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The European Tyre and Rubber Manufacturers’ Association (ETRMA) has published details of its members’ European replacement market sales for the fourth quarter of 2023. The figures show a year-on-year decline in all market segments.
Shortly before the Christmas Break, the European Parliament and Council reached a provisional agreement on the Euro 7 Regulation for motor vehicles. The European Tyre and Rubber Manufacturers’ Association (ETRMA) says it “welcomes” this step towards enshrining tyre abrasion as the fourth tyre characteristic to be regulated after rolling resistance, wet grip and external rolling noise.
The European Commission’s Joint Research Centre listed tyres as a priority product in its preliminary study for a new regulation that will mandate the Commission to develop secondary legislation on specific product groups. The European Parliament and Council reached a provisional agreement on this regulation last week. If confirmed, its inclusion of tyres “will reinforce industry’s long-standing commitment to make its products more sustainable and contribute to the European Union’s circular economy goals.”
The European Tyre and Rubber Manufacturers’ Association (ETRMA) has published its members’ replacement tyre sales data for Europe during the third quarter of 2023, reporting a “significant decline across all segments” that continues the negative market trend seen in the first half of the year.
ETRMA Members formally approved the application of Toyo Tires to become a full Member of the Association as of 1 January 2024 during ETRMA’s 9 November board meeting.
On 9 November, ETRMA Members elected Chris Delaney of Goodyear as president of the association for a two-year term of office starting on 1 January 2024. Chris Delaney is president EMEA of the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company and currently serves on the board of ETRMA. Dr Ralf Holschumacher of the German Rubber Industry Association (WDK) was elected vice president at the meeting.
The European Tyre and Rubber Manufacturers’ Association (ETRMA) has welcomed the European Parliament Plenary vote on 10 November and the “progress made towards delivering meaningful tyre abrasion limits under the auspices of Euro 7”.
The ups and downs of European retreading continued last year. According to current figures from the European Tire & Rubber Manufacturers’ Association (ETRMA), the association members retreaded and marketed a total of 4.298 million truck tyres in Europe (excluding Turkey) in 2022. This corresponds to a decline of at least 6.2 per cent compared to the previous year, but is still 4.9 per cent above the figures for the previous year. However, since the new tyre business of the ETRMA members was largely stable (down 0.5 per cent), the importance of retreaded truck tyres fell again significantly compared to the new tyre market and was only 37.2 per cent at the end of last year. The association’s figures also show something else very clearly: the EU tariff effect, which had reduced imports of truck tyres (by non-ETRMA members) for a number of years, has now completely fizzled out.
Tyre sales in the European replacement market remained low in Q2 2023. The European Tyre and Rubber Manufacturers’ Association (ETRMA) reports negative evolution in all segments, with inflation driving costs increases that, combined with global economic insecurity, are stifling demand.
The European Parliament and Member States have come to an agreement relating to the Data Act. The Data Act is legislation designed to make a competitive data market, opening opportunities for data-driven innovation. The European Tyre & Rubber Manufacturers’ Association (ETRMA) welcomed the agreement.
Manufacturer association ETRMA reports that its members experienced a “significant drop” in replacement market sales demand during Q1 2023. Compared to Q1 2022, sales within the replacement consumer tyre segment declined 12% and replacement truck and bus tyre market sales demand shrank by 18%. While sales of moto tyres were just 3% below the prior year figure, agricultural tyre sales were 39% lower.
A positive first half of 2022 gave way to an increasingly bleak picture for replacement tyre sales according to overall figures published today by European Tyre and Rubber Manufacturers’ Association (ETRMA) members. Overall this meant replacement consumer tyre sales were 2 per cent down on 2021. Commercial replacement tyre sales remained largely flat, except for the agricultural tyre market, which was down more than a fifth (-22 per cent), having been in contraction all year. Quarter four saw double-digit percentage falls versus the fourth quarter of 2021 as the effects of war in Ukraine, including spiralling energy prices and a continental cost of living crisis, bit. The European replacement tyre segment’s first half of the year had been relatively buoyant, with double-digit growth in replacement truck and bus tyres the highlight.
The European Tyre and Rubber Manufacturers’ Association (ETRMA) has appointed Dr Adam McCarthy as secretary general, effective 1 January 2023.
Franco Annunziato, president of the board of directors of ETRMA, said: “After 17 pioneering and successful years at the helm of our association, Fazilet Cinaralp will hand over her leadership responsibilities to Dr Adam McCarthy. On behalf of the board of directors, I would like to wholeheartedly thank Fazilet for her commitment, dedication, and direction from the very start of ETRMA in 2006. She steered the Association’s inception and, since then, has built it up to become the voice of the European Tyre and Rubber Industry.”
The ETRMA has spoken in support of the European Union’s (EU) goal of delivering cleaner mobility via its recently proposed Euro 7 emissions rules. However, the association which represents tyre manufacturers across Europe, also suggested that future rules on tyres should be based on “robust scientific evidence of their real-world impact on emissions”. Specifically, ETRMA supports the use of a UN-validated test method, which is currently being developed, to establish future EU tyre abrasion limits.
The overall trends illustrated by the most recent ETRMA tyre market data are undoubtedly useful to all parties, however some of the figures will raise eyebrows. For example, According to ETRMA’s full-year 2021 passenger car tyre data, Great Britain is the fourth-largest passenger car tyre market some way behind third-placed Italy. And is Turkey really Europe’s leading truck tyre business?
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