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Bridgestone addressing growing all-season demand with Turanza All Season 6
Bridgestone has extended its Turanza tyre portfolio into the all-season segment with the launch of the Bridgestone Turanza All Season 6. This successor to the Weather Control A005 EVO is designed for electric and ICE vehicles and will be available in 85 car and SUV sizes for 16- to 21-inch rims, a range covering 96% of high-rim demand in the touring all-season segment.
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Recycled carbon black: Nokian Tyres joins project
Nokian Tyres is taking part in a research project that aims to improve the quality and yield of recycled carbon black from end-of-life tyres, with the goal of using this material more extensively in tyre and rubber products. The two-year development project is coordinated by Windspace Group A/S and co-financed by government initiative the Danish Eco-Innovation Program.
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Goodyear selling tyres with Monolith pyrolysis carbon black
Some 18 months after establishing a partnership with Monolith, Goodyear is launching a tyre containing the pyrolysis specialist’s carbon black. Owners of electric vehicles in North America can now fit the Goodyear ElectricDrive GT, a size 235/40R19 all-season tyre. This is the first tyre to feature this type of carbon black produced by Monolith.
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India: Apollo Tyres debuts Avolve service model
At a meeting of business partners in Hungary, Apollo Tyres launched its new Avolve service business model. The company describes Avolve as a “servitisation model” that offers tailored solutions to targeted customers, especially commercial fleet operators. Apollo Tyres is initially rolling out Avolve across India.
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Petlas invests $360m in new tyre production facility
Petlas will invest $360 million in the construction of a new light vehicle tyre production facility adjacent to the Turkish company’s existing plant in Kırşehir. The new production line will produce 100,000 tons of tyres for passenger cars and light commercial vehicles, increasing the manufacturer’s total capacity by 42 per cent, reaching 340,000 tons. It will create around 1,850 new roles. Petlas expects to break ground on the new factory in 2023, with completion slated for 2024-25.
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Giti Tire supporting Reid Freight Services on road and track
Craig and Simon Reid and the rest of the team at Reid Freight Services are completing final preparations to transport their two racing trucks to Brands Hatch for the first event of the 2023 British Truck Racing Championship season when Tyres & Accessories visits the regional haulage firm’s Stoke-on-Trent site. The brothers and their father, David, have a long history of competing in one of motorsport’s most unique disciplines, with a reception area lined with trophies and memorabilia from track-based competition to show for it. In 2023, both brothers are competing in division one of the BTRC. Craig, who is infectiously enthusiastic about racing if also endearingly downbeat about his own chances in the competition, took the time to tell T&A about the Reid brothers’ trucks, the competition, and his affinity for the tyres of the series’ exclusive tyre supplier, Giti, both on-track and on the Reid fleet of trucks, heavy haulage trailers and specialist rail logistics units.
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Prinx addresses all-season demand with Quattura 4S
In addition to two tyres specifically designed for electric vehicles, the first products to arrive in the new Prinx range for Europe include a tyre for the increasingly popular all-season segment. Prinx Chengshan Tire Europe says Prinx Quattura 4S is a “high-performance all-season tyre for petrol and diesel vehicles” that has “earned its (3PMSF) snowflake.” It therefore “delivers excellent safety performance even in difficult weather conditions.”
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Point S Tyre & Autocare launches UK fleet tyre service
Deep into its second decade of UK development, the Point S Tyre and Autocare independent tyre dealer ad car maintenance network is establishing its offer to the fleet market, using the 2023 edition of the Commercial Vehicle Show to present and demonstrate its programme for fleets, including a new online management system. Point S was also present at the show in 2022, using its stand at the Birmingham NEC hosted event to introduce the brand to UK fleets at the commercial market’s most prominent national platform. It also demonstrated its improved offer to truck fleets; Point S exhibited alongside truck tyre distribution partner, International Tyres, showcasing the Fortune truck tyre range and Point S’s own brand of van and car fitments, produced by a leading tyre manufacturer from Germany. Fortune is a brand of rapidly developing Asian tyre manufacturer Prinx Chengshan, produced in Thailand and thereby avoiding current tariffs placed on truck tyres produced in China, features a casing warranty designed to extend the useful life of every Fortune tyre. With these foundations laid, Point S’s UK network swelling to more than 300 members and Tony Valentine installed as the company’s UK fleet manager, the company is now poised to offer, in its own words, a “competitive and cost-effective solution.” Tyres & Accessories visited the company’s stand in Birmingham to discuss the move into the fleet market.
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Audi selects Continental SportContact 7 for RS 6 Avant performance
Audi is factory-fitting its RS 6 Avant performance with Continental SportContact 7 tyres. Continental shares that it has obtained global approval for equipping this Audi model with a 22-inch fitment, and in numerous markets including the UK and Ireland the tyre of choice is the SportContact 7 AO Silent in size 285/30 ZR 22 101Y XL FR.
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Prinx arrives with 2 EV-specific tyres
Prinx is the new flagship brand of Prinx Chengshan Tire Europe and following their public debut at The Tire Cologne in 2022, the market launch of the first Prinx products is imminent. Wholesalers can now order the XNEX Sport and XLAB Comfort, which together are obtainable in a range that covers 45 sizes and 69 articles.
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Falken targets UHP market with latest all-season tyre
A new tyre has joined the Falken Euroall Season line-up, and Falken Tyre Europe tells us that this product is “designed specifically for high-performance vehicles,” with development focusing on “good all-round winter performance.” The Falken Euroall Season AS220 Pro is available in a range of 46 dimensions.
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Textar expands brake pad and disc lines
Braking specialist TMD Friction UK has introduced 16 brake pad and disc references to its premium Textar branded product ranges. The new brake pad references cover popular vehicle makes, including Audi, Brabus, Fiat, Genesis, Hyundai, KIA, Mercedes-Benz, and Porsche, with new pad reference 2468101 fitting a comprehensive range of Mercedes-Benz cars, and reference 2920006 covering various Mercedes-Benz light commercial vehicles.
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Sustainability & Performance: Sailun launches Atrezzo ZSR2
Sailun Group Europe has introduced several new tyres featuring its EcoPoint3 liquid-phase mixing technology. One of these products is the Sailun Atrezzo ZSR2, a tyre hailed by its manufacturer as the “ultimate combination of sustainability and performance.” Atrezzo ZSR2 is available in sizes for 17- to 20-inch rims, 205 – 275mm tyre widths, 30 – 55 cross sections and speed ratings W and Y.
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ZC Rubber extends OE portfolio
Several years ago, a large Chinese tyre maker expressed to us its confidence that it would supply original equipment tyres for Europe within a decade – the assumption being that its tyres would arrive on Chinese vehicle brands imported into the region. Keeping an eye on OEM deals in China thus provide insights into which tyres we may see as original equipment in the coming years.
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PCL debuts bike air tower
Pneumatics specialist PCL has extended its tyre inflation portfolio with the introduction of the UK’s first air tower for bicycle tyres. The Digital Bicycle Tyre Inflator is designed for public use and available across Europe and worldwide, including the Far East.
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