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Vipal rewarded for export market diversification

Vipal has been recognised for its activities in international markets in an awards ceremony hosted by Porto Alegre trade association ADVB. President Arlindo Paludo received the 2013 Export Award for Market Diversification on 8 July, joining other exporters from the state of Rio Grande do Sul in a variety of categories. Paludo said: “This award is one of the fruits of Vipal’s entire 40 year history. We have always bet on developing products featuring high quality and technology, and have never set environmental preservation aside. It’s a great pleasure to see important competitions like the Export Awards recognizing that.”

23rd July 2013/12,345 Comments/by Tyrepress Editors

ContiWinterContact TS850 scoops string of awards in 2013

Continental garnered a number of winter tyre accolades in the first half of 2013, most recently receiving a coveted award from the UK’s Auto Express magazine. Continental’s ContiWinterContact TS850 ‘Best Winter Tyre’ for the second consecutive year in the 2013 Product Awards.

22nd July 2013/12,345 Comments/by Tyrepress Editors

Aebi Schmidt selects Hankook Vantra LT

Aebi Schmidt has selected Hankook’s Vantra LT tyre for its Swingo 200 street cleaning machines. At over four tonnes, the Swingo 200 is tough machine that can expect a long and arduous working life. This specialist machine also boasts a large hopper capacity, resulting in a 50 per cent bigger payload than other street sweepers.

10th July 2013/12,345 Comments/by Tyrepress Editors

Tyrepress.com visitors register TAFF Award votes in droves

The vast majority of tyre industry visitors to Tyrepress.com in the past month have registered their vote in the 2013 NTDA TAFF Awards according to the latest Question of the Month poll. 97 per cent of those registering their opinion on the question, “Are you going to vote in the 2013 NTDA TAFF Awards?” said that they already had voted, while a further one per cent said they intended to do so. The remaining two per cent of those surveyed said they did not intend to cast a vote.

10th July 2013/12,345 Comments/by Tyrepress Editors

Two receive Hankook Tyre UK outstanding service awards

In June Hankook Tyre UK marked the ongoing service of its staff and presented members of the team with awards for outstanding service. The lunch recognised the 10 year anniversary for two members of its senior staff who both started work at the company in 2002.

UK sales director, Barrie Horrocks, was awarded for his outstanding service after celebrating 10 years with the company last year. Horrocks joined the company as commercial sales manager, a role he was in for 9 years before being promoted to sales director in 2011.

5th July 2013/12,345 Comments/by Tyrepress Editors

Goodyear Wrangler DuraTrac ‘best off-road traction tyre’ – Off Road magazine

News, Product News

German magazine Off Road’s readers have chosen Goodyear’s Wrangler DuraTrac as the best off-road product in the ‘Traction Tyres’ category. This was the first time the magazine has invited its readers to vote on tyres alongside their favourite vehicles, and the Goodyear tyre beat all the other products to the inaugural edition of this honour.

4th July 2013/12,345 Comments/by Tyrepress Editors

TAFF Awards 2013 coverage – next week on Tyrepress.com

Over the next week, Tyrepress.com and the daily Tyrepress.com newsletter will present each of the five voting categories of the NTDA Tyre & Fast Fit Awards, featuring profiles of each company's bid for 2013 glory. The voting process for the TAFF Awards has already begun and ends on 27 September. The big difference this year is that voting is only via the NTDA website (www.ntda.co.uk/TAFF) and not by post, as in previous years. For the second year running, the TAFF Awards are sponsored by speciality chemicals company Lanxess.

27th June 2013/12,345 Comments/by Tyrepress Editors

ATS Euromaster awarded RoSPA accreditation

ATS Euromaster has been awarded a safety accreditation by the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA) in its 2013 Safety Awards. ATS-E reduced the number of lost time accidents, recording an unprecedented 25 per cent reduction in 2012 compared with the previous year. This is particularly notable, ATS-E says, since it had already reduced its lost time accidents by 58 per cent between 2007 and 2011. The RoSPA Safety Awards recognise health and safety success and offer organisations a prime opportunity to prove on-going commitment to raising health and safety standards. The tyre specialist is the only company of its kind to be recognised in this way.

20th June 2013/12,345 Comments/by Tyrepress Editors

NTDA announces TAFF Awards 2013 shortlist

The National Tyre Distributors Association has unveiled its 2013 shortlist for each of the five balloted categories in the Tyre & Fast Fit Awards. The Association also called for nominations for the Innovation Award and for the Tyre Centre of the Year Award, entering its third year as part of the annual British tyre industry Oscars. Voting this year will be 100 per cent online, with NTDA members and non-members alike eligible to vote. The Awards are sponsored by speciality chemicals group Lanxess for the second successive year, and the media partner is Tyres & Accessories magazine.

12th June 2013/12,345 Comments/by Tyrepress Editors

Infinity delighted with second TAFF nomination

Infinity Tyres reports that the company is proud to be nominated in the industry advertising category of the 2013 NTDA Tyre and Fast-Fit (TAFF) Awards. This is the second time in three years that the company has been nominated in this category. This particular award showcases the most memorable tyre advertising programmes and covers various media channels, from print to TV as well as online advertising.

12th June 2013/12,345 Comments/by Tyrepress Editors

Bridgestone acknowledged for carbon emission efforts

Bridgestone’s voluntary efforts to reduce carbon emissions have been praised by the Freight Transport Association. The tyre maker shares that FTA climate change policy manager Rachael Dillon has “welcomed” the work Bridgestone is carrying out, following the Department for Transport’s overall commendation of self-regulation across the sector.

23rd May 2013/12,345 Comments/by Tyrepress Editors

Apollo’s Chennai plant wins quality systems award

Apollo Tyres’ Chennai facility in southern India has won the Platinum prize in the large size category of the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry’s (FICCI) Quality Systems Awards for Manufacturing 2012. This highest-level award was presented to Apollo Tyres by Saurabh Chandra, secretary, Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion, Government of India.

17th May 2013/12,345 Comments/by Tyrepress Editors

Independent Garage of the Year finalists announced

The finalists for this year's Independent Garage of the Year award have been announced as:

7th May 2013/12,345 Comments/by Tyrepress Editors

Tyre makers receive innovation awards

Last December, Thomson Reuters named Michelin and Goodyear Tire & Rubber two of its 100 most innovative organisations for 2012. Michelin reports receiving an award last week for this achievement; in sharing this news, the tyre maker states that the Thomson Reuters award is “significant for Michelin” as it focuses attention exclusively on companies that generate a “sizable amount of innovation.” – For example, only businesses that have accumulated 100 or more patents in the past three years are qualified for consideration.

7th May 2013/12,345 Comments/by Tyrepress Editors

Good supplier business: Pirelli CPO talks to T&A

Company News, News

Following the announcement of Pirell’s 2013 Supplier Awards on 10 April, Tyres & Accessories spoke with Luigi Staccoli, Pirelli’s chief purchasing officer (CPO), to find out more what makes a good supplier.
First, Luigi Staccoli offered his appraisal of the awards event itself: “It was a very successful presentation of the awards with an event demonstrating the performance of Pirelli products running in parallel.” The parallel event is said to have offered representatives of the winning suppliers the opportunity to drive some of the most exciting vehicles available such as the Ferrari California and Lamborghini Galliardo on a test track near Milan.

1st May 2013/12,345 Comments/by Tyrepress Editors