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Hankook renews Northampton rugby union elite sponsorship

Hankook Tyre UK has announced that its partnership with Northampton Saints Rugby Club will be extended for a further four years, having begun in 2009. The new agreement means Hankook will remain the elite sponsor until 2016, with the company’s logo positioned on the team’s shirts. The tyre manufacturer’s headquarters are in Daventry, Northamptonshire, near the Saints’ home ground, Franklin’s Gardens. Tony Lee, managing director of Hankook Tyre UK stated that “The partnership between Hankook and the Saints has been a great success to date.”

2nd May 2012/by Tyrepress Editors

Saab Parts UK welcomes parts production restart

Saab Automobile Parts AB has signed an agreement with the administrators of Saab Automobile AB allowing them the use of Saab’s press and body shop plant, including the specialist tooling, for the manufacture and assembly of body parts. The decision has been welcomed by Saab Parts UK, which said that the restart of in Trollhättan for parts manufacturing would allow parts availability to return to the levels experienced before production was halted. The UK parts supplier has been trading for almost four months, and the company says it continues to grow its network of authorised repairers.

24th April 2012/by Tyrepress Editors

Sibur-Russian Tyres divests Volzhsky Azot gas business

US-based industrial gases company Praxair, Inc. has entered into an agreement to acquire Sibur-Russian Tyres’ industrial and packaged gases business in the Volgograd Region of the Russian Federation. The business operates under the name Volzhsky Azot and includes two air separation units and a bulk and packaged gas business. Financial terms of the agreement were not disclosed.

23rd March 2012/by Tyrepress Editors

Update – Cooper Findlay labour agreement ratified

Almost three months to the day after the announcement of a lockout at Cooper Tire & Rubber’s Findlay factory in the US state of Ohio, agreement on a new labour agreement has been reached by the tyre maker and the United Steelworkers union. On 27 February Cooper announced that USW Local 207L has ratified a five-year agreement that covers some 1,050 union members at the Findlay plant. Union members voted 627 to 321 in favour of the agreement.

28th February 2012/by Tyrepress Editors

Cooper workers agree second tentative contract

90 days after they were locked out of their jobs, workers at the Cooper Tire & Rubber Co. plant in Findlay, Ohio, have reached a second tentative contract with the tyre-maker, Tire Review reports. The agreement, which will be put to a ratification vote this weekend, was reached late on 23 February. The two sides had returned to the bargaining table on 20 February and have held lengthy sessions on each day since.

24th February 2012/by Tyrepress Editors

Dunlop India suspends production at Chennai

Dunlop India has announced the suspension of operations at its Ambattur, Chennai facility because of unrest in its workforce. The decision was taken after workers “practically resorted to illegal strike”, and management staff failed to report to work, fearing for their safety, according to local news sources. Dunlop India’s management say that despite a 2009 agreement with the Dunlop Factory Employees’ Union to bring down production cost to the minimum level at the plant, the union had manipulated attendance and payroll, causing the plant to incur heavy losses. While the plant is closed workers will not be paid, concludes the company.

22nd February 2012/by Tyrepress Editors

Fraikin chooses Bandvulc for retread policy

Retreading, UK News

Fraikin UK, a leading vehicle contract hire firm, has started a supply arrangement for its retread tyres and casing management with the Bandvulc Group. The agreement, which sees Bandvulc’s product being used extensively within its operations, is supported by the collection and processing of all used tyres (casings). All of Fraikin’s UK locations will have regular tyre deliveries and collections by Bandvulc’s own fleet of commercial vehicles. Fraikin has used Bandvulc products previously, but only in part whereas this new arrangement is to supply 100 per cent of the Fraikin fleet.

