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Private Brands and More

Five short years after its inception, Shanghai Durotyre International, whose main business is the contract manufacture of private brands, has offices in China, the UK, South Africa, Lebanon and the USA. At this year’s Brityrex the company will be promoting its private brands Pace, Duration and Agrostar.

Pace, manufactured by Cooper Chengshan, is available in over 100 passenger car and truck sizes. Further UHP and SUV additions to the range will be introduced later in the year, with a winter range also planned for 2008. Duration is an extensive bias OTR range, and in the near future production of radials will commence, with 2700R49, 3300R51, 3600R51, 3700R57 and 4000R57 sizes available. Agrostar is a comprehensive range of mainly agricultural tyres.

2nd April 2007/by Tyrepress Editors

A Family Affair

The next generation of the Poddar family, who control the £175 million Siyaram group, is getting ready to take the baton from their elders. Rajeev Poddar has recently joined his father Arvind at the group’s flagship company, Balkrishna Industries, which manufactures OTR and agricultural tyres in India under the BKT brand name. Avnish and Gaurav Poddar have also joined the family controlled business, this time taking on roles at Siyaram Silk Mills, the group’s textile business.

The Poddar family recently undertook a management restructuring of the Siyaram group’s subsidiary companies, confirming management of Balkrishna Industries by Vinod and Arvind Poddar, sons of the late Mahavirprasad Poddar. The other branch of the Poddar family, the sons of Dharaprasad Poddar, remain in charge of the company’s textile business. However both families continue to hold equal stakes in each of the group’s companies.

Last year the Poddars sold a 7.43 per cent stake in Balkrishna Industries to private equity firms Evercore and Chryscapital in order to fund the company’s future expansion plans.

20th March 2007/by Tyrepress Editors

Michelin: Domestic Sales now 30% of Eastern Europe Turnover

Although the commonly held perception of Eastern Europe is principally that of a low overhead production base from which tyres are exported to western markets, statistics released by Michelin Romania show that 30 per cent of this branch of the Michelin group’s turnover is now generated from sales in the Balkan region. And sales are growing; Michelin Romania estimates that the division will have an annual turnover amounting to about 325 million euro, 25 per cent higher than the 260 million euro turnover attained last year.

13th March 2007/by Tyrepress Editors

Ex-BKT Manager to Join Alliance Takeover-Bid

Former Balkrishna Industries Ltd. executive director Yogeshkumar (Yogesh) Mahansaria and his brother Ashokkumar have reportedly quit the fast-growing Indian tyre producer, citing “family differences” as the reason. Yogesh has now teamed up with US equity firm Warburg Pincus to acquire Israel’s Alliance Tire for US$45 million. Alliance has been in negotiations with the two buyers, and the transaction is expected to be completed before June. The Alliance purchase forms part of a new venture that Yogesh Mahansaria has been quoted as saying he intends to float in the near future.

30th January 2007/by Tyrepress Editors

Mitas Confirms OE Deal with Fendt

Continental agricultural tyres will be fitted as standard equipment to Fendt’s 300 Vario and 900 Vario (models up to 305hp) tractor ranges as of January, according to Mitas a.s. and the CGS Group. The tractors will be fitted with the upmarket SuperVolumeTyre and the ContriContract AC 65.

15th December 2006/by Tyrepress Editors

RH Claydon Looks Ahead to 2007

With farming becoming ever more sophisticated and the equipment used increasingly specialised, it is important that the right tyre for the job be readily obtainable at short notice. National independent tyre wholesaler RH Claydon Ltd boasts a comprehensive range of tyres to meet all needs, and agricultural users looking for a specific tyre are by no means overlooked – a large range of major brand agricultural tyres are always in stock at the company’s four sales and service/distribution branches in England and one in Scotland. Brands stocked include: Goodyear/Dunlop, Continental, Semperit Agricultural, Trelleborg, BKT/Supreme, Titan, Mitas, Kenda, and Duro.

14th December 2006/by Tyrepress Editors

European Focus for Russia’s Largest Agri Tyre Producer

Sibur-Russian Tyres (SRT) is a large manufacturer in a large country. As Russia’s largest producer of agricultural tyres, SRT claims to supply 70 per cent of the vast domestic market. But domestic supply is only part of the SRT story. In recent years the volume of OTR tyres exported has also increased to upwards of half a million units, and the company predicts that for 2006 OTR exports will account for 50 per cent of production.

