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Maxxis Babes to tour in ‘BabeMobile’

It will be hard to miss the Maxxis Babes in 2012 because the girls will be touring the UK in their very own BabeMobile – a VW camper van featuring a distinct livery purpose-designed for them by one of their legion of fans. The Babes will be using the orange and black BabeMobile to travel to rounds of the Maxxis British Drift Championship and the ACU Maxxis British Motocross Championship and to attend the various performance car shows and exhibitions that tyre manufacturer Maxxis will be supporting next summer.

9th December 2011/by Tyrepress Editors

Tough times for tyre distributors?

Editorial/Comment, News, UK News

As we look forward to 2012 there is no sign to economic pressures that blighted 2011 lifting any time soon. On the contrary, with the financial confusion surrounding the eurozone and with credit ratings agency Standard and Poor’s threatening to downgrade any of the 17 countries associated with it, there are still many challenges ahead. That said it was apparently a good year for some.

7th December 2011/by Chris

Continental announces car tyre price rise

Due to continued high raw material and energy costs, Continental is increasing the price of its summer passenger car tyres in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. The price rise takes effect on 1 January, 2012; from this date Continental brand tyres will cost between three and four per cent more while prices for the Uniroyal, Semperit and Barum brands will increase by three to six per cent.

6th December 2011/by Tyrepress Editors

TYM International seals long term deal with Triangle

Norfolk-based tyre business TYM International has secured its continuing relationship with leading Chinese tyre manufacturer Triangle Tyres. The deal was sealed following meetings between TYM International general manager Steve Eke and Triangle senior vice president and international export director Lin Bin at the manufacturer’s Weihai, Shandong Province headquarters at the end of November. Furthering a relationship that first began in 2004, the agreement sees the two companies aim to develop their growing mutual business in the UK earthmover, truck and passenger car tyre segments.

5th December 2011/by Tyrepress Editors

RMA lowers 2011 forecast

The Rubber Manufacturers Association, which represents the manufacturers accountable for more than 90 per cent of all US tyre shipments, has lowered its 2011 tyre shipment forecast by one per cent due to downward revisions in year-end economic growth in the US. This revised full-year forecast of 287 million total units is approximately two million units more than in 2010. For next year, the RMA retains a “guardedly optimistic” forecast as US economic growth is anticipated to remain slow, and the association expects overall tyre shipments in 2012 to increase by more than two per cent to over 290 million total units.

5th December 2011/by Tyrepress Editors

Conti: UK passenger car market “stable” at 33 million units

Continental estimates that the 2011 UK car, 4×4 and van tyre market will equate to 33 million units despite estimates from other leading tyre manufacturers earlier in the year suggesting demand could have been in for a double digit drop. Speaking at the tyremaker's annual market trends briefing in London, executives from Conti's UK operation (Continental Tyre Group Ltd) explained that the market has “remained static, with a number of evident developments, such as an increase in the part worn market due to the scrappage scheme.” Continental now estimates that part worn sales equate to 2 – 3 million units a year, with sales of these used products estimated to have increased by up to 50 per cent of the traditional and widely accepted 2 million units annually figure.

2nd December 2011/by Tyrepress Editors

Toyo placing an emphasis on rolling resistance with Nanoenergy

A new range of Toyo eco tyres is scheduled for release in Japan next February ahead of its launch in other regions, including Europe. Known as the Nanoenergy, the new tyre has been developed with a focus on reducing rolling resistance; Toyo says the tyre boasts a ‘AAA’ rolling resistance rating according to the labelling system introduced by the Japan Automobile Tyre Manufacturers Association (JATMA). This, the label’s highest rating, is given to tyres with a rolling resistance coefficient lower or equal to 6.5.

2nd December 2011/by Tyrepress Editors

European Commission publishes updated labelling regulation

Company News, International News, Legislation, News

Just under a year before its mandatory introduction, the European Commission has published its second regulation (1235/2011) paving the way for the implementation of tyre labelling requirements. Regulation 1222/2009 introduces labelling requirements detailing the display of information on fuel efficiency, wet grip and external rolling noise of tyres. According to the ETRMA, which has been involved in consultation on the legislation, the regulation aims to “increase the safety and the environmental and economic efficiency of road transport by promoting fuel-efficient and safe tyres with low noise levels.”

