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SEMA Show 2006: Conti Launches New ContiSportContact 3

(Las Vegas/Tire Review) Continental Tire North America is using the SEMA Show to launch the ContiSportContact 3 performance tyre line. Released in Europe earlier this year, the tyre makes its North American debut this week in Las Vegas. Already OE on the Audi TT and A6, the ContiSportContact 3 was developed for high performance vehicles and provides shorter braking distances, enhanced handling characteristics and superior grip on wet roads, according to CTNA.

31st October 2006/by Tyrepress Editors

Pirelli Price Increase

Pirelli & Co SpA has announced it will increase the price of its passenger car, light truck and SUV by an average 5 per cent across Europe and export markets by the end of 2006. All brands within the Pirelli group will be affected by the increase.

30th October 2006/by Tyrepress Editors

AIRP to Take Action Against Non-ECE-Certified Retreaders

There has not been any seismic shifts in the market since the UN-ECE regulations 108 and 109 were made mandatory in Europe on 13 September 2006. Many retreaders were already working according to these new regulations voluntary. Now, four week after the regulations came into effect, the Italian Tyre Retreaders Association AIRP has discussed ways of dealing with the black sheep in the Italien retreading industry and whether legel steps should be taken. There are currently 66 truck and passenger car tyre retreading plants in Italy which are operated by AIRP members.

27th October 2006/by Tyrepress Editors

New President & CEO For SmarTire

The board of directors of SmarTire Systems Inc. has promoted Vice President of Sales and Marketing, David Warkentin to President & Chief Executive Officer of SmarTire. Prior to joining SmarTire in August 2005, Warkentin was the vice president of sales for Intrinsyc Software International, Inc., a Canadian public company that provides engineering services to wireless mobile device makers and licensable software for the wireless telephone handset market.

24th October 2006/by Tyrepress Editors

Bandag’s Third Quarter Figures: Europe Remains the Problem

Bandag, Inc. was able to increase its turnover in the third quarter to $260.2 million; up by 5.2 per cent compared to the second quarter of this year and reaching a new record high. Compared to the same quarter last year turnover grew by 6.1 per cent. However, net income plummeted by 50.8 per cent. Bandag, Inc. based in Muscatine, Iowa, only achieved a net income of $9.2 million compared to $18.7 million for the same quarter last year. This net income equals a 3.5 per cent margin on Bandag’s turnover. Compared to the previous quarter the net income only fell by 12.4 per cent from $10.5 million. Obviously Europe remains the problem, as can be read up in Bandag’s current quarter report.

20th October 2006/by Tyrepress Editors

Alcoa Wheels Keep Action Cancer Big Bus Rolling

Alcoa Wheel Products has a policy of contributing to the communities in which it operates and a good example is the company’s support of Action Cancer, Northern Ireland’s leading cancer charity, with the donation of a set of Alcoa Dura-Bright wheels. The charity recently made a substantial investment in a new high tech “state of the art” purpose built vehicle called Big Bus. This mobile unit was constructed by Browns Coach Works in Northern Ireland and is pulled by a new Volvo FH 400, the first Euro 5 in Europe. This unit was supported by Volvo GB and supplied by Volvo’s Northern Ireland dealer Dennison Commercials. Alcoa’s donation of Dura-Bright wheels will help keep the Big Bus looking good and easy to clean.

18th October 2006/by Tyrepress Editors

China’s Vehicle Imports Up 72 per cent

Vehicle imports into China totalled 147,000 units in the first eight months of this year, the Xinhua news agency has reported. This is up almost 72 per cent on a year earlier. The imports were worth US$4.84 billoin and most came from Europe, South Korea and the US. Luxury cars and SUVs with engines of over three litres accounted for 49,000 of the vehicles imported. This was up 110 per cent on a year ago. The main buyers of SUVs were described by China’s General Administration of Customs as private mine owners, real estate developers and owners of private entertainment businesses. China lowered import tariffs on cars, cross-country vehicles and mini-buses from 28 per cent to 25 per cent on 1 July.

