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Land development plan for Federal plant approved
Recently, Taiwanese tyre manufacturer Federal disclosed to the public its recent operations, including land development plans associated with one of its factories. Federal has two factories in Taiwan, located in Chungli and Guanyin, with a total of 535 employees. The tyre maker said the Guanyin plant has an annual capacity of 3 million tyres; the Chungli plant has been suspended due to the implementation of anti-dumping duties by the United States.
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Hankook iON truck/bus range coming to Europe
The iON name is one we’ve recently become acquainted with on Hankook car tyres. With the launch of the iON Evo and iON winter, Hankook Tire has a range of summer and winter tyres specifically aimed at electric vehicles. The South Korean tyre maker is now launching a series of iON truck and bus tyres in its domestic market, and this is worth noting as Hankook says some of these products are being developed with European markets in mind.
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Aeolus makes first 63-inch giant OTR tyre
On 11 October, a 59/80R63 radial engineering tyre rolled off the production line at Aeolus’s Jiaozuo manufacturing base. This giant OTR tyre has a diameter of over four metres and a weight of nearly six tons. It is mainly used for giant mining weighing about 400 tons.
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Davanti Terratoura takes on epic challenge with Ollie Ollerton
What do you get when you pair the durability, performance and reliable handling of Davanti’s Terratoura with ex Special Forces soldier and TV personality Ollie Ollerton? The answer: An epic challenge where adventure beckons.
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Pyrum & partners gain Materialica award for waste tyre car parts
Mercedes-Benz is starting to equip its EQE and S-Class models with door handles containing materials gleaned from end-of-life tyres, and those involved in the project have been acknowledged for their contribution. Pyrolysis-based recycling specialist Pyrum Innovations, together with BASF, Mercedes-Benz and Witte Automotive, received a Materialica Design + Technology Award 2022 at this month’s eMove360 ° trade fair.
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Kazakhstan JV tyre plant nears completion
Manufacturing equipment is being installed within the KamaTyresKZ joint venture tyre plant in Kazakhstan ahead of the facility’s commissioning with an initial capacity to produce 3 million car tyres and 500,000 truck tyres annually. A second project phase will add capacities for rubber products such as conveyer belts, while agricultural tyres will join the production programme in the third phase.
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Germany: Continental sponsoring national men’s football team
When Continental wrapped up two decades of top-level football sponsorship following the UEFA EURO 2016 event its Tire division claimed to have “achieved the brand recognition targets we had set for the communication platform that football provided.” Yet the tyre maker never lost its love for the beautiful game, and from 1 January 2023 will add the men’s team in its homeland to its sponsorship trophy cabinet.
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Nokian Tyres expands Nokia site
Nokian Tyres has acquired a property adjacent to its headquarters and factory in Nokia, Finland. With the addition of this 27,000 square metre building, the Nokian Tyres site in Nokia approaches 150,000 square metres in total.
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Tomatoes & fuel-efficient tyres: SRI announces another breakthrough
Sumitomo Rubber Industries, manufacturer of the Falken tyre brand as well as Dunlop tyres for many markets outside Europe, reports a breakthrough that will “accelerate the development of the ultimate fuel-efficient tyres.” This breakthrough involves tomatoes.
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£200m Xingda Thailand factory phase II confirmed
On October 3, the Thailand factory of Jiangsu Xingda Steel Tyre Cord Co and Rojana Industrial Park Public Co held a land signing ceremony. It is reported that after seven months of planning, site selection and communication, the steel tyre cord factory finally decided to place Phase II in the Bowin Industrial Park in Chonburi Province, managed by Rojana.
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Guangrao government awards six tyre industry companies
On October 8, the Guangrao County Government announced a list of awards that included six tyre industry companies. The awards stem from the fact that this county’s tyre industry was set as one of the advanced cluster industries by Shandong Province in 2020. It is reported that some enterprises in Guangrao County engaged in tyre-related fields can obtain incentive funds.
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2022 Asian Tyre Brand rankings revealed
The World Brand Lab has released the list of Asia’s 500 most influential brands in 2022. Tyrepress analysis shows seven brands related to tyres among those ranked, namely: Bridgestone, Hankook, Kumho, Doublestar Linglong, Sailun, and Sumitomo. The Sumitomo brand involves diversified industries, but its subsidiary Sumitomo Rubber is a world-renowned tyre manufacturer.
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“Fear & insecurity” within Nokian Tyres’ Central Europe region
The EU ban on tyre imports from Russia has hit one company particularly hard: Nokian Tyres. Prior to February 2022, the Finnish manufacturer produced 17 million tyres a year in a factory near St. Petersburg, 82 per cent of its global output. Ten million of these were exported, mainly to Europe. This has no longer been possible since 10 July, with consequences for Nokian Tyres’ Central Europe sales region.
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Hankook becomes Formula E technology partner and tyre supplier
At the end of September Hankook announced that, as of next season, it will be the exclusive technology partner and tyre supplier of the ABB FIA Formula E World Championship. The announcement was made at an event in The Swarovski Crystal Worlds in Austria on 27 September, where Tyres & Accessories was present to witness Hankook being officially presented with the newly developed Hankook iON race tyres.
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Asahi Kasei Europe joins blockchain technology pilot
In September 2022 Asahi Kasei Europe joined a joint project on blockchain technology relating to ISCC PLUS certification. Led by the Dutch software provider Circularise and the Japanese trading company Marubeni, this project aims at enhancing the efficiency of the certification process and the integrity of the certified data.
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