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Goodyear IT630 T – a new tyre for tele-handlers

Goodyear has announced the launch of an extension to its successful range of durable radial industrial tyres – IT630T taking place at the British National Ploughing Championships held at East Coombe in Somerset on 8 October 2011. The new tyre is designed for use in hard ground applications and the suffix T denotes that its primary use will be on tele-handler or telescopic handler machines. The first size available is the most popular one for these machines; 460/70R24.

3rd October 2011/by Tyrepress Editors

Blitz Rotary lifts debut at exhibition

PSV exhibition Coach and Bus Live provides Blitz Rotary with a platform to launch its new HydroLift S2 mobile column lifts. Mobile column lifts offer increased flexibility in a workshop environment both for large and small service bays and workshops.

28th September 2011/by Tyrepress Editors

Hankook opens fifth US warehouse

Hankook Tire America has officially opened a new distribution centre in New Jersey, reports Tire Review. The new 400-000-square-foot warehouse is Hankook’s fifth in the US – the others are located in Tennessee, Texas, Illinois and California – and it will service customers in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic regions. The centre’s opening ceremony was attended by some 100 guests, including Hankook Tire America President Soo Il Lee, Frank Gambatese, the mayor of South Brunswick, and Hankook dealers and employees.

28th September 2011/by Tyrepress Editors

Exide ready for current and future battery market

Manufacturers wishing to succeed in any automotive industry sector need the right product for the target market. This may appear a tall order when the target market is the entire motor vehicle parc, yet Exide Technologies has developed a range of batteries that caters to vehicles with many differing and specialised requirements. Earlier in the year this attention to market coverage was acknowledged by the Institute of Transport Management (ITM), who awarded Exide Technologies the title of “Best Automotive Battery Range 2011.”

27th September 2011/by Tyrepress Editors

Westlake appoints Axle Group Holdings as sole UK PCR distributor

Westlake Tyres has appointed Axle Group Holdings Ltd – which owns both the retailer National Tyres and Autocare and wholesale Viking International – as sole distributor of its passenger tyre range in the UK. Eskay Tyres, part of the Al Dobowi Group, which brings the Westlake brand to Europe from its Chinese manufacturer Hangzhou Zhongce Rubber, said the Axle Group’s success and current growth, was “one of the reasons” it became interested in working with them. Viking has significantly increased stocks and same day delivery capability, while the retail division, National Tyres and Autocare, has recently added 20 new branches to the network this year, now totalling 240 sites.

26th September 2011/by Tyrepress Editors

Pirelli opens Milan fashion shop

Last week, Pirelli opened its very first Pirelli Corsa Venezia retail fashion shop. The 4 million euro store, located in Milan’s fashion district, is the final extension of the tyre maker’s “P Zero Project,” which began in 2002 with small line of shoes and apparel sold through third parties.

26th September 2011/by Tyrepress Editors

Hangzhou Zhongce ‘looking at Europe’ before proceeding with JV

According to unconfirmed news published by the Bangkok Post, concerns about an “uncertain outlook” in Europe may have prompted a postponement of the planned joint venture between China’s Hangzhou Zhongce and Thailand’s Thai Hua Rubber. In its September 26 article, ‘Chinese-Thai venture on hold’, the newspaper reports Thai Hua CEO Luckchai Kittipol as saying investment in the joint venture has been suspended as Hangzhou Zhongce wishes to monitor European economic conditions.

26th September 2011/by Tyrepress Editors

Further Bridgestone US expansion plans unveiled

This has been a red-letter week for Bridgestone Americas Tire Operations. On Wednesday the tyre maker went public with its plans to construct a large and ultra-large OTR tyre plant in South Carolina, Bridgestone’s first outside of Japan, and to increase passenger car and light truck tyre capacity at its Aiken County plant, located in the same state. A day later it announced that bus and truck tyre capacity will also be lifted; Bridgestone Americas Tire Operations (BATO) said it will invest US$36.6 million to increase production capacity at its Warren County, Tennessee plant by 900 units per day.

23rd September 2011/by Tyrepress Editors

Marangoni consolidates European presence, renames Ellerbrock

As of 1 September 2011, Ellerbrock Reifenrunderneuerungs-Technologie GmhH, which was acquired by the Marangoni Group in the early 1990s, officially began trading under the name Marangoni Retreading Systems Deutschland GmbH. And in order to explain the rationale for this move, its recent performance and the company’s vision for the future, Marangoni invited Tyres & Accessories to see the fast growing Marangoni Retreading Systems Deutschland operation first hand and hear from executives at the same time.

Marangoni Retreading Systems Deutschland’s facilities in Henstead-Urzburg cover an area of 26,500 square metres, with an additional 13,500 square metres occupied an accompanying logistics centre. The facility, which currently employs 120 people, manufactures Profil Liner pre-cured tread strips and Marangoni’s trademark pre-cured rings for truck tyre retreading.

22nd September 2011/by Tyrepress Editors

UK-funded project leads to a better EV battery

Axeon, a Dundee-based independent supplier of lithium-ion batteries, says a project it undertook with two other companies, Ricardo and Allied Vehicles, has succeeded in developing a new battery for use in electric cars that offers a more than 35 per cent improvement in range compared with batteries weighing the same and employing existing technologies. The parties involved are said to currently be in “active discussions” about the commercialisation of the new technology.

22nd September 2011/by Tyrepress Editors

Delticom CEO talks e-commerce and fleet business with Tyres & Accessories

Online tyre business is the future, according to Delticom CEO Rainer Binder. With more people buying tyres online than ever, it might not take a futurist or e-business whizz to make such a predction, but in this recent interview with T&A Binder share more about Delticom's approach and new European, fleet and global business strategies.

22nd September 2011/by Tyrepress Editors

Details of Bridgestone’s ‘major strategic investment’ announced

A total of around US$1.2 billion dollars will be invested in Bridgestone’s Aiken County site in the United States. The tyre maker’s plans for this South Carolina location involve both increasing capacity at its passenger car and light truck tyre plant and erecting a new factory to produce large and ultra-large radials for construction and mining vehicles. Production capacity at Bridgestone’s steel cord plant in Clarksville, Tennessee will also be increased in order to supply this new OTR tyre facility.

22nd September 2011/by Tyrepress Editors

City Giving $735,000 Grant for CTA Plant

The city of Mount Vernon, Illinois, has reportedly committed $735,000 in grant funding to Continental Tire’s (CTA) plant expansion in the city. The money is expected to go toward infrastructure improvements and equipment. For its part, CTA has committed to creating at least 440 new jobs.

19th September 2011/by Tyrepress Editors

CRIA: Chinese tyre market will be ‘tested’ in 2H 2011

International News, Legislation, News

Analysts believe that China’s tyre industry will face a severe test in the second half of this year. According to the China Rubber Industry Association (CRIA) statistics, in the first six months of 2011 member companies’ tyre production totalled 128 million units, of which 107 million were radial tyres. This represents year-on-year growth of 1.6 […]

16th September 2011/by Tyrepress Editors

New Sava truck tyres to take advantage of eastern upswing

Slovenian tyre brand Sava Tyres – a Goodyear Dunlop brand – launched its new range of 22.5” truck tyres in an event in Ljubljana, including a visit to the Goodyear Dunlop manufacturing facility in Kranj, earlier in the year. The new range, which comprises the Avant 4 steer tyre and the Orjak 4 drive tyre, has been developed to provide enhanced performance and lower cost per mile on both long and short haul transport operations. Goodyear Dunlop also suggested that an upswing in the European truck tyre market would be experienced in the eastern half of the continent.

14th September 2011/by Tyrepress Editors