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“Hopping back to the future” – Trelleborg’s 3D movie

When you think of Trelleborg you will probably think of industrial or agricultural tyres. You may think of rubber products in general. But would you associate the Swedish firm with the movies?

Trelleborg has launched a new 3D animated movie which is available on YouTube via its social media channel, TrelleborgAgri. The film, created using 3D animation techniques, tells the life story of a smart cartoon cricket that starts his own agricultural business and miniature farm. The story, which begins in 1955, follows the cricket ‘farmer’ through the ages, following his journey as he comes face-to-face with evolving tractor generations. From x-ply tires, through to upgraded tractors equipped with radial technology tires; the cricket must learn how to survive and work alongside these new technologies.

17th April 2013/12,345 Comments/by Tyrepress Editors

Amiens lawsuit seeks to block Goodyear plant closure

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When Maurice Taylor visited Goodyear’s plant in Amiens, France, he claims to have observed workers talking for several hours a day instead of getting busy with the tasks they were paid to do, and when he challenged them about this they replied it was “the French way.” Now the Amiens plant workers are engaging in a behaviour more in line with the American way – they have sued Goodyear Tire & Rubber.

10th April 2013/12,345 Comments/by Tyrepress Editors

Hankook takes on Junior WRC tyre supply

This year, Hankook takes over from Pirelli as sole supplier of the newly-renamed Junior WRC Championship. The Korean manufacturer will provide the series – which used to be known as the WRC Academy – with tyres from its Ventus range. The Ventus Z range will be used for tarmac rallies and the Venus R during gravel events. Both tyres have tread patterns specifically designed for use on front-wheel-drive cars such as the Ford Fiesta R2, the car all entrants in the 2013 FIA Junior WRC Championship will drive. Detailed tyre specifications and the number of tyres to be provided to competitors will be announced prior to each championship round.

8th April 2013/12,345 Comments/by Tyrepress Editors

Goodyear aiming to lead in tyre labelling

As we saw in March, the new Goodyear EfficientGrip comes in at BA 65dB on the European tyre label. With further additions said to be on their way, this puts the manufacturer in a leading position both within its own stable (Dunlop offers dry and high performance biased characteristics that don’t look as good as this on a label) and in the wider market. Following the introduction of the latest EfficientGrip Goodyear Dunlop reports that it covers three out of four sizes of Europe’s high performance summer tyre market tyres labelled CC or above.

5th April 2013/12,345 Comments/by Tyrepress Editors

Two-thirds of Pneu Expo exhibitors returning next year

The organiser of last month’s Pneu Expo in France reports that 100 exhibitors from 17 countries displayed their wares at the three-day show. Exhibitor numbers were thus similar to the previous show, and organiser Editions VB says two thirds of the 2013 exhibitors have signed up for the next event.

3rd April 2013/12,345 Comments/by Tyrepress Editors

Infinity exhibits new for 2013 5-tyre PCR tyre range

Infinity Tyres has exhibited the three latest additions to its range at events in France and Spain. Joining the recent performance geared passenger car tyre lines, the Ecomax and the Ecosis, the Ecopioneer, Enviro and Ecovantage patterns were displayed at Pneu Expo in Lyon and at Madrid’s Motortec Automechanika Ibérica. The two performance PCR products have begun shipping to Europe from China’s Shandong Linglong plant, which manufactures the brand, while the other new models will arrive later in the year to complete a full 13-19 inch line-up in 2013.

2nd April 2013/12,345 Comments/by Tyrepress Editors

European CV registrations fall for 14th month in a row

Figures for CV registrations in Europe, released by ACEA, show that they fell by 13.3 per cent in February and were down -11.9 per cent over the first two months, year on year. February was the fourteenth consecutive month that demand for commercial vehicles in the EU was down.

28th March 2013/12,345 Comments/by Tyrepress Editors

Metzeler voted best tyre brand by German magazine

Metzeler’s domination of the tyre category in German motorcycling magazine Motorrad’s Best Brand awards continues this year. The tyre maker has taken the category award on four of the eight occasions it has been contested; this year Metzeler gained the support of 64.8 per cent of the 30,245 Motorrad readers who participated in voting for the awards.

28th March 2013/12,345 Comments/by Tyrepress Editors

French customs controls – a nod to Titan comments?

France’s minister of industrial renewal seems to have been good to his word; in February he responded to Titan boss Maurice Taylor’s intention to ship “all the tyres France needs” by saying the country would control any such move with a “redoubled zeal”. And it looks as if this is precisely what is happening: French media sources state that on 20 March Montebourg asked the customs service to “to enforce French law, in particular when it comes to tyres produced in conditions that sometimes do not respect environmental and technical norms.” Although Titan International was specifically named in the minister’s instruction, it has been interpreted by many in the context of Montebourg’s recent correspondence with Maurice Taylor.

21st March 2013/12,345 Comments/by Tyrepress Editors

Goodyear adds ‘Performance’ variant to EfficientGrip range

Goodyear has revealed details of its latest efforts to take a lead in the post-labelling era of tyre development, refreshing its passenger car range with the launch of the Efficient Grip Performance. While the tyre is inched out of the highest possible European Tyre labelling score (AA), with the 205/55 R16 tyre scoring AB 68dB it is not far away at all.

20th March 2013/12,345 Comments/by Tyrepress Editors

Lanxess to switch Triunfo plant to S-SBR production

Based on the results of a feasibility study, German chemicals firm Lanxess has opted to convert its Triunfo factory in southern Brazil from the manufacture of emulsion styrene butadiene rubber (E-SBR), as used in standard tyres, to solution styrene butadiene rubber (S-SBR), which is used in used in high-performance, green tyres. Lanxess notes that it is the first company to carry out such a conversion.

5th March 2013/12,345 Comments/by Tyrepress Editors

Bridgestone to close Italian pcr plant

Last May, Bridgestone celebrated the golden jubilee of its Bari passenger car tyre factory in Italy. There will be no diamond jubilee, however; on 4 March, Bridgestone Europe stated that the plant will be closed. Operations at the Bari facility are expected to cease within the first half of 2014, although the exact timing of the closure, along with terms and conditions, are yet to be discussed. Bridgestone says it is “immediately available to start the discussion to identify the best solution in order to minimise, as much as possible, the social impact of the decision on the approximately 950 employees involved, in line with the culture of the group.”

5th March 2013/12,345 Comments/by Tyrepress Editors

Leszek Szafran new Goodyear Dunlop Europe retread director

Goodyear Dunlop Tires Europe has appointed Leszek Szafran as Director Retread Operations Europe Middle East and Africa (EMEA). He will take over the position from Hubert Moquet, who retires after more than 34 years’ service with the company.

4th March 2013/12,345 Comments/by Tyrepress Editors

Commercial vehicle sales fall across Europe

Demand for new heavy trucks (over 16 tonnes, excluding buses and coaches) declined the most sharply across segments in January (-18.4 per cent), totalling 15,510 vehicles. All major markets contracted, from -9.3 per cent in Italy to -11.1 per cent in Spain, -15.4 per cent in France and -22.0 per cent in Germany and the UK.

1st March 2013/12,345 Comments/by Tyrepress Editors

European CV registrations down 10.6 per cent in January

Figures released by ACEA show that new commercial vehicle registrations further declined in January (-10.6 per cent), pursuing a downward trend which prevailed throughout 2012.

28th February 2013/12,345 Comments/by Tyrepress Editors