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Ralf Benack, formerly Vice President Fleet Solutions EMEA at Continental, is now Managing Director of the KraussMaffei Extrusion EMEA business. He began in this role on 1 January 2024 and is responsible for the EMEA region business as well as the development of extrusion technology worldwide.
Gordon Bruce, the well-known motoring writer and communications consultant, died a few days before Christmas. Bruce, who was 76, suffered a heart attack during a gym session, according to a Guild of Motoring Writers obituary. He was 76. He is survived by his wife Marilyn, children Alastair and Becky and his grandchildren.
The upper end of the agricultural tyre market is keenly contested, pressure from below is strong, and manufacturers must walk a tightrope between covering the cost of R&D investments and finding competitive price points. The Vredestein strategy is to split production between two locations, a practice that enables the brand to offer high end solutions while also catering to farmers and contractors who prioritise affordability.
Since establishing its new long-term sustainability policy in 2021, Sumitomo Rubber Group has piloted and demonstrated proof of concept for the use of hydrogen as a source of energy at its tyre factory in Shirakawa, Japan. Combined with power generated from solar photovoltaic panels installed in the plant’s carpark, Sumitomo Rubber Industries (SRI) claims that the use of hydrogen has led to carbon neutrality (Scopes 1 and 2) for its production at Shirakawa, beginning in January 2023.
Witnessed by chairman and president Wang Feng, Linglong’s Jilin Factory has rolled out its first 27.00 R49 giant engineering radial tyre and hence Linglong can now produce larger volumes 49-inch tyres. The tyre manufacturer said that the 49-inch tyre product “further improves the OTR tyre product system and marks that its OTR tyre development has entered a period of rapid development”.
Following a one-year hiatus, in 2024 world-level touring car racing returns to the FIA motorsport portfolio. The 2023-launched TCR World Tour gains FIA competition status in its second season and the championship, which exclusively runs on Kumho tyres, will be known as the Kumho FIA TCR World Tour for the next three years.
TIA Agri has expanded its relationship with Yokohama Off-Highway Tires (YOHT) by adding UK supply of the Alliance brand to its existing distribution of the Galaxy line-up. Under the extended partnership, TIA Agri will distribute the full range of Alliance off-highway tyres.
The Tyre Recovery Association has warned of a potential increase in damage to the environment around the UK as a result of disruption to a popular shipping route. The Houthi attacks on commercial ships in the Red Sea will likely mean an increase in distance and time for vessels navigating the popular route between Europe and Asia, meaning costs will inevitably increase. The TRA says 75 per cent of the UK’s waste tyres are exported to the Indian subcontinent where there is evidence of pollutive dumping of baled waste tyres, a situation the TRA has described as “environmental colonialism”. Commenting on the emerging situation, the association is scathing about the UK government’s “apathy” about tackling the market’s waste tyres sustainably without depending on exports. With shipping costs are more than doubling, the TRA cites precedence that suggests rogue operators are likely to resort increasingly to illegal storage or fly tipping within the UK, as exporters are unwilling to cover the increased costs for collectors.
Independent tyre retailer and car maintenance network Point S is launching a new, omnichannel communications campaign this year to emphasise “the quality and versatility” of its private label Point S tyre brand. Manufactured in Europe, the exclusive Point S tyre range covers passenger cars, SUVs, and light trucks, and comes in three product lines – Point S Summer, Point S Winter, and Point S 4 Seasons. Leading the campaign will be video content promoting the range’s benefits.
In the middle of this year – more precisely from 4-6 June – “The Tire Cologne” will open its doors again. The leading trade fair for the tyre industry will then take place in Cologne for the third time. But again, the conditions are somehow completely different: If the premiere took place in 2018 and therefore before the corona pandemic, the second edition – actually planned for 2020 - made a very respectable “restart” after being postponed to 2022 due to the pandemic and did so again a step towards normalization, so what exactly follows number three? Our international colleagues at Neue Reifenzeitung spoke about this with Ingo Riedeberger, who acts as “Tire Cologne” director at the organizer Koelnmesse GmbH. According to him, the pandemic has acted “like a turning point” for trade fairs, and the event about tyres/wheels, retreading/recycling and workshop/vehicle service, which starts in Cologne in a few months, is no exception. Nevertheless, it remains an “issue driver in the global tyre industry”. And even if companies plan a possible presence there “more quickly than before the pandemic”, they still expect “the event to be revived”. With the same hall set-up as in 2022, Koelnmesse will have around half more exhibitors than two years ago, when there were 300 and in 2018 there were a good 530.
Yokohama UK has joined vehicle diagnostic specialist OBDeleven in calling for drivers to be more diligent when checking their tyres, especially during colder months. OBDeleven shares that motorists using its pocket-sized diagnostic tool uncovered over 50,000 TPMS issues during a three-month period of last year alone, a result indicating that systems installed in modern cars cannot always be relied on to display accurate readings.
Goodyear has placed Frank Titz in charge of its passenger car tyre replacement sales in the DACH region (Germany, Austria and Switzerland). Titz took over from Dr André Weisz, who is to take on global responsibilities at the manufacturer, in the new year, according to Tyrepress's German sister site. Weisz will continue to act as managing director of the Goodyear companies in the DACH market, such as Goodyear Germany GmbH (Hanau).
Michelin has bought Tyroola, Australia’s third-largest tyre e-tailer. As result of the purchase, Michelin intends to “further strengthen its knowledge of customer behaviour and the purchasing process”. Tyroola will continue to operate under its existing brand.
Transense Technologies plc has appointed Kevin Hennelly as sales director of its Translogik business unit. Hennelly brings more than 15 years of experience from the commercial vehicle fleet telematics industry with global telematics business Teletrac Navman and more recently he was responsible for delivering rapid growth at UK-based fleet technology specialist Lightfoot over a five-year period.
With the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) now in full swing in Las Vegas, The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company has taken the opportunity to talk about its work in the field of tyre intelligence technologies. This includes new joint development with specialists such as TDK Corporation and, separately, ZF.
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