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Kirkby Tyres, in collaboration with BKT Tires, has developed a comprehensive case study on Brookland Sand & Aggregates Ltd, an independent, family-run business located in Cornwall. They threw the spotlight on the performance of BKT Earthmax tyres in quarry applications.
Prometeon Tyre Group will hand a UK debut to its first Prometeon-branded premium tyres at this year’s Road Transport Expo (Hall 2A, Stand GR38 at NAEC Stoneleigh, Warwickshire; 4-6 June 2024). Ali Yilmaz, Prometeon managing director UK, Ireland and Nordics, comments: “RTX 2024 is the perfect platform for the UK debut of the first of our new Prometeon-branded premium tyres. We are proud of our heritage and the evolution to Prometeon-branded products is an historical moment for the Group.”
New additions to the Goodyear Vector 4Seasons Gen-3 tyre line will enable it to cater to a wider range of vehicles. This move aligns with the projected growth in demand for all-season tyres in Europe, positioning Goodyear to strengthen its market presence. The extension introduces 29 new sizes, with 17 of these being for 19-inch and larger rim diameters.
Autopromotec, the automotive equipment and aftermarket exhibition scheduled from 21 to 24 May 2025 at the Bologna exhibition centre, celebrates an important milestone: 30 biennial exhibitions, covering 60 years of history. On the eve of a truly historic edition, the organisers are taking important strides towards achieving all-round sustainability. In fact, the path towards certification for sustainability management systems for events, the UNI ISO 20121 standard, has already begun.
As this June edition of Tyres & Accessories went to press, we were all preparing for The Tire Cologne. Lauded as Europe’s leading tyre exhibition, the 2024 show will be an undoubtedly international event (see next month’s July issue for the review of what took place). Within Tire Cologne’s international remit, Tyres & Accessories understands that a number of well-known as well as up-and-coming Far Eastern manufacturers will be present this year. Since China is the world’s largest producer of tyres by unit volume, and in order to catch up with developments that have taken place post-Covid, T&A recently spent time in China meeting with numerous domestic and international tyremakers there.
With China’s biggest online tyre retailer, Tuhu, having gone public at the beginning of this year, and with that firm alone generating annual sales of 13.6 billion yuan (£1.476 billion; 1.732 billion euros; $1.878 billion), the recent livestream panel discussion that took place between Tyres & Accessories and Car & Tire in China moved on to the similarities and differences between the online tyre business in the UK and Europe compared with China. The discussed touched on subjects including direct retail, pre-sale research and social media.
Jiangsu General held an overseas dealer conference in Cambodia on 22 May and celebrated the first anniversary of its Cambodian tyre production base. At the meeting, the tyre manufacturer announced that the first phase of the Cambodian project had reached production. In other words, its Cambodian factory can now produce 5 million semi-steel radial tyres and 900,000 all-steel radial tyres per year.
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Tyres & Accessories’ monthly 'Tyres News in Numbers’ column boils down the latest tyre industry news to the most important statistics of the month. Below, we look at the big numbers from the May 2024 magazine... $800-1,000 million: The valuation of Goodyear’s OTR tyre business by financial analysts at Jeffries. Goodyear has identified this segment alongside the rights to the Dunlop brand and Goodyear Chemical as parts of its business open to offers as it continues to restructure its business in the wake of leadership changes in 2023.
Immediately following the conclusion of the 2023/24 season UEFA Europa League Final at the Aviva Stadium, Dublin, a somewhat unexpected 3-0 win for Gian Piero Gasperini’s Atalanta over Xabi Alonso’s otherwise undefeated Bayer Leverkusen team, official global sponsor Hankook Tire announced that it will extend its partnership with the competition and the lower tier Conference League, via its Laufenn brand, for a further three-year deal. The new deal extends to at least the end of the 2026/27 season the Korean tyre manufacturer’s relationship with the UEFA competitions, which debuted in 2012. The partnership is already the Europa League’s longest. Both the UEFA Europa League and the Conference League are expanding in the 2024/25 season, affording the Hankook and Laufenn brands increased exposure thanks to a revamped league phase. The showpiece event in Dublin offered a great spectacle on the European stage to Hankook, which has hosted corporate guests all around the continent as well as displayed its branding prominently across the continent as a result of its sponsorship deal this season.
The 14th China (Guangrao) International Rubber Tire and Auto Accessory Exhibition ran from 15-17 May and reportedly achieved some record-breaking results. Exhibition area reached 52,000 square metres, and the three-day exhibition attracted more than 780 exhibitors from the tyre industry.
Recently, Huayi Group announced its 2023 results. Double Coin, which is responsible for the company’s tyre business, reported 2023 revenue of 10.184 billion yuan (approximately £1.1 billion; €1.3 billion), a year-on-year increase of 1.64 per cent per cent. Throughout the year, the company produced 14.509 million tyres and sold 14.874 million tyres, an increase of more than 10 per cent from the previous year.
Audi Sport has selected Pirelli as exclusive tyre partner for the Audi RS 4 Avant edition 25 years. The anniversary edition of the sports estate car offers two tyre options: Pirelli P Zero Corsa as original equipment, and a specific track kit consisting of Pirelli P Zero Trofeo RS tyres with Cyber technology, combined with Pirelli’s Track Adrenaline system, both in 275/30R20 size.
Orion S.A. is investing in Alpha Carbone, a French tyre recycling company. According to the announcement made in mid-May, the partnership will enable Alpha Carbone to scale up and produce commercial volumes of tyre pyrolysis oil and recovered carbon black.
Two years after announcing the H2 Central Valley Express project, USA-based zero-emission hydrogen mobility firm Symbio has unveiled a hydrogen-fuelled, regional-haul Class 8 truck. It developed and integrated this innovative vehicle in-house and has equipped it with EV-specific tyres from co-shareholder Michelin that offer improved fuel economy and reduced wear.
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