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New Conti Fitment Out of this World

The US Atlas and Delta single use rockets have carried nearly 1,300 combined payloads to space, with cargoes ranging from weather, telecommunications and national security satellites, to material for deep space and interplanetary exploration missions. Now Continental Tire North America is making a small contribution to this further exploration and utilisation of outer space through the provision of its tyres for a ground transporter vehicle that will be used to support Atlas V rocket launch processing at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California.

27th April 2009/by Tyrepress Editors

Alliance Appoints Trio of VPs

Alliance Tire Group has announced that the Company appointed Jean-Paul Spijker as vice president sales global OEM, B.S. Rama Murthy as group vice president commercial and D. Suresh as vice president of Technology function at the end of February.

17th April 2009/by Tyrepress Editors

Reports: Man Killed in Alliance Factory Accident

An employee was reportedly killed in an industrial accident at Alliance Tire Company’s Hadera factory, according to the Jerusalem Post. Police are said to have launched an investigation into how the accident occurred. The Jerusalem Post reported that factory employees managed to remove the worker – in his fifties – from the machinery he was trapped in however medics were unable to revive him.

17th April 2009/by Tyrepress Editors

Alliance Expands Product Range with New Flotation Tyres

Agricultural tyre specialist Alliance has complemented its range of radial flotation tyres with a number of new sizes. The manufacturer has a long tradition in the development and manufacture of flotation tyres for agricultural use; in 1998 the Israeli-Indian company became the world’s first manufacturer to produce this type of radial. Now the manufacturer is launching further new developments that broaden the range of suitable applications to include use on slurrey tankers and dumpers.

16th April 2009/by Tyrepress Editors

Alliance Opens New TN Warehouse

Alliance Tire USA has opened a new warehouse in Portland, Tennessee, near Nashville. The new facility, said Alliance, is along the I-40 and I-65 corridor, and “allows us to easily send tyres to customers in any direction.”

“We are loading the warehouse right now with container loads of farm, forestry and industrial tyres,” says Manny Cicero, president of Alliance Tire USA. “We are now able to stockpile many of our most popular designs and sizes. Keeping key tyres in inventory helps us maintain ‘safety stock’ for our OE customers, and it helps us support our distributors around the country. Especially in these days where credit is tight and distributors are pulling back on investing in inventory, Alliance is committing money and product to the market to shorten the supply chain and to ensure product is available where and when needed.” (Tire Review/Akron)

3rd March 2009/by Tyrepress Editors

Renault-Nissan And Elektromotive Join Forces

The Renault-Nissan Alliance and UK company Elektromotive, a pioneer in zero emission transport infrastructure, have announced they are collaborating in the Partnership for Zero-Emission-Mobility, with the aim of accelerating the installation of charging networks for electric vehicles (EVs) in cities.

A Memorandum of Understanding has been signed by the two companies ahead of an imminent and dramatic rise in the number of EVs on Europe’s roads, with the Renault-Nissan Alliance starting sales of purpose-designed EVs in Japan and the US from next year and globally by 2012.

2nd March 2009/by Tyrepress Editors

Conti Appoints Tire Division R&D Application Management Provider

On January 13 it was announced that Continental AG has entered into an agreement with T-Systems (the enterprise customer division of Deutsche Telekom) and business process outsourcing provider Cognizant. The two companies will jointly provide application management services to the research and development operations of Continental’s tyre divisions in Hanover, Germany, beginning in 2009.

13th January 2009/by Tyrepress Editors

US Battery Makers and Research Centre Form Alliance

Leading US battery companies have teamed up with one of the country’s largest national laboratories to form the National Alliance for Advanced Transportation Battery Cell Manufacture. The object of the alliance is to manufacture advanced lithium ion battery cells for transportation applications in the United States.

The founding members of the Alliance include 3M, ActaCell, All Cell Technologies, Altair Nanotechnologies, Dontech Global, EaglePicher Corporation, EnerSys, Envia Systems, FMC, MicroSun Technologies, Mobius Power, SiLyte, Superior Graphite, and Townsend Advanced Energy. Additional battery developers and materials suppliers are anticipated to join the Alliance. The US Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory, a national research laboratory and leading developer of new battery technologies, has been active in encouraging the Alliance and will continue to serve in an advisory role as the Alliance begins operations.

