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Now one of the largest tyre-producing countries in the world, China has an indisputable influence on the direction of global tyre trade. The home of both fast-growing up-and-coming brands as well as a burgeoning domestic market, this tag chronicles China’s involvement with the tyre business.

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Membat’s CC-rated tyre offering experiencing sales growth in Europe and beyond

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Spanish-based Membat exhibited at Citexpo for the third time this year. The company, which has been in business 10 years now, established its Membat private brand five years back. Demonstrating its private brand pedigree, the company owns the brand name, the moulds and has registered its patterns, which the firm is proud to say are designed in Spain. Production of Membat tyres began in 2012 and so these tyres are therefore entering the third year of manufacturing now.

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Altenzo: 245/25 R22 launch at Citexpo is a ‘world first’

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The Altenzo tyre brand, which is owned by Chinese alloy wheel maker PDW Group, used Citexpo 2014 as the platform for a world-first addition to its UHP range.

The show saw the long-awaited release of the Altenzo Sports Comforter in 245/25 R22, which according to the company makes the firm the first in the world to make this size available for mass production.

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  1. CITExpo adds fourth hall in bid to become largest Far Eastern tyre trade fair
  2. CITExpo aims to break records with its 12th edition
  3. Crown Tyre launches Evermax brand
  4. Kinforest offers BC label and up to 100 sizes in run-flat
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How PCL is improving the standard of inflation technology in China

Following the news that PCL couplings will now no longer be gold in colour, Tyres & Accessories visited the company’s Sheffield manufacturing. After this – in order to get a more global perspective – T&A visited PCL’s China operation and interviewed local general manager Robert Wang. China is, of course, a key growth market for many in the automotive and automotive aftermarket industries who are seeking to capitalise on the country’s strong manufacturing base, huge population and growing middle class. PCL is no-different, having relatively recently established its Shanghai operation as a means of getting a foothold in China. However it is also a complex market where market saturation and counterfeiting are barriers to entry and development.

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  1. PCL acquired by Horn Tecalemit
  2. PCL products will look different, but are the same quality
  3. PCL appoints PC Products as Thailand distributor
  4. Bridgestone Officially Opens Chinese Plant
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Michigan state confirms pavilion at Automechanika Shanghai

The Michigan Economic Development Corporation (MEDC), which is a US state-funded economic development corporation that encourages the continued growth of the state’s auto industry, has booked a pavilion at Automechanika Shanghai.  According to the show’s organisers, the Michigan government is keen to use Messe Frankfurt’s enormous industry resources to help foster its auto industry development as the show is an irreplaceable platform for the Michigan’s auto parts companies, which have the world’s leading advanced automotive parts research and development and manufacturing standards to showcase different areas of products and services at the show. It is also interesting to note in light of the ongoing tyre import trade dispute between the US and China.

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  1. Automechanika Shanghai promises to be an ‘insightful’ event
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  4. New Automechanika Shanghai venue
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Bridgestone holds annual TQM conference

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More than 270 Bridgestone Corporation employees from around the world have attended the company’s fifth annual Bridgestone Group & Global Total Quality Management (TQM) Conference in Tokyo. Bridgestone reports that as has been the case since 2010, this year’s conference was held with the goal of encouraging ongoing and further improvement throughout the global Bridgestone Group. Examples were shared from various Bridgestone Group companies of activities that have led to improvements, with the aim of allowing attendees from around the world to learn from the efforts and accomplishments of their fellow employees.

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  1. CMT Asks How Asian Industry Will Answer Price and Environmental Questions
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Beijing stages first-ever ePrix

Formula E Beijing

History was made this weekend (14 September) as the world’s first ever fully-electric single-seater race took place in Beijing, marking the successful season opener of the FIA Formula E Championship. The race – Beijing Evergrande Spring ePrix – was held on a spectacular temporary race track built around the city’s iconic Olympic ‘Bird’s Nest’ Stadium and […]

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Citexpo 2014 reports record figures

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Following the conclusion of Citexpo 2014 on 11 September, all initial figures point to the event being the most successful in the international tyre show’s history…by some way. Indeed, with this year’s unaudited visitor total said to have been around the 11,000 mark, the 2014 show could have grown by as much as 50 per cent since the last event, which attracted just over 7,000 visitors.

