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Kia & Hyundai unveil Uni Wheel
Tyres and wheels are all too often dismissed as peripheral vehicle components, so let’s hope Hyundai Motor Company and Kia Corporation will address this falsehood with their new Universal Wheel Drive System, or Uni Wheel. The vehicle makers consider Uni Wheel a “paradigm-shifting vehicle drive system” that will “revolutionise the design of future mobility devices.”
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Not competitive enough – Michelin confirms plant closures in Germany
Germany’s position as a centre of manufacturing took another blow today with the confirmation that Michelin will gradually cease production at its Karlsruhe and Trier sites, as well as the manufacture of new tyres and semi-finished products in Homburg. Michelin will also transfer its Customer Contact Center from Karlsruhe to Poland. These changes are expected to be completed by the end of 2025 and will impact a total of 1,532 employees.
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Pyrum Innovations still building second plant – but not in Homburg
Pyrum Innovations has dropped plans to build a pyrolysis tyre recycling plant at Homburg, in Germany’s Saarland – but is still confident of setting up its second facility within the originally-announced timeframe, more or less. The company has already identified a potential new location.
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Vaculug named 4th best UK manufacturing company to work for
Vaculug has been voted the 4th best Manufacturing Company to Work for in the UK by Best Companies. The latest news joins a growing list of accreditations, including the acknowledgment of Vaculug as one of the top 75 Best Mid-Sized Companies to Work for in the UK by Best Companies.
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Nexen Tire signs OE tyre development MoU
Within the framework of a Memorandum of Understanding with the Korea Expressway Corporation’s Road Traffic Research Institute, Nexen Tire intends to reduce the time and expense required to produce tyres for original equipment customers. The two partners signed the MoU on 27 November at the Research Institute’s headquarters in Dongtan, Hwaseong.
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Vaculug joins TRA
Vaculug, Europe’s largest independent retreader, joined the Tyre Recovery Association (TRA) as a full member back in September, according to the Autumn/Winter TRA newsletter, which was published at the end of November.
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Pirelli confirms top S&P Global score
Pirelli reports that it achieved a top score in sustainability with the Auto Components and Automotive sectors in S&P Global’s 2023 Corporate Sustainability Assessment. The news emerged from the results published by S&P Global, which is also the basis for inclusion in the Dow Jones Sustainability indices.
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5 more years – Continental renews Hannover 96 football partnership
Continental has extended its longstanding partnership with football club Hannover 96. The new contract runs for five years, starting with the 2023/2024 season, and is independent of the club’s league affiliation. Hannover 96 currently plays in Germany’s second division 2. Bundesliga.
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Remember This? – November 2023
Stories from the past 20 years of Tyres & Accessories: Our monthly magazine column looks back at the biggest news events from the tyre industry five, 10, 15 and 20 years ago. Click the month and year to access the digital edition of the relevant issue of the magazine from Tyres & Accessories expanding digital archive.
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Hankook adding truck & bus tyre production to European plant
With an investment of KRW 758.95 billion (£466.12 million), Hankook Tire & Technology will add truck and bus radial production to its site in Rácalmás, Hungary. The company expects the new production line to be completed by 2027, with an initial capacity to produce around 800,000 tyres annually. The expansion will create approximately 450 new jobs.
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SBTi confirms Kraiburg Austria’s goals
Stefan Mayrhofer, managing director of Kraiburg Austria, is convinced that environmental protection and sustainability awareness are “topics that we owe to future generations.” This is the reason the retreading specialists strives to act in an environmentally responsible manner, its receipt of the EMAS certificate three years ago serving as evidence of these efforts.
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UK-Canadian team wins Synthos Rubber Circularity Award
WMG at the University of Warwick in Coventry and Canada’s University of Victoria are the joint recipients of the inaugural Synthos Rubber Circularity Award, an international competition launched earlier this year to encourage cutting-edge ideas and solutions that significantly improve the environmental performance of synthetic rubber-based tyre compounds. Announcing the winners, Synthos states that the researchers impressed with their “breakthrough technology research concept” but did not elaborate on their work.
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Lower Q3 2023 sales, market share for ETRMA members
The European Tyre and Rubber Manufacturers’ Association (ETRMA) has published its members’ replacement tyre sales data for Europe during the third quarter of 2023, reporting a “significant decline across all segments” that continues the negative market trend seen in the first half of the year.
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Prinx Chengshan names Oliva as European marketing manager
David Oliva has been appointed as European marketing manager for Prinx Chengshan, the Chinese tyre manufacturer that also owns a manufacturing facility in Thailand.
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Prometeon sponsors Italy’s national football teams
Prometeon Tyre Group has signed an agreement with the Italian Football Federation (FIGC) to become the Official Tyre Partner of all Italian national football teams over a three-year period. The deal sees Prometeon partner with the men’s, women’s and junior teams for three years from 2024-2026.
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