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70th Anniversary an opportunity for Hankook to concentrate on growth

As Tyres & Accessories reported on May 9, Hankook has reached its 70th anniversary. The tyre maker says it has decided against celebrating with “pomp and ceremony” and instead wishes to mark 70 years in the business by concentrating on its sustained growth. In this jubilee year, the South Korean company says it will also renew its promise to customers that in the coming decades it will “still tackle all challenges with passion and commitment and continue regional investment.”

12th May 2011/by Tyrepress Editors

Halfords Autocentres: Renault Meganes most likely to fail MOT

Halfords-owned Nationwide Autocentres, which purportedly performs more MOTs than any other garage group, has released details of research showing how cars perform when it comes to the annual road worthiness test. It found that three year old Renault Meganes examined in 2009 had a one in four chance of failing, while similarly aged Vauxhall Corsas had a one in five chance. According to the company the data was collated more than six months ago, but it still raises some interesting points on the the frequency of test failures of particular models.

11th May 2011/by Tyrepress Editors

Howzat! Pro-Align appoints former county cricketer

Pro-Align has added David Haydon as the latest recruit to join its wheel alignment sales team, as field sales executive in the South West. According to the company, both Pro-Align and Haydon are “bowled over” that the ex-county cricketer has brought his proven sales track record to the wheel alignment business.

11th May 2011/by Tyrepress Editors

Starco developing specialist tyre aftermarket sales

2011 promises to be an exciting year for one of Europe’s major suppliers of specialist and industrial tyres the Starco Group, according to Group marketing manager Brian Lorentzen. Since the onset of the recession at the end of 2008, Lorentzen says Starco’s strategy has been to trim its organisation – “both to weather the financial storm and to prepare the company for the future. It is natural that we have focused on reducing operating costs throughout the group; by reducing unnecessary stock levels and by cutting expenditure on those activities which do not relate to our core business.” All this, of course needed to be achieved “without reducing the company’s ability to innovate and operate, and without impacting the customer satisfaction on which our current and future business depends,” as Lorentzen acknowledges.

10th May 2011/by Tyrepress Editors

Happy 70th birthday, Hankook Tire

Employees at Hankook Tire’s headquarters in Seoul, Korea have celebrated the 70th anniversary of the tyre maker’s founding with drinks and a cake-cutting ceremony. While staff applauded the many achievements in Hankook’s last seven decades, the company is also using the milestone as an opportunity to look to the future; Hankook says the occasion calls for “commitment to an incessant passion and readiness for challenges in the next 70 years.”

9th May 2011/by Tyrepress Editors

Heuver Tyrewholesale celebrates 45 birthday

On May 1 Heuver Tyrewholesale celebrated 45 years in the business. Mans Heuver established his regional tyre business in the Netherlands as a ‘one-man band’ in 1966 and the company has grown to employ 230 people. For the last two decades Heuver has operating internationally and in recent months has placed greater emphasis on the UK market, yet the wholesaler says it has by no means reached the limits of its ambitions. In this 45th anniversary year, Heuver says it still has a host of plans for the Netherlands and international markets.

6th May 2011/by Tyrepress Editors

Hankook celebrates successful DTM debut

High praise for Hankook came after the company’s first DTM race as exclusive tyre supplier. Following the weekend’s touring car race at the Hockenheim circuit in Germany, viewed by some 58,000 spectators including Hankook Tire executive vice-president and Europe COO Jin-Wook Choi and global CSFO Hyun-Bum Cho, race winner Bruno Spengler declared the Hankook Ventus race tyres to be “very good,” adding that “even though we are running a lot over the kerbs here at Hockenheim, the tyres remained consistent. That is really very good.”

3rd May 2011/by Tyrepress Editors

Cooper begins 30th season of British F3 tyre supply

This weekend Cooper Tire enters its 30th season as exclusive tyre supplier to the Cooper Tires British Formula Three International Series, as the formula begins its 60th anniversary season this weekend. The series’ more international flavour of recent years will be represented by its first round taking place at Monza, Italy: one of four held outside the UK. Britain will see six events.

15th April 2011/by Tyrepress Editors

East Bay Tire Co celebrates anniversary

East Bay Tire Co celebrated the company’s 65-year anniversary at the end of March. East Bay Tire representatives report that the company has spent four generations servicing the West Coast of the US and Hawaii.

11th April 2011/by Tyrepress Editors

YHPT introduces 20th anniversary-themed MAK wheel alongside two others

The UK distributor for MAK replacement alloy wheels, Yokohama HPT, says it is helping the manufacturer celebrate its 20th anniversary by introducing three new styles into the UK. These include the Venti (Italian for 20); a striking design intended to reiterate the company’s design flair and high quality production values.

8th April 2011/by Tyrepress Editors

Alcoa celebrates 125 years of modern aluminium

This year saw a milestone in American history that is “known to few but benefits everyone”, according to American forged aluminium wheel producer Alcoa. “On February 23, 1886, Charles Martin Hall passed an electric current through a molten cryolite-alumina solution to form the first small, shining globules of aluminium, known today as ‘our crown jewels.’

7th April 2011/by Tyrepress Editors

Cooper marks F3 diamond anniversary with diamond, crystal tyre

Cooper Tire has created a set of jewel-encrusted tyres to mark the diamond anniversary of Formula 3 racing in Britain, a series for which it is the current title sponsor. The tyres were made by London jeweller Freddie Keeble at FK Diamonds using both diamonds for the 60th anniversary and Swarovski crystals. They were unveiled at Silverstone during the launch of the 2011 Cooper Tires British F3 International Series, where they were bolted on to the race car of Carlin driver, Rupert Svendsen–Cook.

6th April 2011/by Tyrepress Editors

Wolfrace announces first 2011 addition to Eurosport wheel portfolio

Wolfrace has announced the release of Nitework alloy wheels for small and compact vehicles, a range the company says is to be the first of several new styles to be launched in the Wolfrace Eurosport portfolio. The company celebrates its 40th anniversary in 2011, and says that the Nitework is to continue in the footsteps of previous Wolfrace products, which have aimed to provide highly desirable designs, such as the original Slot Mag, the Voodoo and the Matrix.

5th April 2011/by Tyrepress Editors

Did the Michelin stained glass end up in Oz?

Michelin’s missing one-of-a-kind stained glass windows may have end up in Oz. The focus of Michelin's window hunt has moved to Australia following tip-offs that the glassware featuring the Michelin man Bibendum could have been shipped down under. The antipodean link has emerged out of information submitted to Michelin through its stained glass amnesty, issued over four months ago. Michelin set up a confidential hotline and amnesty web page to allow people to leave their clues anonymously in the search for the original stained glass windows that once adorned the Michelin House building in London.

31st March 2011/by Tyrepress Editors

Pirelli’s Hembery made Richard Burns Foundation trustee

Paul Hembery, Pirelli’s motorsport director, has become a trustee of the Richard Burns Foundation, established in memory of the 2001 world rally champion. “Richard was the first world champion I worked with and he set the bar in terms of being a highly motivated and competitive athlete, while remaining a very grounded, decent person and I was proud to call him a friend,” said Hembery. “Taking on the role of trustee for the Richard Burns Foundation is a privilege.”

15th March 2011/by Tyrepress Editors