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Trelleborg Inaugurates New Plant in Dej, Romania

Trelleborg Automotive has inaugurated a new manufacturing facility in Dej, Romania. The increased production capacity from this is intended for Trelleborg’s existing customers Audi, Dacia, Ford, Peugeot and Renault in order to provide local supply to their Romanian and Eastern European plants.

“We have a strong global platform that will be further reinforced by this plant,” says Trelleborg President and CEO Peter Nilsson. “It is important to be close to the companies we supply to fulfill just-in-time requirements. This facility continues our commitment to the developing automotive sector in Eastern Europe.”

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Alliance Reports $45.6 million First Quarter Sales

Alliance, an international tyre manufacturer based in Hadera, Israel, reported a 23 per cent growth in sales for the first quarter of 2007. First-quarter sales reached US$45.6 million, compared to $37.1 million in the parallel quarter of 2006. In addition, Alliance sales to the export market, representing 78.7 per cent of the company’s total sales, amounted to $35.9 million in the first quarter, compared to $29.4 million in the first quarter of 2006, a growth of 22.3 per cent.

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Paul Furlong Joins Micheldever as Motorcycle Brand Manager

Micheldever is continuing to build its motorcycle tyre wholesale operation with the recruitment of Paul Furlong as Motorcycle Brand Manager. Paul has 12 years industry experience in the motorcycle tyre niche, most recently working for one of the largest bike tyre wholesalers where he was responsible for winning and maintaining some of their largest accounts.

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Vacu-Lug Signs Five-Year Deal With Nightfreight

Vacu-lug, Europe’s largest independent retreader of commercial and industrial tyres, has renewed its national distribution contract with leading specialist delivery business Nightfreight for a further five years. Nightfreight will collect new and professional retread tyres from Vacu-lug in Grantham and transport them to its regional hubs before distributing them nationwide to Vacu-lug’s 300 strong customer base which includes TDG, Keuhne & Nagel, Woolworth’s, and Veolia Environmental Services Ltd. Used casings will also be collected on a nationwide basis.

In addition from April 2007 Vacu-Lug reached agreement with Pirelli resulting in the transfer of their retread production and distribution to Vacu-Lug adding further volume into the Nightfreight distribution network.

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Fragrant Tyres Online

The world’s first lavender-scented tyres will soon be beguiling traffic and its drivers, passengers and pedestrians. Delticom has begun selling Kumho’s fragrant tyres in size 205/55 R 16 W Ecsta SPT through its online shops across Europe.

The Ultra High Performance (UHP) tyres from Kumho’s Ecsta line disperses its fragrance at warm atmospheric conditions to a radius of around 10 metres. The secret of the fragrant tyres is heat resistant oils, which give off a pleasant aroma. These unique tyres also have all the characteristics of a high performing tyre. Kumho Ecsta tyres are impressive for their high safety standards and driving stability on wet and dry roads, their long lifetimes and low noise levels.

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Hi-Q Gets to GRIPS With Customer Service

A bespoke point of sale customer service system has been installed throughout the entire HiQ network in a move to improve the experience for customers visiting stores. The Goodyear Dunlop Retail Integrated Point-of-Sale System (GRIPS) is a unique customer relationship management system which is being introduced to all HiQ stores in the UK and its sister companies across Europe.

The unique Windows-based point of sale system is the result of £1.5 million investment in customer service which will provide employees with detailed pricing information and enhanced customer profiling at all of HiQ’s 130 stores across the network. “GRIPS is the result of an intensive research and development programme and reflects a substantial investment in customer service,’ comments Gary Price, GRIPS project manager.

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Rollier Gives Details of Michelin Cost Saving Plans

Speaking in an interview with French daily, Le Figaro, Michelin managing partner, Michel Rollier gave details of how less than 50 per cent of the 20,000 people who will retire from Michelin will be replaced. Michelin’s intention is close the labour cost/sales ratio gap between itself and its main competitors. While Michelin had a labour cost/sales ratio of 29 per cent last year, Pirelli’s and Continental’s labour cost/sales ratio were 21 per cent, according to Deutsche Bank figures.
“In our 2010 estimates we have assumed that only one third of the 1.5 billion gross cost savings (700 million from labour costs, 500 million from purchasing and 300 million from others areas like logistics) will be saved,” said the analysts. Instead 70 per cent is expected to be given back to dealers “mostly through higher gross margins.”

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A Leader in its Field

Goodyear has sold over 700,000 of the Optitrac tyre, making this one of the most popular farm tyre ranges on the market. Goodyear Optitrac first arrived on the European farm scene in 1999, with the introduction of the DT812, 70 series tyre, and was complemented by the DT818, 65 series variant, in 2001. The range was further extended by the introductions of the DT824 volume range, DT830 super volume range and DT800 in row crop sizes. The Optitrac family was further extended at the end of 2004, with the DT806, 85 series tyre, making a total of six products in the range.

