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“Quality, Service and Relationships is the Mantra” of UK Parts Alliance

“Today’s motorists are demanding better-quality parts and service from workshops and fast-fits, and the UK Parts Alliance – via its network of 140 members’ branches ensures its customers can select and install with confidence,” claims sales director, Mike Curry. The company consists of nine strategically located independent distributor companies and specialises in the national and local supply of original equipment manufacturer branded products and support services. It reports an annual group turnover of more than £300 million.

29th April 2010/by Tyrepress Editors

TyreSafe Warns Bikers of Pothole Threat

TyreSafe has continued its April campaign to promote motorbike tyre safety by reminding bikers that they can reduce some of the problems associated with damaged roads by ensuring their tyres are properly inflated. The increase in the number of potholes on the UK’s roads following the harsh winter has increased the vulnerability of tyres running at incorrect pressures, especially from the angular edges of potholes or kerbstones. This damage can result in dangerous bulges in the sidewall, or cuts that render the tyre illegal.

19th April 2010/by Tyrepress Editors

Harsh Winter Still Playing Havoc With Tyres

Pothole damage to Britain’s roads could cost £10 billion and take more than a decade to fix, according to Bridgestone. The tyre manufacturer has reported a 10-fold increase in the number of tyres damaged due to potholes from September 2009 to March this year, compared with the same period 12 months ago.

Bridgestone’s statement follows the worst UK winter weather in 30 years, with heavy snow and ice bringing most of the country to a standstill. The constant freeze-thaw cycle has caused potholes to spring up everywhere. Such craters occur when water gets into the cracks on the road surface. When the water freezes, it causes the crack to expand, opening up the road surface for more water to seep in. A perfect combination of ice and snow, heavy traffic and already poor road conditions leaves us with a slowly eroding road surface and great big holes everywhere.

7th April 2010/by Tyrepress Editors

Alliance Expands Agricultural Offering

Alliance Tire has released a pair of new products into its agricultural range. The company is already well-known for its flotation tyres, including the 380 series. Alliance also produces the 380 Heavy Duty, a tyre it says incorporates the existing tyre’s known characteristics, including a fabric casing reinforced by steel belts, yet modified to make it suitable for the heaviest of applications, such as slurry tankers and dump trailers for soil and sand transport. Inflation pressure has been raised to 5 bar and load capacities increased. The casing has been strengthened by additional ply and tyre stiffness increased both radially and laterally. Furthermore, the 380 Heavy Duty’s bead bundle has been designed in accordance to new higher load and inflation pressure.

6th April 2010/by Tyrepress Editors

Alliance Tire Raises Prices 4.5%

Alliance Tire Europe BV has announced that it will implement a price increase of around 4.5 per cent effective 1 April. All shipments after 1 April will be made at the new price. According to the company, Alliance has taken the decision “due to the rising of raw materials,” and “has no other alternative but to increase prices by an average of 4.5 per cent”. As a result some sizes and products will face a smaller increase, while others could increase above 4.5 per cent. “We are in the same situation as all other tyre manufacturers”, Manuel Pintado, president of Alliance Tire Europe BV commented.

25th March 2010/by Tyrepress Editors

Alliance Considering White Collar Redundancies

In the last year more than two hundred Israel based Alliance Tire staff have been laid off, and on December 24 Israeli financial newspaper Globes reported the possibility that the same fate may now await “dozens” of white collar employees and production support staff. It would appear those employees not covered by the collective agreement signed between Alliance and Israel’s labour federation in 2008 are most likely to bear the brunt of any redundancies – the agreement forbids Alliance from firing any staff covered by the deal without first going through a pre-agreed process.

5th January 2010/by Tyrepress Editors

Alliance Europe Opens New Head Office

Alliance Tire Group has selected the Netherlands town of Halsteren as the location for Alliance Europe BV’s new office, commenting that the site positions it well to ensure improved responsiveness and to serve the market in a quick and reliable manner. The company adds that the move to a new office “facilitates the group’s ability to provide excellent customer support and sales services to its European business partners.”