14th December 2006/by Tyrepress Editors

Riverstone Concentrates on Commercial Tyres

For the Chinese Tire Group of Factories Ltd., Inc, the CITExpo is always is like a home match because it has distribution offices in Shanghai as well production facilities in Shandong province. On the other hand, the manufacturer of the Riverstone tyre brand sells about 100 per cent of its tyres on export markets, says sales representative Rebecca Zhang. Thus the Tire Group of Factories can also benefit from the increasing reputation of the CITExpo show among international visitors. However, the company didn’t present its products on a large scale during the show because it had booked only a very small cubicle. Two truck tyres and some posters would have been enough to do the job, those in charge at the Tire Group of Factories must have thought.

2nd October 2006/by Tyrepress Editors

Linglong Sets Itself Ambitious Goals

For a company like Shandong Linglong Rubber Co., Ltd. presence at the CITExpo is obligatory. In the past other major Chinese manufacturers like Giti Tire or Chengshan used the CITExpo for their purposes. This year Linglong was by far the biggest manufacturer exhibiting at the Shanghai tyre show with all the other tyre majors missing. For export manager Merry Wang this doens’t mean that Linglong has to act like its competitors. On the contrary: “We want to build a brand,” she says with self-confidence.

29th September 2006/by Tyrepress Editors

Trelleborg Phases Out Pirelli Brand

The Agricultural & Forestry Tyres division of Trelleborg is publicising its new brand strategy. On 25 and 26 September in Italy, Trelleborg invited more than 80 journalists from Europe and North America and 40 top managers of global major tractor makers to hear about its strategic plans for driving the brand transition from Pirelli Agricultural Tyres to Trelleborg. Basically Trelleborg plans to strengthen its brand in order to make it an “autonomous and synonymous specialization in agriculture.”

29th September 2006/by Tyrepress Editors

Sibur-Russian Tyres Opens Credit Line

Sibur-Russian Tyres Company, the leading manufacturer of truck and agricultural tyres in Russia, has obtained a credit line worth $300 million from Evrofinance Mosnarbank. The loan’s fixed interest rate is 8.5 per cent per annum.

13th September 2006/by Tyrepress Editors

Continental and New Holland Work 500 Hours Non-stop

Over 23 days an area equivalent to 1,200 football pitches was ploughed, using Continental agricultural tyres and a New Holland tractor, racking up a faultless performance in over 500 hours of continuous use.The ContiContract AC65 demonstrated its efficiency at the “TM Endurance Trial”, a long-running test initiated by New Holland in the French Bordeaux region. From the 20th April to the 13th May 2006, a New Holland TM190 shod with Continental agricultural tyres worked 23 days around the clock on different fields of New Holland customers – just 900 hectares in total.

21st August 2006/by Tyrepress Editors

GPX Buys Starbright Factory: Update

Following GPX International’s recent acquisition of the Hebei Starbright tyre factory in China, Tyres & Accessories has learnt that GPX plans to refurbish and modernize the site and expand the range of products produced in the factory. The company is to introduce a full range of bias and radial agricultural tyres, including both 85 series and 70 series radial rear tractor fitments. In addition GPX representatives say the company will install a solid tyre workshop using the technology obtained in its acquisition of US-company, Maine Industrial Tire Limited (MITL).

15th August 2006/by Tyrepress Editors

Nizhnekamskshina Increases 6-month Production to 6.9 million Tyres

Between January and July 2006, Nizhnekamskshina OJSC increased tyre production by 13.5 per cent compared with the same period of last year to 6.974 million tyres. Russia’s Financial Information Service reports that this number includes 4.173 million tyres for passenger cars, a 9.7 per cent growth compared with the same period of 2005. The company also increased the production of tyres for trucks by 19.7 per cent to 2.585 million; and agricultural tyres by 21 per cent to 204,000. Production of ‘other’ tyres declined by 17.2 per cent to 12,000.

14th August 2006/by Tyrepress Editors

Mands International – Flexible and Dependable

Martin Sedlacek, managing director of Czech Republic tyre and wheel wholesaling company, Mands International s.r.o., began his career in the tyre industry in 1984 on the shop floor at Barum. Over the next years, with grim determination and a burning ambition to succeed, he improved his position and eventually entered into research and development. After the post communism elections Sedlacek was appointed assistant production manager and sent to study in the USA. Upon his return he was the assigned the role of commercial director with responsibility for all tyres sales in domestic, as well as traditional and new global export markets. In 1996 Sedlacek left Barum to form his own company, Mands International, but not before he had negotiated an arrangement with Barum whereby he could buy tyres from them to sell to new customers in Eastern Europe.

5th July 2006/by Tyrepress Editors