19th December 2008/by Tyrepress Editors

Alliance Tire USA Names Two Key Positions

Alliance Tire USA has appointed James Tuschner to the role of marketing director and Michael Aguon territory manager for the company’s eastern region.

“He (Tuschner) is helping us establish a new warehouse in the United States, create new strategies with innovative dealers, and distributors and broaden Alliance’s footprint in North America,” said Alliance Tire USA president Manny Cicero. Prior to joining Alliance Tuschner held a marketing role with Denman Tire Corporation.

8th December 2008/by Tyrepress Editors

New Products Pad Out Alliance Range

Alliance Tire has added new products to its agricultural and agro-industrial line-ups. The Agro-Forest “Seventy” series in size 480/70-28 has been developed to meet the requirements of modern agricultural tractors working in forests and fields. The F-370 tyre enables this combined work without any changes in inflation pressure. The tyre’s structure, says Alliance, enables flotation on the field, high traction and low soil compaction. At the same time, the tread compound, combined with strong steel breakers, provides effective puncture resistance, enabling safe and efficient work in the forest.

5th November 2008/by Tyrepress Editors

Alliance Tire Reduces Workforce as Orders Decline

According to sources reporting to Israel based business daily Globes, Alliance Tire Company has laid of dozens of temporary employees and intends to lay off “a considerable number of veteran employees”. This action is being taken, reports Globes, following a sharp fall in orders.

5th November 2008/by Tyrepress Editors

Michelin Guide Goes Mobile

Change is inevitable, and the world-renowned institution, the Michelin guide, is – after more than a century in print – embracing the internet age. Information about the world’s finest restaurants and cuisine will be direct to smart mobile devices so that gourmets, foodies and other like minded folk on the go can have all the information they need in the palms of their hands.

On October 13 Michelin guide director Jean-Luc Naret unveiled an alliance with mobile content provider Ubi Ubi – a company that, in its own words, seeks to “partner with prestige brands to coalesce and serve the world’s most discerning mobile communities with upscale lifestyle products inspired by stealth elegance and adventurous technologies.” News of this alliance was given in hand with the release of the latest Michelin guide to San Francisco.

15th October 2008/by Tyrepress Editors

Paul Alves Appointed TAG President

Paul Alves, formerly one of Yokohama’s regional sales executives (most recently eastern zone manager), has ascended to the position of Tire Alliance Groupe president and CEO, replacing Daniel Beach, due to retire at YE, ending 12 years of stewardship. Beach was also a founder of the company in 1995.

TAG has 15 full member companies, with more than 500 independent retailers and 1,700 North and Central American retail outlets. It is perhaps unsurprising, with this amount of coverage, that Alves possesses an existing business relationship with TAG’s members and is “excited about joining TAG.” He promises to “grow our membership in strategic areas as well as continue to bring additional value to our programmes.”

3rd October 2008/by Tyrepress Editors

Conti Concludes “Far Reaching” Agreement with Schaeffler

After more than a month of talks and controversy, on August 21 Continental AG announced it has entered into what it calls a ‘far reaching investment agreement’ with Schaeffler KG, Mrs. Maria-Elisabeth Schaeffler and Mr. Georg F.W. Schaeffler. The agreed upon deal sees Schaeffler increase its offer to 75 euros per Conti share, however this “new chapter in its Corporate history”, to quote Continental, will be one without CEO Manfred Wennemer; Mr. Wennemer has asked the Conti supervisory board to release him from his responsibilities by August 31, 2008. The supervisory board has agreed to this request, noting great respect for Wennemer’s achievements. His successor will be appointed in the immediate future.

21st August 2008/by Tyrepress Editors

Amidst Rumors, Double Coin Chairman Ousted

Fan Xian has been replaced as chairman of Double Coin Holdings, one of China’s largest tyremakers and parent of China Manufacturers Alliance in the US. There have been a number of unconfirmed reports out of China that Fan had been “detained” and is under investigation by the government for unspecified reasons.

Liu Xunfeng was appointed to replace Fan, effective August 6, by the Shanghai Huayi Group, a government body that owns a 60 per cent share of Double Coin Holdings. Fan also served as vice president of Shanghai Huayi Group, and was replaced in that capacity, as well. Yue Chun Chen, general manager of Double Coin and president of its Shanghai radial truck tyre plant, will continue to manage the day-to-day affairs of the company and its global tire subsidiaries.

14th August 2008/by Tyrepress Editors