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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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Double Coin promotes winter, low profile products at CITExpo

This year was the first time Double Coin Holdings was present at CITExpo as an exhibitor, and vice-president Liu Xue Jun told Tyres & Accessories that the company had met with a good mix of end users, dealers and wholesalers during the show. The Shanghai exhibition was used as an opportunity to meet new customers and to show off the company’s new range Double Coin brand winter truck tyres. “Winter tyres are a new product for us,” commented Mr. Liu. “We’re going to promote these, along with our new 295/60 low profile tyres.”

28th September 2012/by Tyrepress Editors

Tariff benefitted tyre exporting countries, not the US – TIA

The now-expired US tariff on consumer tyres imported from China failed to save or add new tyre industry jobs in the US, the Tire Industry Association said on 27 September. Reporting the end of the tariffs, the association reiterated its opinion that “free and open markets with level playing fields are best for the consuming public and the local tyre dealership in providing the best price for the best product possible.”

28th September 2012/by Tyrepress Editors

Aufine offering more designs

The Aufine Group says it “enjoyed a very active and successful” CITExpo show this year, with a great deal of interest from visitors. Speaking with Tyres & Accessories at the Shanghai show, company general manager David Sun says that although he’d observed signs of the current global economic situation amongst people he’d met during the exhibition, the Aufine team nevertheless met new contacts and held meetings that offer a good chance for new business relationships.

28th September 2012/by Tyrepress Editors

Otire offers bulletproof security

Don’t you just hate it when you’re driving down the road and people start shooting at you? Apart from the noise and inconvenience involved, a stray bullet can really wreak havoc on your tyres. Fortunately, one Hangzhou, China-based tyre maker has the answer for those who want to avoid weapons-related punctures.

28th September 2012/by Tyrepress Editors

Chinese tyre market undergoing change – Dr. Tan

During his keynote address to the US-based International Tire Exhibition and Conference on 18 September, Giti Tire executive chairman and PT Gajah Tunggal Tbk director Dr. Enki Tan shared that China’s tyre market faces a number of changes in the coming years. He referred to the growth of the middle class and increasing numbers of younger consumers in China; he said that incomes in China are rising – workers’ average wages are expected to rise from five per cent of the US average to 25 per cent – and opined that the most significant change will come through the Chinese government’s target of raising domestic consumption to reach 61 per cent of the country’s GDP by 2022.

27th September 2012/by Tyrepress Editors

Triangle reports significant sales growth in key markets

Chinese manufacturer Triangle Tyre shares that it managed to dramatically increase sales volumes in certain markets last year. Particular growth areas were Russia and Brazil, where sales volume growth reached 186 per cent and 179 per cent respectively. South African market sales volumes rose 16 per cent during this period. Sales volumes in Russia are also said to have doubled again in the first half of 2012.

26th September 2012/by Tyrepress Editors

Tariffs on Chinese consumer tyres no longer needed, says US union

Former champion of the US tariff on Chinese-made consumer tyres, the United Steelworkers, claims the trade barrier is no longer needed. In this, the week in which the tariffs first introduced on 26 September 2009 are due to expire, the USW issued a statement addressing its right to request an extension. The USW shares that it told the US Government as far back as March that it would not seek an extension.

25th September 2012/by Tyrepress Editors

Exhibitors signing up for next year following successful CITExpo 2012

Over the last decade China’s tyre industry has worked hard to overcome the scepticism of many market observers in the West, and today the country boasts a number of brands established as credible players in Europe and North America. Their journey to domestic and international success has been aided by Chinese trade shows, including the annual China International Tire Expo, or CITExpo show. In September, the tenth edition of CITExpo took place in Shanghai. Speaking with Tyres & Accessories at its conclusion, the managing director of the company behind CITExpo reported a very successful show.

24th September 2012/by Tyrepress Editors

Spanish factory a Bridgestone TQM award recipient

Bridgestone Corporation held its third annual Bridgestone Global Total Quality Management (TQM) Conference on Friday, 14 September, at the company's Global Manufacturing Education Center (G-MEC) building in Kodaira City, Tokyo. The motto for this year's event was "Standards are Our Guiding Principle,” and a focus was placed upon ‘kaizen’ – the Japanese word describing improvement or change for the better – throughout the Bridgestone Group. In that context, Bridgestone Europe’s Burgos plant in Spain was given a TQM award, in particular thanks to “open and close standard based kaizen” in the plant’s curing department.”

21st September 2012/by Tyrepress Editors

AA concept tyre shows off Lanxess’ green solutions

Although not a tyre maker in its own right, Lanxess supplies its synthetic rubbers to major manufacturers around the world. But to demonstrate the company’s competence in product innovation and its solutions for green tyres, Lanxess has entered the tyre making business, albeit on a very small scale – the German specialty chemicals company has produced an ‘AA’ rated concept tyre.

20th September 2012/by Tyrepress Editors

Michelin participating in Chinese tyre label development

The China Rubber Industry Association says Michelin is assisting it in formulating the provisions of a new tyre label for China. A news release on the CRIA’s Chinese language website reports the French tyre maker is contributing its experience of European labeling to the project.

18th September 2012/by Tyrepress Editors

Analysts: US wholesalers de-stocking ahead of Chinese import tariff end

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The latest figures from the US light vehicle replacement tyre wholesale markets suggest shipments declined 1.9 per cent in August, according to the RMA. However, financial analysts from Deutsche Bank believe there are “several factors contributing to temporary weakness in the market” and that wholesalers are currently inclined towards de-stocking (due to recent raw material cost declines, and the nearing end of Chinese tyre import tariffs. As a result many anticipate lower prices in the months ahead.

13th September 2012/by Tyrepress Editors

SD International introduces winter ranges

Shanghai-based manufacturer, SD International has introduced winter tyre models across several of the company's established private brands – Pace, Zeta and Maxtrek.

7th September 2012/by Tyrepress Editors

Bridgestone all-weather tyres equipped for all seasons

During a visit to Bridgestone’s Sweden Proving Ground earlier in the year, Tyres & Accessories drove in temperatures way below freezing in some of the most extreme conditions in Europe, using the manufacturer’s current Blizzak LM-30 winter rubber, and the prototype of its successor to be, the LM-32, which remains in development for the moment, as well as a comparative summer weather tyre, which behaved about as well as one would expect on heavy snow. There was, however, an intermediate all-weather tyre option, which the company is particularly focusing on in Oceanic climates such as that found in the UK.

6th September 2012/by Tyrepress Editors

Lanxess invests 235 million euros in Chinese rubber facility

Rubber supplier Lanxess has announced plans to make its biggest investment in China to date with the construction of a 235 million euro, 160,000 tonne a year synthetic rubber plant. The factory, which will be situated in Changzhou, Jiangsu Province, will specialise in the production of EPDM synthetic rubber, which is used largely in the automotive and construction industries.

5th September 2012/by Tyrepress Editors