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Kyoto Japan, the swiss-Japanese tyre and retail brand with a distribution centre in the UK
Kyoto, Japan is clearly a place in the land of the rising sun. But what about the tyre brand of the same name? Kyoto Japan the tyre brand is a Japanese-Swiss group of companies specialized in design, manufacture and marketing of Kyoto Japan tyres, tubes, batteries and lubricants.
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Brit European extends Prometeon Tyre Group contract
Cheshire-based logistics provider Brit European has extended its long-standing relationship with Prometeon Tyre Group with the renewal of its 12-month rolling Pay-as-You-Go contract, which includes Prometeon’s ‘PRO Management’ central billing and tyre management tool. This agreement covers Brit European’s entire fleet of 162 tractor units and rigids, 201 trailers, and a mix of cars and vans. Prometeon supplies Brit European with its latest Pirelli Serie02 tyre products.
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Falken partners handball European championship
Falken Tyres will partner the Mens European Mens Handball Championship (EHF EURO 2024) for the second successive year. The 65-match competition takes place on 10-28 January in six venues across Germany – the first time the country has hosted the competition. Handball enjoys great popularity in continental Europe, where Falken will capitalise on the prominence brought by naming rights as an official partner of the top-level competition. The tyre manufacturer is also running a competition online to win two pairs of VIP hospitality tickets to the 22 January round at Cologne’s Lanxess Arena.
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Michelin, Rockwell Automation bolster manufacturing digitalisation collaboration
Rockwell Automation, Inc., the world’s largest company dedicated to industrial automation and digital transformation, has strengthened its collaboration with Michelin. This reinforced relationship focuses on digital innovation across Michelin’s manufacturing processes and builds upon more than three decades of collaborative history.
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Insolvency proceedings commence for Superior Industries Production Germany
The self-administration order in place during insolvency proceedings for Superior Industries Production Germany GmbH, represented by managing directors Sven Damm and Maximilian Funk, has been cancelled. Insolvency proceedings for the wheel manufacturer opened on 1 December.
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Pirelli opens driving simulator at Virtual Development Centre
Pirelli has added a new driving simulator at its Virtual Development Centre (VDC) in Breuberg, Hesse. The latest generation of driving simulators have become an important tool for tyre manufacturers, reducing the number of physical prototype cycles required for the development of new products. Pirelli says the VDC and static driving simulator underline its innovation leadership, combining high-tech simulation, artificial intelligence, and expert engineering. Pirelli identified the VDC, which enables the premium tyre manufacturer to develop and test its products virtually, as a signifier of its commitment to investing in local production in Germany, contextualised by other premium manufacturer’s recent announcements of the planned closure of tyre production facilities in the country. Pirelli’s Breuberg plant employs around 2,500 people, including 250 development engineers.
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Continental launches myVDO information portal for transport logistics
Continental has launched two new channels for its transport logistics customers. It is combining its services for transport logistics under the VDO brand with myVDO, a source of information, services and assistance with a focus on compliance. The technology firm has recruited active trucker Olli Gleinert as a brand ambassador. Gleinert will explain the new smart tachograph (2nd version), the VDO DTCO 4.1 to fellow drivers and discuss the challenges of the EU Mobility Package I.
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Infineon, POLYN collaborate on advanced tyre monitoring products
Infineon Technologies and POLYN Technology have unveiled a new collaboration to produce the next generation of tyre monitoring products. As a result of the collaboration, Infineon will provide new generation TPMS sensors with tyre vibration signal detection, leveraging POLYN’s NFE for vibration data pre-processing at the sensor. The collaboration specifically targets the aftermarket and fleet segments, new data-as-a-service business models, and anticipates autonomous cars.
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Nokian Tyres retains Dow Jones Sustainability Europe indexing
Nokian Tyres has retained its pace in the Dow Jones Sustainability Europe Index of the most sustainable listed companies in Europe. The manufacturer’s sustainability plan includes four key sustainability goals: reducing CO2 emissions in line with the company’s four science-based targets, increasing the share of either recycled or renewable raw materials in tyres, securing safer and better work and improving the sustainability of the supply chain.
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Falken Tire Europe ‘adjusting prices’ in 2024
Falken Tire Europe has announced its intention to adjust Falken and Sumitomo brand tyre prices effective at the beginning of 2024. The “adjustments” will affect Falken summer and all-season tyres for cars, SUVs, vans, light trucks, and trucks and trailers, while Sumitomo-brand summer car and van tyres will also be adjusted. Winter tyre prices will not be adjusted. The manufacturer has not yet released detailed information of the proportion or direction of the adjustments. Additionally, Falken’s UK representatives and exclusive distributor, the Sumitomo-owned Micheldever Tyre Services, told Tyres & Accessories that it was yet to confirm any new pricing details affecting the UK market.
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Giti Tire signs European ice hockey partnerships
Giti Tire will continue its support for European ice hockey into 2024. The manufacturer’s GT Radial brand will continue to be associated with the Champions Hockey League (CHL) as official tyre partner, and with top-flight Czech Republic team, BK Mladá Boleslav, for the 2023/24 season. Giti European marketing director Stefan Brohs said the company’s “marketing metrics show an increase in European brand awareness through our ice hockey partnerships.”
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MERTC joins CEN working group
Machinery manufacturer Mesnac reports that its Mesnac European Research and Technical Centre (MERTC) recently “achieved a significant milestone” by becoming a member of the European Committee for Standardization’s (CEN) Tyre Curing Presses working group. According to the company, this membership not only “highlights the fruitful partnership between the Chinese and Slovak teams” at MERTC but also positions the Slovakia-based operation as “a contributor to the standard-setting process.”
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Global Automotive Investments Holding acquires Italy’s Tagliabue Gomme
Global Automotive Investments Holding BV is taking another step in expanding its international activities by acquiring Italian tyre distributor Tagliabue Gomme Gross Srl. The parties have come to an agreement for a takeover of the shares and expect the acquisition to be completed by mid-February 2024 at the latest.
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Bekaert commences certified recycled steel deliveries
Steel wire firm Bekaert shares that it has obtained the first third-party certificates for its tyre reinforcement with high recycled steel content and has delivered the initial batches of this steel to Bridgestone Corporation. According to the company, high recycled content halves the CO2 footprint of its product, and such certification helps meet demand from customers and end markets while addressing a “critical challenge in the industry.”
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Nexen Tire brings virtual reality into design process
Nexen Tire lays claim to being the first Korean tyre maker to utilise virtual reality (VR) in the product development process. To strengthen its digital design process capabilities, the tyre maker has developed a VR design simulation system at the Nexen Central Research Institute in Seoul. It says this VR design review system allows users to “appreciate the scale of real tyres in a virtual space.”
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