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  1. Citexpo 2014 opens its doors to record crowds
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No renewal of China’s rubber anti-dumping duties

Eleven years of Chinese government anti-dumping duties on imports of styrene butadiene rubber (SBR) from Russia, Japan and South Korea ended on 8 September, the country’s Ministry of Commerce reports. The products had attracted duties of four to 38 per cent, however the ministry decided to remove them as these imports were deemed no longer a threat to China’s domestic tyre and rubber industry.

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  4. EU makes final truck tyre anti-dumping duties decision, retains fixed rates for manufacturers
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Citexpo 2014 opens its doors to record crowds

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Citexpo 2014 opened its doors today to what looks like will be record breaking numbers of visitors by the end of the week. According to Reliable Exhibitions (the show organiser), China International Tire Expo, as it is more formally known, saw at least 5,200 visitors pass through the doors of the Shanghai Everbright Exhibition Centre during the course of the opening day. Inside, visitors found large, modern stands from the show’s 348 exhibitors (up 13 on last year’s total) spread across four halls for the first time in the show’s 12-year history.

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  2. CITExpo 2015 to bid farewell to Everbright with largest edition projected
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Citexpo | 10/09/2014 – 12/09/2014

When the twelfth China International Tire Expo (CITExpo) kicks off on 10, 11 and 12 September 2014 the organiser (Reliable International Exhibition Services Co, Ltd.) hopes to be able to claim the title of “largest Far Eastern tyre trade show”. And in order to do this the company is increasing available floor space by some 20 per cent.

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  4. ‘A good move’ – Exhibitors & visitors positive about new CITExpo venue
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Mesnac to expand European activities

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The Mesnac European Research and Technical Center (MERTC) recently announced plans to expand it European activities based in Slovakia, which a focus on further developing tyre building technology. The construction of a new production facility and additional research facilities will take place in the Trencin region and the project is expected to be completed by the end of 2015.

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  2. Mesnac acquires Test Measurement Systems
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  4. Pneu-Logic to Supply 2 million RFID Chips to Mesnac in China
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Cooper: Chengshan worth US$440 million, say valuers

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Cooper Tire & Rubber Company has reported the results of its long-awaited independent valuation of Cooper Chengshan (Shandong) Tire Company Ltd (CCT). The valuation, which is also the option price, was determined to be RMB 2.722 billion roughly US$440 million at the current exchange rate.

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  1. Chengshan to buy out Cooper for US$286 million
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SD International’s ‘increasingly competitive’ Pace and Zeta private brands

Shanghai based Contract Tyre Manufacturer SD-International is presenting itself as an increasingly competitive option for high quality budget truck tyres via its Pace and Zeta private brands.

According to the company, the Zeta and Pace TBR pattern ranges are both exclusively produced in China for SD-International at an “ultra-modern production facility”. Both brands offer a “tested and approved” programme covering all current international quality control standards.

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CITExpo aims to break records with its 12th edition

When the 12th edition of China International Tire Expo (CITExpo) opens its doors at the Shanghai Everbright Convention and Exhibition Center between 10 and 12 September 2014 it is set to be the biggest in the event’s history. According to the Organizer, Reliable International Exhibition Services Co., Ltd., the addition of a new hall – hall D – as well as the fast take up of space in halls 1-3 has made the difference this year.

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  4. ‘A good move’ – Exhibitors & visitors positive about new CITExpo venue
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ITC reports ‘reasonable indication’ that US will re-start tyre import tariffs

This morning the US International Trade Commission announced that its investigation has found “reasonable indication that an industry in the United States is materially injured or threatened with material injury by reason of imports from China of certain passenger vehicle and light truck tyres”.

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  1. USA: No antidumping and countervailing duties on Chinese truck & bus tyres
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  4. US Department of Commerce proceeding with tyre import tariff case
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