Rubber Asia to honour ‘outstanding contributors’ at Kochi conference, summit
Rubber Asia has announced it will honour “those who have made outstanding contributions to the rubber industry” at the Asian Latex Conference (ALC) 2015 and India Rubber Summit & Dinner (IRSD) 2015. The two events are organised on consecutive days on 10, 11 (ALC), and 12 (IRSD) September in Kochi, India.
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ZC Rubber plans additional truck tyre line at Thai plant
On 29 June ZC Rubber Group hosted the grand opening ceremony of ZC Rubber Thailand, the leading Chinese manufacturers’ first overseas manufacturing subsidiary, located in Rayong, Thailand. At the same time the company’s top executives took the opportunity to announce the foundation of new TBR production line in order to meet ”the quickly increasing demand on medium and heavy truck tyres from Southeast Asia and South Asia. ZC Rubber will keep on the globalization strategy for a better future.”
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End of the line for Respa
There’s been no happy ending in the insolvency proceedings related to German retreader Respa. Our sister publication Neue Reifenzeitung reports insolvency administrator Elisabeth Roggenhofer as confirming the permanent closure of the Respa retreading operation in Passau. The 19 employees at the Respa GmbH retreading facility have received their notice of termination.
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Gajah Tunggal looks to the USA for growth
Although sales at PT Gajah Tunggal Tbk dipped 3.9 per cent (to Rp 3,075 billion, or £146.4 million) in the first quarter of 2015, this decline was attributed to challenges in the domestic market. The Indonesian tyre maker speaks of strong export market performance, and company president director Christopher Chan Siew Choong confirmed this focus at Gajah Tunggal’s annual and extraordinary meeting of shareholders on 29 June. In particular, he indicated that the USA shows particular potential.
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Electricity from tyres could keep electric vehicles running 10% longer
What’s a nanogenerator? It is, we are told, a device or technology that converts mechanical or thermal energy into electricity. The technology has already found its way into automotive and tyre applications, and now the University of Wisconsin-Madison reports that a group of its engineers have, together with a “collaborator from China”, developed a nanogenerator that could increase an electric vehicle’s mileage by around ten per cent.
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Maxam shows OTR, mining, construction bias tyres at Arminera 2015
Arminera 2015, the latest in a series of biennial mining exhibition, was held in Buenos Aires, Argentina, from 5 to 7 May. The show was inaugurated in 1997 and is now the largest international, mining related exhibition in the country, with exhibitors showing a variety of vehicles, equipment, tools and the latest in mining technologies.
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Continental official tyre of US youth football association
Following the signing of a multi-year agreement, Continental is now ‘official tyre’ of the USA’s largest football association, the American Youth Soccer Organization (AYSO). The tyre maker has also become the presenting sponsor of ‘Safe Haven’, a child and volunteer safety programme that is compulsory for every registered AYSO coach, referee, administrator and volunteer helper.
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Mexican carrier lauds Vipal product performance
Mexican carrier Morgan Express says ti achieved reductions by retreading over 800 tyres from its fleet with Vipal materials. Morgan has over 40 years of experience in the logistics markets, with facilities in five Mexican cities (Guadalajara, Monterrey, Nuevo Laredo, Veracruz, and Mexico City). The company, which has a fleet of around 150 vehicles, retreaded over 800 heavy duty tyres in 2014, using Vipal’s VEL B and V167 B treads.
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