Some six weeks after groundbreaking at the site of Yokohama’s future plant in the United States, Yokohama Tire Corporation subsidiary Yokohama Tire Manufacturing Mississippi (YTMM) has hired its first employee – human resources manager Melissa Orman.
Michelin has been awarded ISO 9001:2008 certification for its Tyreplus and Michelin Truck Service Centre (MTSC) networks across India. With this certification, Michelin becomes the largest certified tyre service network in the country; the company presently operates 23 Tyreplus and 13 MTSC outlets within India.
During the past week, Goodyear marked what it calls an “important milestone in the company’s plans to replace its current fleet of blimps.” Workers installed a new envelope over the aluminium and carbon fibre framework of the first of its new-design airships. Although they will still most likely be referred to as blimps, the new craft are semi-rigid airships and are being supplied by Germany’s ZLT Zeppelin Luftschifftechnik. Personnel from Zeppelin, along with a Goodyear team, are building the airship at Goodyear’s hangar in Suffield, Ohio.
Trelleborg Blue Dimension concept is being taken to another level as the company announced its plans to print all promotional materials on only recycled paper certified by the FSC (Forest Stewardship Council), an international certification program that promotes environmentally appropriate forest management. The company’s new approach to brochures, leaflets and technical catalogues will start in July, with the new marketing materials shown for the first time at the leading agricultural exhibition Agritechnica 2013 in Hannover, Germany, on 10-16 November.
Retail Motor Industry Standards and Certification (RMISC), a subsidiary of the RMI, announces the launch of the RI-MARK logo following its UKAS (United Kingdom Accreditation Service) approval.
Stuart James, RMI Director commented, "We are pleased with the positive response to our PAS125 accreditation service and our new logo allows accredited companies to demonstrate their compliance by displaying the RI-MARK that will become recognised as the definitive certification mark in the automotive industry.
Remog Spa invested in a new, larger show stand for the Autopromotec 2013 exhibition, the company said it had arranged the new stand in order to meet customers and demonstrate the latest balancing weights to any interested parties.
According to the company, the main innovation brought to this event were the 60 gram zinc and steel adhesive weights, which come in different colours in order to serve the nascent market for coloured alloy wheels that has long been established in countries such as Germany and the Netherlands and which is now spreading in other countries.
Netherlands-headquartered OTR, industrial and truck tyre company Magna Tyres Group has been awarded ISO 9001:2008 certification for its quality management system. Official certification audits at the Magna Tyres headquarters in Waalwijk were completed in March 2013.
Goodyear has announced that construction work on the first of its new generation of airships has begun. The Zeppelin LZ N07-101 airship is being built by Germany’s ZLT Zeppelin Luftschifftechnik and will be assembled at Goodyear’s Wingfoot Lake Hangar near Akron, Ohio. LZ N07-101 and other craft built by Zeppelin will ultimately replace Goodyear’s fleet of blimps.
In the US, Michelin Earthmover is partnering with tyre repair provider Tech International and leading Michelin Earthmover dealers to launch the ‘Michelin Earthmover Repair Accreditation Program’, an initiative the tyre maker says will provide “consistent and quality earthmover tyre repairs in Michelin’s accredited repair shops.” The new programme will be rolled out this year.
Dutch tyre company Bandenmarkt Tyres & Wheels held a ceremony with representatives of official certification agency DNV in January to confirm the award of Certificate ISO 9001:2008. The award caps a year of working on the documentation system for quality, according to the management team, which made the decision to formalise all working processes in a quality system in January 2012.
Following a three-year independent audit, ATS Euromaster has been granted ISO 9001: 2008 status. Obtaining the quality management systems accreditation involved an audit by Lloyds Register Quality Assurance (LRQA) on more than 100 ATS Euromaster outlets and across the company’s head office. The fast fit company says the audit “evaluated everything from senior management strategy planning to implementation of the plans in centres and head office departments.” It also assessed the subsequent impact on a cross-section of customers.
Bridgestone’s Rome-based Technical Center Europe (TCE) has won the Italian “E.ON Energia Award” for distinguishing itself in energy efficiency during 2012. The award, first given by the power and gas company last year, was received by Gianni Lampazzi, director of Tyre Development Operations on 29 November 2012 at the “Sette Green Awards” event held at the Triennale Design Museum in Milan.
Russia’s Tatneft reports the successful completion of an environmental inspection at its Nizhnekamsk truck tyre factory. According to the results of the inspection audit conducted by Republican Certification Methodology Center "TestTatarstan" (OS IMS TatSert, Kazan), the plant’s environmental management system was recognised to be in compliance with the requirements of GOST R ISO 140012007.
Earlier this summer Speedline Truck announced the latest extension to its range, with the addition of a new product for trailer applications. The newest wheel in the Speedline Truck portfolio is the 17.5×6.75 SLT 3086, with 10 bolt holes. The wheel is designed for trailer applications with a particular focus on low platform trailers for construction and special application transports.
In August, some 14 years after its first plant obtained ISO 14001 certification, Yokohama achieved company-wide integrated certification under ISO 14001. The Environmental Management Systems (EMS) certification covers Yokohama Rubber’s nine locations within Japan: the company’s head office and eight domestic production sites (Hiratsuka, Mie, Mishima, Shinshiro, Onomichi, Ibaraki, Nagano and Hiratsuka-East).
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