9th December 2009/by Tyrepress Editors

WHO Identifies Australian Scrap Tyres as an Asian Health Risk

Australia’s national broadcaster has reported on World Health Organization concerns that the country’s tyre industry and its trade with South East Asia is responsible for health hazards within the region. According to the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s current affairs programme “The World Today”, some two-thirds of the scrap tyres generated in Australia each year – a quantity equalling 250,000 tonnes – are sent to Asian countries, and the quantity shipped there has tripled in the last 18 months.

20th October 2009/by Tyrepress Editors

RÖSLER Agrees Supply Contract with Rio Tinto

The Rösler Group has signed a one-year supply contract with Rio Tinto to deliver Schelkmann Precured Retreaded (SPR) tyres to Rio Tinto’s iron ore mines in Western Australia. There is also said to be potential for Rösler to supply Rio Tinto’s coal operations in Queensland and New South Wales in the future. The contract includes a wide range of OTR sizes with a focus on the supply of Rio Tinto’s most important requirement, 40.00R57. According to the company, all tyres will be manufactured in Rösler’s new retreading facility in Perth (formerly owned by Rio Tinto).

15th October 2009/by Tyrepress Editors

Alliance India Factory Gearing Up for Commercial Production

Commercial production of agricultural tyres at Alliance Tire’s factory in Tirunelveli, India is anticipated to begin before the end of 2009 following the recent commencement of start-up test production. The first products from the US$100 million plant are expected to be cross-ply off-road tyres, and the start of manufacture in India is anticipated to allow Alliance to increase radial production in Israel.

14th October 2009/by Tyrepress Editors

Continental to Manufacture "Softy" Tyres in Sri Lanka

In early August Continental’s tyre operations in Germany, Continental Reifen Deutschland GmbH, entered into a strategic alliance with another German manufacturer of super elastic tyres, Gumasol-Werke Dr. Mayer GmbH. As part of the deal, in future Gumasol’s "Softy" range of products will be manufactured in Continental’s factory in Sri Lanka, where Conti already produces super elastic tyres for the Asian and American markets.

18th August 2009/by Tyrepress Editors

Brandt Elected TIA Secretary

Tire Industry Association (TIA) has elected Larry Brandt as its new secretary.

13th August 2009/by Tyrepress Editors

New Tyres From Alliance

Alliance Tire has added to its lines with new port tyres and all-new mobile crane tyres. The Alliance Port Star (309) is a 14.00-24 28-ply tyre for container handlers, which features high rubber-to-void ratio, wide tread blocks, flat tread face, and a heat-and-cut-resistant compound.

Alliance’s new Mobile Crane Radial (630) 16.00R25, was designed for both off- and on-road applications, and features an all-steel casing, a non-directional tread and a tread compound engineered to minimize heat buildup. (Tire Review/Akron)

26th June 2009/by Tyrepress Editors

Alliance Expands Sales Force

Alliance Tire has hired four regional sales managers to represent its lines of agricultural, forestry and OTR tyres. Added to Alliance’s sales efforts were Pat Gaston of Omaha (Midwest/Great Plains); Blaine Cox of Kimberly, Alabama (Southeast); Tom Hirsch of Great Neck, New York (Northeast) ; and Andy McAllister of Waycross, Georgia, who is forestry tyre sales manager.

Alliance President Manny Cicero said that building the sales team is part of the company’s commitment to building its North American presence, as well as its worldwide share. In addition to the new staff, he said, that strategy includes a new warehouse in Tennessee and a new factory coming online in the next couple of months. (Tire Review/Akron)

27th May 2009/by Tyrepress Editors

Alliance Launches 800/70R 38 HP Agricultural Tyre

Alliance Tire has announced the release onto the US market of its 800/70R 38 tyre as the newest addition to the 370 series for high-powered agricultural tractors and combines.

The heightened performance values are joined by a wide base to provide an additional 10 per cent on top of the load capacity as the normal section size (at the same pressure) it is designed to replace. The larger footprint should also help to reduce soil compaction and improve flotation, says Alliance. The company adds that the tyre possesses aggressive lugs with a non-skid depth of 78/32nds, rigid radial belts and a rugged nylon casing, and unique shoulder and mudguard design. The tyre is suitable for any soil conditions.

13th May 2009/by Tyrepress Editors