20th February 2012/by Tyrepress Editors

Cooper workers to participate in ‘justice’ road trip

The lockout at Cooper Tire & Rubber’s Findlay plant in the US state of Ohio has been in effect for almost three months now. And while the tyre maker is keeping quiet about how or even if it plans to reach a mutually acceptable agreement with the United Steelworkers union, the situation is being kept in the public eye by the union. On 15 February the USW announced a joint project with the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers, and Grain Millers International Union (BCTGM). Called “From Fargo to Findlay: A Journey for Justice”, the project involves locked out workers from Findlay and a BCTGM represented factory embarking on a road trip from Fargo, North Dakota (where the aforementioned factory is located) to Findlay. The USW says the road trip’s aim is to “focus attention on the most recent wave of greed-motivated corporate attacks on workers and their unions.”

16th February 2012/by Tyrepress Editors

Cooper Findlay talks break down – again

Recently resumed talks over a new contract for Cooper Tire & Rubber’s Findlay plant in Ohio have already stalled, local media sources report. Representatives from the tyre maker and the United Steelworkers union only began negotiations again on 6 February, yet a union official told the Coshcoton Tribune that they’ve already stalled.

8th February 2012/by Tyrepress Editors

OZ selected as Ferrari F1 wheel supplier

The Scuderia Ferrari Formula 1 car scheduled to be launched tomorrow (an event postponed due to heavy snowfalls) will be fitted with wheels produced by the rim manufacturer OZ. The Italian wheel maker has served as a supplier to numerous top Formula 1 teams for a number of years now, but this is its first Ferrari engagement – previously the Ferrari team was supplied by the BBS brand. The agreement between OZ and Ferrari covers a three-year period and the wheels supplied will sport the famous yellow OZ logo, a design that harks back to the one used in the early Eighties.

2nd February 2012/by Tyrepress Editors

Bandvulc picks up Cherwell council contract

The Bandvulc Group reports that Cherwell District Council has followed its neighbour Oxford City’s example and entered into a new tyre agreement with the company, which will be managed by Bandvulc Tyre Contracts. This contract covers more than 70 pieces of equipment including 18 refuse and recycling vehicles; these will operate on Bandvulc’s Wastemaster products, a tyre Bandvulc says was specifically developed for the waste sector and is designed to resist kerb scrubbing. Other vehicles in the Cherwell fleet vehicles will also adopt products from the Bandvulc range.

1st February 2012/by Tyrepress Editors

Cooper, USW give Texarkana deal the thumbs up

The new four-year contract for unionised employees at Cooper Tire & Rubber’s Texarkana plant in Arkansas, USA has been ratified by both the tyre maker and the United Steelworkers union. The agreement, which affects approximately 1,500 union members, received a 1,006 to 141 vote endorsement. The new deal includes wage and benefit changes, which will be implemented over the course of the four-year accord, plus plans for additional plant investment – a measure Cooper says was “applauded” by both salaried and hourly employees.

27th January 2012/by Tyrepress Editors

Chinese group invests in Sierra Leone rubber

According to Association of Natural Rubber Producing Countries estimates, in 2012 China will produce some 750,000 tonnes of natural rubber, an increase of around six per cent on last year. Yet during the same period the country is expected to consume 3,610,000 tonnes of the commodity. To help meet this huge demand for imported natural rubber, China’s Hainan Natural Rubber Industry Group has signed an agreement with Sierra Leone, a deal expected to be the largest agricultural investment in the West African country’s history.

24th January 2012/by Tyrepress Editors

Texarkana talks show Cooper, USW how negotiations should look

Cooper Tire & Rubber’s fears of concurrent production stoppages at its two major US plants have been allayed with the reaching of a tentative agreement for workers at its Texarkana facility. The tyre maker says it reached the four-year labour agreement with the United Steelworkers union shortly before the current contract expired on 20 January. Details of the agreement are being withheld pending presentation to union members during the course of this week.

23rd January 2012/by Tyrepress Editors

Titan signs Caterpillar OEM deal

Titan Tire Corporation has entered into a three-year supply contract with earth moving machinery manufacturer Caterpillar. The tyre supply agreement begins this year and is valued at more than US$100 million.

18th January 2012/by Tyrepress Editors