1st December 2011/by Tyrepress Editors

Green tyres 50% of Chinese total by 2020, projects Lanxess

In connection with its Rubber Day China, which takes place in Beijing on December 2, specialty chemicals company Lanxess has reported on a study it commissioned the Technical University of Munich to undertake. This study indicates that the proportion of ‘green tyres’ in China is likely to increase to up to 50 per cent of the entire tyre market by 2020. China, Lanxess notes, already accounts for a third of global tyre production; around 400 million passenger car tyres are produced there each year.

1st December 2011/by Tyrepress Editors

Construction begins on Conti’s ‘leadership securing’ Kaluga plant

Work on Continental’s Kaluga passenger tyre factory in Russia is underway. On 29 November the tyre maker held a groundbreaking ceremony at the site and signed an investment contract with the Kaluga regional government. Continental says first stage work at the Kaluga plant will cost approximately 240 million euros and provide for a four million tyres a year capacity, with the first passenger car tyres scheduled to roll of the production line towards the end of 2013. Further expansion of the facility in the short-term is also planned, the company adds.

30th November 2011/by Tyrepress Editors

Sibur gets go ahead for Matador-Omskshina acquisition

Russia’s Government Commission on Monitoring Foreign Investment has given the green light for Sibur-Russian Tyres to acquire a 100 per cent interest in the Matador-Omskshina joint-venture, which it previously operated 50/50 with Continental AG. Following the acquisition, the joint venture operation has been renamed Cordiant-Vostok. Sibur-Russian Tyres says the 100 per cent acquisition will enable it to increase manufacturing capacity in order to meet growing demand for passenger car tyres.

29th November 2011/by Tyrepress Editors

Analysts: Nokian heavy tyre production cuts are warning to other tyremakers

Financial analysts have commented on Nokian’s plans to scale back its heavy tyre production, saying they are symptomatic of the macro-economic environment. Nokian announced the news of the 25 November, following a reported slowdown in orders for the first quarter of 2012. “While this is not huge news (Nokian expected weaknesses in 2012) it stresses how fragile demand is for the pro cyclical heavy and truck tyres is in a recessionary environment,” financial analysts from Morgan Stanley reported in an investor’s note published the day of the news.

28th November 2011/by Tyrepress Editors

Pirelli talks road and race tyre commonality

Pirelli’s entrance into Formula One tyre supply was informed, in common with most motorsport tyre suppliers, by the desire to enhance recognition of the brand and sell more road tyres. When manufacturers start to market their tyres based on their motorsport involvement, a primary rhetorical stance is often to speak of “race to road” technological advantages; in other words, motorsport research yields certain technologies that help to improve companies’ passenger car tyres. To mark the end of its first season as the sole supplier to F1, Pirelli has released a statement comparing its race and road tyres that reveals where the crossover actually occurs:

25th November 2011/by Tyrepress Editors

Nokian to scale back heavy tyre output

Following a drop in demand for Nokian heavy tyres and the expectation that lower demand will continue into 2012, the Finnish manufacturer has opted to reduce its production output of these products. On 25 November Nokian shared details of a preliminary plan to change the working pattern of its heavy tyre production to a discontinued five-day, three-shift model and to reduce the work input of approximately 100 factory and 15 white-collar employees through lay-offs. The company says that personnel cuts are also a possibility.

25th November 2011/by Tyrepress Editors

Hankook launches second-generation enfren

As Hankook Tire’s vice president, Pae Ho-youl, recently said, green tyres will be a tyre industry “keyword” in the coming years. It is thus no surprise that the company unveiled a new product at the SEMA show in the US. During the trade fair Hankook Tire America unveiled the second-generation enfren eco, a product it says was “specifically designed for fuel efficient and hybrid vehicles and offers consumers an energy saving, low rolling resistance replacement tyre with all-season performance.”

14th November 2011/by Tyrepress Editors