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With spring weather arriving in much of the UK this week, tyre safety organisation TyreSafe has launched its annual Bike Tyre Safety Month campaign, with a range of free promotional materials available to download at www.tyresafe.org/bikesafety. Campaign posters can be used to promote free tyre safety checks and a safety leaflet is aimed at informing and educating riders about the importance of ongoing tyre maintenance.
Balkrishna Tyres will be exhibiting its latest range of All Steel Radial Tyres when it appears for the first time at this year’s Automechanika Middle East (7 – 9 June at the Dubai International Convention and Exhibition Centre). According to the show’s organisers, a full hall at Automechanika Middle East will be dedicated to. Along with the company’s recently launched all steel radials, which are sub-branded Earthmax, BKT will also display its range of branded industrial, construction, earthmoving, port and agricultural application tyres.
Deliveries of the Nissan Leaf – the vehicle recently crowned European Car of the Year 2011 – have begun in Europe, and Bridgestone reports that models of this all-electric car sold here and in Japan will be supplied with its Ecopia tyres as original equipment. The tyre maker will supply its Ecopia EP150 in size 205/55R16 91V. This fitment is part of a larger Ecopia EP150 line-up Bridgestone announced in January; the range is now available to fit a wide range of compact and mid-sized passenger cars with 14 to 16-inch rim sizes in 55 to 65 series.
Bridgestone has given further information on restarting production in its factories located in Japan’s Kanto region or north of that region. Production at the company’s Yokohama and Tokyo factories has already recommenced, although electricity supply and other issues are still restricting a return to full production at the Yokohama site. It is anticipated that Bridgestone’s Tochigi, Nasu and Kurioso factories will recommence production on March 16. Deliveries from the Tokyo plant are expected to restart on March 16 and deliveries from Tochigi and Nasu on March 18 or thereafter.
TyreSafe has announced an online competition for members of the public to name their new crash test dummies and be entered in a competition to win £50 in iTunes vouchers. The organisation says it has just “adopted” a family of four new animated crash test dummies, which will be used to help promote tyre safety. The family will give drivers tyre safety tips, information and advice. Entrance to the competition is accessed through the TyreSafe website at www.tyresafe.org/thenamegame, with the competition closing at 17:00 on 31 March.
The United Steelworkers has described a decision made by the Appeals body of the World Trade Organization as “a slap in the face to US workers and industries that are harmed by China's predatory trade practices.” The decision reverses the findings of a WTO panel report from last year on anti-dumping and countervailing duty proceedings for off-road tyres and a number of other products from China; specifically, the WTO states the US Department of Commerce acted erroneously by simultaneous levying both anti-dumping and countervailing duties on these products.
Statistically speaking, you’re more likely than not to be driving on under-inflated tyres. When Bridgestone headed out last year and checked the tyre condition of 38,000 cars in nine European countries, it found 71 per cent of participating motorists to be driving on tyres inflated to a lower than recommended pressure. The majority of these under-inflated tyres were admittedly less than 0.5 bar under pressure, yet 7.5 per cent of motorists’ tyres were more than 0.5 bar under pressure and half a percent of motorists were driving on tyres at least 0.75 bar under pressure.
In light of the most recent VOSA effectiveness report, TyreSafe has issued a warning to van and LGV drivers on the cost and safety issues linked to overloading their vehicles. The organisation states that unless operators compensate for carrying heavy loads by increasing tyre pressures to the recommended levels, their tyres will wear out quicker, fuel consumption will increase and safety may be compromised.
It probably comes as no surprise that the fastest man on ice is a Finn. Nokian Tyres test driver Janne Laitinen set a new world speed record for driving a car on ice on March 6 when he nursed his Audi – shod with size 255/35R20 97 T XL studded Hakkapeliitta 7 tyres – up to 331.61 km/h (206.05 mph) on a 14 kilometre track laid out on the frozen Gulf of Bothnia near the city of Oulu.
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Several of Finnish tyre manufacturer Nokian’s tyres have been awarded recommendations by German tyre testers including the ADAC and Stiftung Warentest. The Nokian V received a “good” rating from the German Automobile Association, ADAC on the back of strong balance, with “good in all safety relevant disciplines, top mark in the wet”. Nokian says the V was also “recommended” after 2011 tests by the European Automobile Association ACE/GTÜ, Öko-Trend.
JH Tyres of Armagh, Northern Ireland has invested in Cam Systems’ Cameo platform, citing its ability to control its stock and generate credit reports as worthy of the long-term investment. John Henry, owner of JH Tyres says: “We are looking forward to reaping the benefits of the new Cameo system such as stock monitoring and generating credit reports. I’m confident it will reveal a full range of benefits as the system is rolled out.”
The world’s only specialist sircraft tyre manufacturer, Birmingham-based Dunlop Aircraft Tyres has stated that the appointment of Ken Hutchins as technical sales manager will help to strengthen the company’s reach into North and South America. Hutchins has a wealth of experience in the aviation industry, having previously worked for aircraft wheels and brakes companies Goodrich and Messier-Bugatti. Based in Houston, Texas, and reporting to Dunlop Aircraft Tyres’ sales and marketing director David Skepper, Hutchins will drive sales of the company’s products throughout North America and the fast-expanding South American markets.
Chinese tyre manufacturers Techking has announced that its Effiplus passenger car tyres recently received Nom accreditation (the national Mexican Safety Certificate).
ATS Euromaster is to supply the Giti Tire manufactured Primewell brand of truck. Primewell tyres are already sold in Asia, North America, South America and mainland Europe. Giti Tire is reportedly the fourth largest radial truck tyre manufacturer in the world.
Richard Lyons, Giti sales director – Europe, said: "We were looking for a large national company whose values reflected our own focus on quality, innovation and the environment, and ATS Euromaster ticked every box. Fleets of all sizes are using Primewell tyres around the world and have commented on the difference they are making to costs and performance levels. We have every faith that our partnership with ATS Euromaster will help us swiftly establish a similar reputation in the UK commercial vehicle sector."
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