Pirelli a ‘top partner’ for Zanetti & Friends charity football match
Pirelli has confirmed its participation as top partner in the ‘Zanetti & Friends’ charity football match scheduled to take place in Milan’s San Siro stadium on 4 May. The event will see current and recent players from local and international football clubs take the field, players who share a connection with the city of Milan and with Inter Milan’s ‘Il Capitano’, Javier Zanetti. In addition to serving as vice-president of F.C. Internazionale Milano, the former team captain is also founder of the PUPI Foundation, an organisation focused on helping children and teenagers. The PUPI Foundation has organised the Zanetti & Friends Match for Expo to highlight the issue of and support children’s nutrition.
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Win Europa League final tickets with Hankook
Official UEFA Europa League partner Hankook Tire is offering fans two pairs of tickets to attend the 2015 final in Warsaw. Those interested in winning the tickets must visit the fansfinal.hankooktire-eu.com site before 28 April and answer three easy questions. Other prizes up for grabs include a set of Ventus S1 EVO² or Ventus Prime² tyres and official UEFA Europa League match balls.
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Vipal runs partner training in Tanzania
Vipal Rubber recently conducted a training session with the team from Nas Tyres Services Ltd (NTS), the company’s partner in Tanzania, East Africa. The event took place at the retreader’s headquarters in the city of Dar es Salaam, the country’s economic and political capital.
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Chinese consumers saying ‘Ni Hao’ to Falken tyre brand at Auto Shanghai
Although the Falken tyre brand is well-established in the European, North American and Japanese markets – Sumitomo Rubber Industries first rolled out the range in 1983 – it was only introduced into China at the start of this year. This means that Auto Shanghai 2015 will be the first chance for many Chinese consumers to get acquainted with the Falken name. The brand’s presence in China as a marque in its own right will therefore be helped by SRI’s decision to exhibit the range separately from the Dunlop tyre brand. The Falken stand at Auto Shanghai will feature products slated for release in the Chinese market, including the already-available Ziex ZE914.
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South African launch for Z tyre brand
The Z tyre brand has held a co-ordinated countrywide launch in South Africa in association with Tyrecor, its distribution partner. Taking place in three different locations showcasing the country’s diversity to accommodate the maximum number of tyre dealers, the main event was held at the Emperor’s Palace in Johannesburg, hosted by Harjeev Kandhari, CEO of Tyrecor and Zenises, global distributor of the Z brand. The two supplementary official launch events were also hosted by Tyrecor at the Oyster Box in Durban and the Taj Hotel in Cape Town.
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Boeing names Michelin a Supplier of the Year
The Michelin Groups Aircraft Tire Division has been recognised as a Boeing Company ‘Supplier of the Year’. The tyre maker was one of 14 companies (and one university) honoured at a Ceremony held in the USA on 15 April. Michelin was awarded in the ‘Electronics/Hydraulics/Mechanical’ category. Michelin also received a Boeing Performance Excellence Award.
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US site Goodyear’s entry into online tyre retail
Online tyre retailers are nothing new, and Michelin’s current 40 per cent share acquisition of leading French portal Allopneus shows the major manufacturers are taking an interest in this business. That said, no major tyre maker sells directly to the public over its own website – but this is about to change. As Goodyear chairman and chief executive officer Richard Kramer announced at the company’s annual shareholders meeting on 13 April, the US-based company is gearing up to begin rolling out online tyre sales in its homeland. Goodyear has yet to comment on whether it plans to extend these web retail activities to other markets.
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UK car registrations rise 6.8% in March, European total up 10.6%
Demand for new passenger cars in the European Union rose 10.6 per cent year-on-year in March 2015, with the ACEA, or European Automobile Manufacturers Association, reporting a total of 1,604,107 cars registered. This is the 19th consecutive month of growth, and it is a trend fuelled by all major markets – particularly Spain, where new passenger car registrations jumped 40.5 per cent to 112,299 units. Italy also enjoyed double-digit growth and recorded 161,303 new passenger car registrations in March, 15.1 per cent more than a year earlier. The greatest number of new registrations during the month took place in the UK, where 492,774 new passenger cars were registered, a 6.8 per cent increase on March 2014.
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Tyre recycling process amongst Edison Award finalists
A Melbourne-based tyre recycling specialist has become the first Australian company ever to be named an Edison Award finalist. Green Distillation Technologies, which has developed a destructive distillation process for transforming end of life tyres into carbon, oil and steel, is a contender for an award in the Energy & Sustainability category. The firm doesn’t have long to wait to discover if it has landed a gold, silver or bronze award – winners will be announced at an event in New York on 23 April.
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European truck tyre manufacturers losing ground to imports, says ETRMA
The association representing tyre manufacturers in Europe says its members experienced “mixed results” in the region’s replacement market during the first quarter of 2015. While companies belonging to the European Tyre and Rubber Manufacturers’ Association sold more passenger car tyres (up 1.9 per cent to 52,120,000 units) and motorcycle tyres (up 6.6 per cent to 3,297,000 units) in the first quarter of 2015 than a year earlier, both truck and agricultural tyre sales were down compared with the corresponding period in 2014; ETRMA members’ truck tyre sales decreased 0.74 per cent to 2,158,000 units and agricultural tyre sales dropped 12.8 per cent to 436,000 units.
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