the affect of global trade concerns and Brexit upon Europe’s financial markets have led Titan International to postpone a potential listing of its Italtractor ITM S.p.A. (ITM) business. According to company chairman Maurice Taylor, these factors have impacted the company’s ability to suitably evaluate its strategic alternatives with respect to ITM.
Continue Reading![Algeria, & then the world: Iris Tyres brings ‘competitive’ range to market](https://www.tyrepress.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/CITExpo-Iris-sml.jpg)
Algeria, & then the world: Iris Tyres brings ‘competitive’ range to market
Algeria is once again a tyre-making country. Some six years after Michelin closed its plant in Algeria, Iris Tyres has brought the country back into the game with a new plant equipped with state-of-the-art machinery. The first products in an extensive range of tyres went on sale in July, and plans are in place to extend the product portfolio over the next couple of years.
Continue Reading![Growing agri range: Goodyear tyres back on British soil](https://www.tyrepress.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Goodyear-Farm-Tires-sml.jpg)
Growing agri range: Goodyear tyres back on British soil
Grandad fitted Goodyear, your father fitted Goodyear, and now you can too, again: After being largely absent for five years, this year the Goodyear name returned to UK and European agricultural markets.
Continue Reading![Ronal presents one-piece 3D printed alloy wheel](https://www.tyrepress.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/RONAL-GROUP_SLM-Concept-Wheel-sml.jpg)
Ronal presents one-piece 3D printed alloy wheel
A world-first from the Ronal Group at the IAA motor show in Frankfurt: The alloy wheel manufacturer has presented a one-piece, 3D printed alloy wheel. Although a concept, the wheel is entirely road legal.
Continue Reading![Serbia to become PCLT tyre production hub](https://www.tyrepress.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/serbia-flag.png)
Serbia to become PCLT tyre production hub
When Toyo recently announced its intention to build a new tyre plant in Serbia it consolidated the country’s position as the leading location for new passenger car and light truck (PCLT) tyre manufacturing capacity in Europe. Toyo’s proposal follows Linglong’s decision to build its new European plant in the country and Cooper Tire’s plan to double the size of its facility there. Based on analysis of all announced capacity actions by Astutus Research (plant opening and expansion net of closures and downsizing), the Czech Republic is a distant second in terms of planned capacity additions between 2018 and 2026.
Continue Reading![Goodyear Total Mobility represents tailored, end-to-end offer for fleets](https://www.tyrepress.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/goodyear-gen2.jpg)
Goodyear Total Mobility represents tailored, end-to-end offer for fleets
The launch of the second generation Kmax and Fuelmax truck tyres provides Goodyear with opportunity to emphasise progress in digitalisation of truck tyre business It is a mark of how far the role of the truck tyre manufacturer has come in European markets that at the 2019 launch of its second generation of Fuelmax and […]
Continue Reading![Pirelli Calendar: Searching for Shakespeare’s Juliet](https://www.tyrepress.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Rosalia-sml.jpg)
Pirelli Calendar: Searching for Shakespeare’s Juliet
Back when Will Shakespeare trod the boards, all the characters in the plays he scribbled down were brought to life by male actors – even decidedly non-blokeish roles such as Juliet Capulet. Chaps need not apply for star billing in next year’s Pirelli Calendar though – although the theme for 2020 is ‘Looking for Juliet’, photographer Paolo Roversi’s shortlist of candidates pays no homage to the ‘boy player’ of old.
Continue Reading