In 2006 another family member was launched. Named the Goodyear Optitrac R+, this extended the performance capabilities of the range further, by providing even greater traction and carrying higher loads at speeds over 40 mph. This tyre was designed for the next generation of faster operating, compact, high-performance tractors over 150 hp.

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Yokohama Chosen for Most Powerful Golf Ever

Volkswagen is releasing the most powerful Golf in the marque’s 33-year history, and has selected Yokohama to handle the hatchback’s phenomenal power. The Golf GTi W12-650, created to celebrate the annual GTi festival in Europe and 30 years of the Golf in the UK, features a twin-turbocharged 650bhp version of the W12 engine normally found in the Phaeton.

The massive engine is engine mounted amidships in the Golf GTi W12, behind the front seats. Power is channelled to the rear wheels via a six-speed Tiptronic automatic transmission. The six-litre W12 engine is usually rated at 450bhp but the addition of two turbochargers raises this by 200bhp and gives the Golf a staggering 553lbft of torque.

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GPX Appoints New Head of Supply Chain

GPX International Tire Corporation has announced the appointment of Glenn D. Booth to the position of global director of supply chain management, a role he commenced on June 4. He joins the company from Coca-Cola Enterprises, where he served as a regional director of logistics.

“GPX is delighted that Glenn has joined our growing team and we look forward to harnessing his supply chain, logistics and consulting experience to foster and enhance our supply chain and logistics operations” stated Bryan S. Ganz, chairman of GPX. “Through Glenn’s extensive background, he will help GPX to facilitate and implement a positive solution to our current and future supply chain management challenges.”

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Delphi Release New Brake Catalogue

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Delphi has launched a new catalogue for 2007 covering its full range of brake pads, shoes, discs, drums and fitting accessories for the independent aftermarket. The catalogue contains details of more than 3600 part numbers including 400 parts which are new to range. Delphi’s extensive offering provides coverage of over 95 per cent of the European vehicle parc.

Following customer feedback into the design of the catalogue, the latest version boasts a number of new features designed to make it easier for customers to identify the right part first time. In the main vehicle application section of the catalogue, thumbnail sized illustrations of both pads and shoes are shown at the end of each double page spread. Full size illustrations of pads have been retained within the catalogue and appear towards the rear.

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Conti Increases Production at Romania Plant

Continental intends to boost production capacity at its Timisoara plant in Romania by around 8 per cent, to over 13.5 million tyres per annum. Capacity in 2006 stood at 12.5 million units, and the German tyremaker will utilise a 15 million euro investment budget to bring about the planned increase.

During the past seven years 50 million tyres have been produced at the Timisoara facility, with production capacity on average increasing by a million tyres per year. “Less than seven years after production started in Timisoara, in the wake of over 170 million-euro investments, we now produce up to 40,000 tyres a day,” stated Martin Kleinbrod, general manager of Continental Automotive Products.

Continental opened its new Timisoara facility, the manufacturer’s most modern in Europe, in 2000, and since that time the company has opened three tyre and automotive component factories in western Romania.

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New Touring Tyre from Michelin North America

Michelin North America has released a new addition to its range of offerings for luxury vehicles – the Primacy MXV4 touring tyre. Intended as a replacement for an existing tyre with the same name, the new Primacy MXV4 is available in 32 sizes, ranging from 185/65R15 to 225/60R18 in H-speed rating, and 195/60R15 to 245/45R18 in V-speed rating.

According to Michelin, the new tyre features a unique shape and design that provides long lasting and even tread wear and a tread that reduces vibration and road noise. “The new Michelin Primacy MXV4 tyre delivers an unprecedented and uncompromising combination of benefits that significantly boosts wear life without sacrificing handling performance for a wide spectrum of automobiles and driving styles,” claim Michelin officials said. The new tyre is intended for the North American market only and not available in the UK or Europe.

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Continental OE for New Ford Mondeo and Transit SportVan

When Ford’s all-new Mondeo finds its way into new car dealerships in late June, chances are it will be sporting a smart set of Continental tyres as OE. In late May the German tyremaker revealed that a total of eight sizes have been approved by Ford, including one model featuring SSR runflat technology. Continental’s emergency spare wheel will also be available on some models.

Ford has given the go-ahead for five 16-inch tyres in the ContiPremiumContact range to be made available for the Mondeo as well as two tyres suitable for 17″ and 18″ rims from the ContiSportContact family of products. And the selection of the Conti SSR runflat (in size 235/45 R 17 97 W XL) as the eight tyre option for the Mondeo is significant, as it marks the first time this technology has been employed on a Ford Europe product.

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Michelin Investing Heavily in Poland

This autumn Michelin will launch production of new rubber mixes at its manufacturing site in Olsztyn, Poland. This comes as part of a £172 million investment program that also incorporates the construction of an adjacent logistics and warehousing centre. This investment program, Michelin’s largest in Europe, will create more than 500 new jobs.

The Olsztyn site first opened in 1967 and was incorporated into the Michelin Group in 1995. It is currently Michelin’s only facility in Poland.

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