13th October 2006/by Tyrepress Editors

Investments Boost Rockingham’s Success

Since Corby Developments Limited acquired the majority shareholding in the Rockingham racing circuit in late 2005, it has implemented a £5 million development plan to give the circuit a major makeover. Billing itself as “Europe’s fastest motor racing circuit” – a claim based on the fact that in 2001 Tony Kanaan went round Rockingham’s 1.5 mile oval in 24.719 seconds in his Ford/Lola Champ car – the scope of the facilities now available at Rockingham has attracted a number of events. This year the circuit has already hosted the Avon-sponsored British GT, 2006 Pickup Truck Racing Championship, SCSA Third Round and the Rockingham VSR Championship.

12th October 2006/by Tyrepress Editors

Sava Tires Moves Within Goodyear

Goodyear-owned tyre maker Sava Tires, one of Slovenia’ largest exporters, has become part of a new organisational structure of 11 Central and Eastern European countries. The move has reportedly been made to make the company more responsive and does not entail moving production away from Kranj, Sava Tires said in a press release on 2 October.

10th October 2006/by Tyrepress Editors

Michelin Alpin Recommended by ADAC

The new Michelin Alpin cold weather tyre has been awarded the highest rating – ‘highly recommendable’ in a comparative test conducted by ADAC, the German Automobile Association and Europe’s largest automobile club. ADAC, together with its Austrian and Swiss counterparts—Österreischischer Automobil Motorrad und Touring Club (ÖAMTC) and Touring Club Suisse (TCS)—compared nineteen 185/60 R14 cold weather tyres.

10th October 2006/by Tyrepress Editors

Advan Named as Control Tyre for New Series

Yokohama has announced that it will supply an Advan branded control tyre for a new race series that will form part of the support package for the Advan-equipped 2007 FIA World Touring Car Championship. Currently called Formula S2000, the new series will feature identical single-seater chassis powered by a 250bhp four-cylinder engine and running on control Yokohama Advan tyres.

10th October 2006/by Tyrepress Editors

Yellow Sea to Launch PC Tyres in Europe

Up till now the Qingdao Yellow Sea Tyre Factory hasn’t sold its radial passenger car tyres on the European market. The company was founded in 1986 and currently produces about 1.5 million tyres, 600,000 of which are radial PC tyres. These tyres are imported, says sales and operation manager Tao Rung Wu. But because the company has not yet received an E-mark for its products, it has been impossible to export these products into Europe. This will change in the near future, Mr Tao asserts. In this context Yellow Sea Tyre is announcing the expansion of its production capacity from 600,000 radial PC tyres to about 1.5 million units from next March when they will also get their products E-marked. Right now the company has “very limited capacity”. It is not yet clear yet how this capacity increase might interfere with the limited number of radial PC tread patters (four) and dimensions between 13 and 16 inches.

3rd October 2006/by Tyrepress Editors

Goodtyre Presses Forward Into Europe

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Although the domestic Chinese tyre market is growing at an enormous rate, export markets are also offering an ever more tempting business opportunity for tyre manufacturers from China. In light of major production over-capacities in particular in the PC tyre segment European and American tyre markets almost assure profitable and relatively easy growth perspectives to Chinese tyre companies. The Yinbao Tyre Group for example is one company that is currently adjusting its own growth strategy towards a more international standing. The company is based in the city of Shouguang in Shandong province. Export manager Sino He explains that the company, which was founded in 1994 has sold its truck, OTR and industrial tyres on the domestic market until very recently. It is offering the tyre brands Goodtyre, Yinbao and Huibao.

2nd October 2006/by Tyrepress Editors

Trelleborg Phases Out Pirelli Brand

The Agricultural & Forestry Tyres division of Trelleborg is publicising its new brand strategy. On 25 and 26 September in Italy, Trelleborg invited more than 80 journalists from Europe and North America and 40 top managers of global major tractor makers to hear about its strategic plans for driving the brand transition from Pirelli Agricultural Tyres to Trelleborg. Basically Trelleborg plans to strengthen its brand in order to make it an “autonomous and synonymous specialization in agriculture.”

29th September 2006/by Tyrepress Editors

PCL Helps Inflate Production For Wheel Solutions

PCL’s digital inflation kits have increased production by up to 15 per cent on Wheel Solutions’ assembly line. Safe and fast inflation is vital to Wheel Solution’s reputation as a leading importer and supplier of wheels and tyres for the turf, agricultural, trailer, caravan, mobile home, materials handling, plant and construction industries throughout the UK and Europe.

27th September 2006/by Tyrepress Editors