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Goodyear DuraSeal truck tyre absorbs 367 punctures

Goodyear has shown the puncture resistance of its DuraSeal technology during a demonstration at the Mid-America Trucking Show in Louisville, Kentucky. Attendees drove 367 nail holes into a Goodyear G394 SST wide-base trailer tyre at the company’s booth, without any impact on its inflation. The tyre manufacturer has previously shown DuraSeal-incorporated tyres at events in Europe, such as Tip-Ex at North Yorkshire’s Harrogate International Centre in 2011, where it displayed its Omnitrac MSS II and MSD II tyres.

13th April 2012/by Tyrepress Editors

Retread Tire Association to exhibit at Reifen 2012

Harvey Brodsky, Retread Tire Association’s managing director, has announced that the association will feature at Messe Essen during Europe’s largest tyre exhibition. Reifen 2012 takes place between 5 and 8 June 2012, and the RTA booth (4.0-128 in Hall 4.0) will feature copies of RTA news releases, newsletters, casing & supplier memos, and more.

13th April 2012/by Tyrepress Editors

VTS launches vintage tyre kit

“A serviced tyre is a happy tyre,” that’s what the purveyors of fine vintage tyres at Vintage Tyre Supplies say. But old or not, as the only contact a car has with the road, tyres are perhaps the most critical factor in road safety and they are also a big investment. With this in mind, Vintage Tyres have created this unique tyre service kit as part of their 50th celebrations.

11th April 2012/by Tyrepress Editors

Tech Europe launches new website

Tech Europe, the European arm of Tech International, a producer of tyre repair materials and wheel service solutions, headquartered in Lisburn, Northern Ireland, has launched a new website at www.techeurope.co.uk. The site offers an overview of Tech Europe’s product offering, as well as providing detailed information on the company, its current distribution network, and on-going activities.

11th April 2012/by Tyrepress Editors

GT Radial demonstrates winter tyre capabilities at Finnish proving ground

GT Radial took its European dealers to Test World’s Mellatracks Proving Ground in Ivalo, Finland on 19-24 March to test the Champiro WinterPro and studded Champiro IcePro winter tyres. Facing a range of snow and ice handling tests, the brand showed its winter tyres’ ability; the unstudded WinterPro, most suitable for European markets such as Germany and the growing UK segment, is TÜV-SÜD accredited, having completed a tyre comparison test in 2010.

5th April 2012/by Tyrepress Editors

Hankook takes over as Formula 3 Euro tyre supplier

Last year Kumho announced it would cease its nine year-tenure as tyre supply to the Formula 3 Euro Series at the end of 2011. The series, run as part of the Hankook-supplied German Touring Car Masters (DTM), now has a new sole tyre supplier. Unsurprisingly, it’s Hankook.

5th April 2012/by Tyrepress Editors

Trelleborg rebrands Elite and Premia ranges

Trelleborg Wheel Systems has launched a media and online campaign to promote the rebranding of its Elite XP and Premia tyre lines, Tire Review Reports. Called “high performing resilient tyres,” the new-look lines will feature the Trelleborg brand name and logo on the sidewall.

4th April 2012/by Tyrepress Editors

GT Radial to launch first commercial retread at Commercial Vehicle Show

GT Radial has announced that it will unveil its first commercial retread tyre product, the GT REE Tread, at The Commercial Vehicle Show 2012. With the brand representing an acronym for “Reliable, Economical and Environmental”, GT REE Tread is a high quality, hot cure bead-to-bead retread built on GT Radial casings. The company will present the tyre alongside its other new commercial products, the GSR220 steer axle pattern and the GDL617 non-directional long haul drive axle pattern, on Stand G40, in Hall 2.

3rd April 2012/by Tyrepress Editors

GT Radial’s tyre pressure warning as UK heats up

The UK’s weather and public feeling about further hikes in fuel costs are heating up, but cooler tyre industry heads at distributor GT Radial are suggesting that road users could save around 15 pence per litre of fuel by ensuring their tyres are properly inflated. The manufacturer’s representatives say the problem of under-inflation is compounded by the shifting seasonal temperature; as the UK’s weather starts to warm up, tyres will start to lose air more quickly than during the winter months, said the company’s managing director for Europe, Richard Lyons.

2nd April 2012/by Tyrepress Editors

Borbet aiming for 17 million output

According to Jürgen Gareis, plant manager at alloy wheel manufacturer Borbert’s Thuringia factory in Germany and managing director of Borbert Thüringen GmbH, the company’s cast aluminium wheel plants in Hallenberg-Hesborn and Medebach, both in Germany’s Sauerland region, combine to make up Europe’s largest wheel production complex. Company boss and (with a 76 per cent share) majority shareholder Peter Wilhelm Borbet points out the factories may not qualify for this distinction as they are not under the same roof. But whatever way you look at it, the figures are impressive: In 2012 the major OEM wheel supplier projects an output of four million units from these plants.

2nd April 2012/by Tyrepress Editors

Alcoa opens new European fleet service centre

Alcoa Wheel Products Europe has announced the opening of its European Fleet Service Center, operational from 1 April, 2012. Located in Paal, Belgium, the Fleet Service Center will provide direct service to Alcoa wheel users, serving the majority of the European countries, according to Alcoa. The company says that the new facility will “improve the service level with better and faster support to Alcoa wheel customers”.

2nd April 2012/by Tyrepress Editors

Hofmann Power Weight to exhibit new products at Reifen

The makers of the Hofmann Power Weight brand of balancing weights will present various innovations and new products at this year's international tyre fair in Essen between 5 and 8 June (hall 1.0, stand 411). The theme at the Wegmann Automotive stand will be motor sports, a sector that’s all about speed. Wegmann has chosen to go for a motor sport motif as it says its new products, which have been developed on the race track and optimised for the workshop, can be mounted extremely quickly and easily.

29th March 2012/by Tyrepress Editors

Maxxis joins EDIWheel

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Maxxis has announced that it has become the most recent tyre manufacturer to sign up with EDIWheel. “The economic environment means that tyre retailers are looking to maximise their existing resources to reduce the costs involved in running their businesses and EDIWheel represents a no cost benefit to them because they do not have to upgrade their software to access it,” says Maxxis International UK’s managing director Derek McMartin.

29th March 2012/by Tyrepress Editors

Yokohama BluEarth AE-01 to be available worldwide

Yokohama’s general manager of its Tire Global Product Planning Division, Shigeo Komatsu announced the release of its new BluEarth AE-01 onto the European market at the Geneva Motorshow. The AE-01 is a latest generation tyre for passenger cars in the fuel-efficient BluEarth tyre series. It will be available in 40 sizes from 155/80R13 79T to 205/55R16 91H and will be sold around the world, starting in Europe.

29th March 2012/by Tyrepress Editors

Liquidator takes control of Dunlop India assets

On 26 March the Calcutta High Court appointed a provisional liquidator to assume charge of the assets belonging to Dunlop India Ltd. This measure has stripped the company’s board of directors and chairman Pawan Kumar Ruia of the power to transfer further assets or property from the company. The court’s official liquidator will serve as provisional liquidator, and in addition to conducting an inventory of existing assets he will attempt to recover any prior Dunlop India asset transfers deemed to be fraudulent in nature; according to Justice Sanjib Banerjee, the liquidator will take steps to reclaim properties sold by Dunlop in 2006-07.

27th March 2012/by Tyrepress Editors