New Continental Tires websites
Continental’s Tires Group Sector has completely redesigned its global and country-specific websites. The international site can be accessed at www.continental-tires.com while UK-based readers can reach the local site directly via www.continental-tyres.co.uk.
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Rimstock Ltd enters administration
The UK’s last remaining wheel manufacturer, Rimstock Limited, has entered administration. Chris Pole and Ryan Grant from Interpath Advisory were appointed Joint Administrators of Rimstock Limited on 5 July 2023. There have been no redundancies amongst the company’s 74 staff while options are explored.
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Kumho becomes Official Tire Partner of AC Milan
Kumho Tire has become the Official Tire Partner of AC Milan in a new long-term partnership in which the South Korean manufacturer becomes one of the club’s Rossoneri Premium Partners. Kumho is replacing its compatriot Nexen, which previously had a tyre partnership with the august club. All three of South Korea’s global tyre manufacturers, the largest being Hankook, have utilised the marketing opportunities offered by elite-level football to bolster their brand recognition and premiumisation strategies in Europe and beyond. Demonstrating its potential influence, the Milanese club claims “500 million fans worldwide.”
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Pirelli buys Hevea-Tec, Brazil’s biggest natural rubber processor
Pirelli signed an agreement to acquire 100 per cent of Hevea-Tec, the largest independent processor of natural rubber in Brazil, for “around 21 million euros”. Following regulatory approval, the deal is expected to close by the end of 2023. Pirelli reports that the acquisition will not impact the 2023 net financial position target of around 2.35 billion euro.
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Sumitomo Rubber Fact Book
Sumitomo Rubber Group, Japan-headquartered manufacturer of the Falken tyre brand, has published its 2022 annual report. Within the 49 pages of the Fact Book 2022 the company reports its performance in the 2022 financial year – a 58% year-on-year drop in profit despite higher sales revenue – as well as information about its operations around the world, including in the UK.
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Continental publishes fleet white paper
Anyone interested in learning more about the Continental Tires portfolio of solutions for fleet management in the passenger car, bus, van and truck segments can now download information on the subject.
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Repairify gains 14001 Environmental Certification
Repairify has been awarded ISO 14001 for its Luton and Peterlee offices. It is the first company within the Repairify Inc group to achieve the accreditation for its environmental management system. Repairify met the required certification by ensuring its UK sites are compliant with specific environmental criteria and demonstrated strict monitoring processes and awareness of environmental policies. These include effective waste management, battery containment, spillage kits, energy usage, and fire regulations.
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Relive the Nürburgring 24h Race with Falken
Armchair racers can experience the thrills of competing at this year’s Nürburgring 24h Race thanks to Falken Tyre and a new video on the brand’s YouTube channel. In ‘A Monument to the Art of Racing’, Falken distils hours of action into less than three minutes.
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ETRMA calls for ‘sectoral regulation’ following Data Act agreement
The European Parliament and Member States have come to an agreement relating to the Data Act. The Data Act is legislation designed to make a competitive data market, opening opportunities for data-driven innovation. The European Tyre & Rubber Manufacturers’ Association (ETRMA) welcomed the agreement.
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Bridgestone publishes integrated report
Those wishing to gain a better understanding of Bridgestone Corporation’s initiatives for enhancing corporate value over the medium to long term can find the needed information in the new Bridgestone 3.0 Journey 2023 Integrated Report. This document outlines changes made since 2020 and provides an update on transformational progress in the run-up to the company’s 100th anniversary in 2031.
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Altrad’s 1,000 van fleet to roll out Michelin Connected Fleet
Support services provider Altrad will roll out Michelin Connected Fleet’s connected management services across its 1,000-strong fleet of vans over the next year. The company says it will use the solutions and insights to improve driver behaviour, help reduce accident rates and assist in the transition to electric vehicles. It also wants to make its operations more cost-effective, safer and more sustainable.
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Germany: Union will fight Goodyear job cuts “with everything we have”
Opposition is building against planned job cuts at the Goodyear plant in Fulda, Germany. The tyre maker announced at the start of June that it would cut about half of the current 1,150 jobs at the Fulda site, and the local Goodyear works council has now invited the workforce in Fulda and other Goodyear sites in Germany to demonstrate against the job cuts in front of the factory gate next Monday afternoon. A non-public works meeting is also scheduled to take place within the plant that day, as employee union IGBCE writes in a recent press release in which it threatens Goodyear with a “fight”.
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European locations feature in GCEI’s ELT pyrolysis plans
US-based waste-to-energy firm Global Clean Energy, Inc. (GCEI) reports that its Pyrolysis division has selected three European and ten domestic locations where pyrolysis facilities for processing end-of-life tyres into oil, recovered carbon black and steel can be built on a profitable basis. News of these proposed facilities follows the company’s decision not to initiate operations at another pyrolysis plant.
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Spurs legends aplenty at Kumho five-a-side tournament
An annual five-a-side football tournament involving its customers and legends of the beautiful game is one of the many benefits of Kumho Tyre’s long-term partnership with Tottenham Hotspur. This year’s money-can’t-buy experience saw eight teams battling for glory at the Club’s Training Centre in Hotspur Way, with players travelling from across the UK and as far afield as the North of Scotland to participate.
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Tour de France a platform for Continental safety & sustainability
Continental returns to the Tour de France this year as a main sponsor, and in addition to supplying six of the participating teams with bicycle tyres, the brand is also equipping support vehicles with PremiumContact 6 and EcoContact 6 tyres. All tyres fitted to support vehicles feature ContiRe.Tex technology.
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