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Liverpool’s Kirkby Tyres continues to promote Double Coin truck and bus radial tyres, having been sole UK and Ireland importer for more than 20 years. This year the wholesaler made the Chinese manufactured brand the focal point of its presence at the Birmingham NEC’s Commercial Vehicles Show, and Kirkby is convinced that it was “an overwhelming success” for Double Coin.
“The Bluefield Coal Show is held every two years and is the top regional show for underground mining in the country,” said Tim Easter, YTC director, OTR sales. “It’s the perfect locale to highlight our new mining tyres to the coal industry.”
Just a day after we announced the first early details of the NTDA’s national tyre labelling survey, it has now emerged that mytyres.co.uk is also managing a survey on a very similar subject.
Writing in a customer email dated 2 September 2013, mytyres.co.uk explained the background to tyre labelling before going on to explain that company is interested in learning more about what consumers themselves think of labelling.
Continental Tyres recently invited Mercedes-Benz World representatives and driving instructors to experience its Contidrom testing facility in Hanover, Germany. Utilising Contidrom’s 2km wet handling track, Continental set out to demonstrate the difference between premium and budget tyres on a Mercedes-Benz C-Class among other tests.
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Bridgestone has donated a number of ‘tyre toolbags’ to help a number of talented automotive apprentices progress as part of National Tyres and Autocare’s ‘Foundation Modern Apprentice’ scheme, which includes NVQ level two training courses. Bridgestone’s support comes in the form of a branded hold-all for each learner containing a wide range of equipment to assist in both the classroom and in branch.
Former Formula One racer Jean Alesi has emphasised the importance of tyre management at the Belgian grand prix. Held at one of the quickest circuits of the season in Spa-Francorchamps, Pirelli’s brand ambassador said that the number of fast corners, combined with the length of the track and variable weather could mean that the tyres cool during the latter stages of the lap, making achieving even performance throughout the lap difficult. The exclusive tyre supplier is bringing the P Zero Orange hard and P Zero White medium tyres, the two hardest compounds in the range, to Spa – an allocation that Pirelli says is “perfectly suited” to the high-energy demands of the circuit. Inclement weather could bring the Cinturato Green intermediate and Cinturato Blue wet tyres into play too.
In July Dominique Aegerter broke the Moto2 lap record for the Mireval circuit by nine-tenths of second. According to the company, Dunlop carried out extensive analysis on data from the tyre test and continued work on the Moto2 range including work on tyre stress and a new rear tyre specification for 2014, or possibly during the remaining races in 2013, with Aegerter from Moto2 riding in addition to the Dunlop test team with Stefan Nebel and two riders from the IDM championship. The tyre has previously been tested by Rabat and Terol in Argentina.
When Maine Industrial Tire was integrated into Trelleborg Wheel Systems following its acquisition late last year, its Brawler brand was taken on by the Swedish manufacturer. It has now announced the addition and planned global roll out of a range of Brawler brand large OTR solid tyres.
Tyre retailer Paul Jarrold Tyres Ltd is the latest company to deploy MAM Software's MAM Autopart Tyres to help them expand their business. Autopart Tyres provides an interface for efficient sales transactions and professional customer service, supported by an enterprise-level administration, inventory, accounting and reporting platform.
Established in 1983, Paul Jarrold Tyres Ltd is a family run tyre retailers based in Monmouth. The company stock tyres from all major brands in the car, van, truck and agricultural sectors and offer a 24 hour callout service operating 5 mobile service vans.
Halfords Autocentres has become the latest member of TyreSafe in a move that is seen as something of boost for the growing organisation. With more than 290 Autocentres across the UK, the leading independent garage network offers car owners a greater choice of locations offering a free tyre safety check as part of the month-long safety campaign. A list of all the tyre retailers, all TyreSafe members, offering free tyre health checks can be found by visiting www.tyresafe.org.
The Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd., reported record first half sales for the first six months of 2013. According to the company, net sales edged up 0.3 per cent over the same period of the previous year, to 269.7 billion yen. However, while sales were high, profitability took a hit. Operating income declined 4.2 per cent, to 19.1 billion yen, and net income was down 5.3 per cent, to 13.0 billion yen. The tyre division appears to have borne the brunt of this.
Apollo Tyres Ltd has reported first quarter 2013-2014 financials including a 19 per cent rise in net profits to 1.66 billion rupees (22.8 million euros; US$29.7 million). The announcement followed the approval of a large dividend pay-out of 50 per cent per share (0.50 per equity share), for the year ended 31 March 2013.
Porsche set a world record at the Silverstone Classic, as more than 1,000 911s took to the track in a parade to celebrate the model’s 50th anniversary. Pirelli sponsored the parade, as part of its Porsche Club Great Britain partnership agreement signed earlier this year, which stipulated that Pirelli will support Porsche Club GB financially and with tyres and on-event expertise. 1,208 Porsche 911s, which included an array of Carrera, GT, RS, RSR, Speedster, Targa and turbo variants, took part in the parade, which helped raise funds for national cancer charity, Hope for Tomorrow.
Barbara Klaus, an Austrian driving a New Holland tractor mounted with Mitas tyres, recently won the conventional ploughing world championship held in Olds, Alberta (Canada). Her teammate Margareta Heigl won the silver in reversible ploughing driving a Steyr tractor. John Whelan of Ireland won the reversible ploughing category.
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