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Marangoni’s plans for the Stunner brand

As from this spring, Marangoni Tyre is launching an effort to broaden its customer base in Germany – at the same increasing its tyre sales in general – for their second brand Stunner. New partners are being sought in the trade for the distribution of this second brand. The German market has so far not been very much exposed to Marangoni’s second brand, and the corporation hopes to introduce the tread design formerly known as ‘Zeta ESC’ to the market under the name of Stunner ‘Scudo’. The ‘Zeta Linea’, successor to the ‘Zeta ESC’, will take its place within the Marangoni product range, now that it is available in many new dimensions up to 19 inch. Further, at the Essen tyre trade show, Marangoni intends to announce that the ‘Vanto’ tyre model will take over from the ‘Heron’ model and the Italians will officially present this new tyre to the international trade press soon afterwards. The asymmetrical Vanto will be available in sizes up to 16 inch, maximum 235/55 R 16W and, according to PR and Communications Manager Mario Apolloni, its introduction will herald a ‘very special and important moment’ for Marangoni.

16th April 2002/by Tyrepress Editors

Quo Vadis, Continental?

The German manufacturer made a loss of more than 250 million Euro last year, due mainly to restructuring expenses. This means that the group is going to close tyre factories in Mexico as well as Austria, Belgium, Germany and Sweden. While the European Car tyre Division remained very successful, the same cannot be said for the Truck Tyre Division and the American tyre activities are also in deep water, facing big losses. On the other hand, the group has had to pay over 200 million Euro for the remaining 40 per cent of Temic, having purchased the first 60 per cent from DaimlerChrysler earlier last year, but Continental has been unable to sell ContiTech; nobody was willing to buy that part of the group, which the management believes is worth about 1 billion Euro. What are the choices facing Continental now? Will the group not be forced to sell General Tire and the Truck Division in order to focus on passenger car tyres and ContiTeves in the automotive field?

16th April 2002/by Tyrepress Editors

Growing Demand For Rayon Fabric – Cordenka

Cordenka, the industrial rayon producer, has reported increased demand for rayon tyre cord products converted into dipped cord fabric. The company supplies dipped cord fabric to the individual specifications of tyre manufacturers around the world; at present around 14,000 tonnes a year and rising, from its recently-modernised plant in Obernburg, Germany.

3rd April 2002/by Tyrepress Editors

VRG and Gummiwerke Fulda End Relationship

Gummiwerke Fulda has informed the third biggest cooperation in Germany, VRG, that it will terminate the contracts between the two of them. The tyre manufacturer is not satisfied with the situation, both in the past and at present, and believes that the relationship is not an equitable one, with VRG asking too much and offering too little.

22nd March 2002/by Tyrepress Editors

Tire Pressure Control At CeBIT

IMST GmbH (Kamp-Lintfort/Germany) and Automotive Technology NOLEX AG (St. Motitz/Switzerland) claim its jointly developed Tire Pressure Control (TPC) system to be a highlight of its own booth at the CeBIT computer show in Hanover. According to IMST the system is the first equipment of this kind for passenger car and truck tyres with bi-directional communication. In contrast to the current systems this allows to read out directly the sensors inside the tyres, giving the opportunity to receive the actual pressure situation at a touch of a button – independently of automatic intervals. This new system is a one-antenna-only design, which can reduce the time needed for installation. Due to the special housing design with a variable docking to the valve the tyre module can – as IMST and NOLEX say – be used for every wheel form without mechanical adjustments. It is ready to operate world-wide by only small amendments. TPC also opens up the possibility to combine tyre pressure control with keyless entry with the pressure data transmitted to the remote control key when opening the car.

18th March 2002/by Tyrepress Editors

Production Of MIRS Tyres In Höchst, Germany Going According To Plan

Pirelli’s German MIRS factory is now producing OE tyres for the Mini-Cooper car in size 205/45 17 Eufori@. Production is running with three lines and two others are being built, which will be producing tyres at the end of the year. Ultimately, in late 2004 or early 2005, there will be 13 lines producing 1.5 million high performance tyres a year, mainly for OE. At present, there are 50 people working in the MIRS factory and this will eventually rise to 250, including service staff. Total costs will be more than 100 million Euro and possibly as high as 120 million; Pirelli will not reveal the exact figure. MIRS makes it relatively easy for Pirelli to grow steadily in certain markets over a period of time, and this is the main advantage of the process, as it is not necessarily cheaper than the conventional production of UHP tyres. The first MIRS factory in Milan is a prototype plant, which develops and creates opportunities for new products. As well as Höchst, there is a MIRS factory at Burton-on-Trent, UK, which is not as large, and another MIRS plant at Rome, Georgia, USA is under construction. The plan to build a MIRS factory in Latin America has been abandoned, but Pirelli could build a plant in Japan, although no specific plans for a production base in Japan for OE business have been revealed.

18th March 2002/by Tyrepress Editors

Dr. Paolo Masera Back In Italy

Dr. Paolo Masera (60), who was MD for Pirelli in the UK for a short time and MD for Pirelli in Germany twice; the second time for only a few months, went to Brazil early in 2001. He now is back in Italy again to take over another leading position in Milan.

15th March 2002/by Tyrepress Editors

Tyres2Oil Development For Germany

Advanced Recycling Sciences (ARS) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Natur-Energie-Wertstoffrecycling Umwelt AG (NEW, Munich) to develop ARS Tires2Oil ™ technology in Germany. The arrangement will allow NEW to build a full scale facility by the second half of next year. NEW is negotiating with ARS to acquire a 5 per cent share of the new venture at Penkun. The process treats crumb rubber in a hydrocarbon-based solvent in thermodynamic conditions to depolymerise the rubber and recover carbon black and oil. The purified output will produce crude oil with a less than 15ppm sulphur content.

1st February 2002/by Tyrepress Editors

Minis For US Market On Goodyear Run-Flats

The new Mini Cooper and Mini Cooper S cars, now made by BMW, are due to arrive on the US market in March. The cars will be fitted with Goodyear NCT 5 EMT run-flat tyres, manufactured in Fulda, Germany. The tyre size is 195/55 VR15.

30th January 2002/by Tyrepress Editors

Insolvency At Intra

On January 16th, aluminium wheel manufacturing group Intra (Bruchsal/Germany) filed for insolvency. Elements of the group are the ILG casting facility, Intra Fleischmann + Wacker, Exip Autoparts and leasing company Intrex. The insolvency administrator has the task of saving as many of the 260 employee positions as possible and the intention to restructure the company, which is a key OE wheel supplier to Opel. Negotiations with credit institutions and suppliers are ongoing and production is being maintained.

18th January 2002/by Tyrepress Editors

Hayes Lemmerz Completes Sale of its System Service Division

Hayes Lemmerz International announced the sale of its non-core System Service business to Schedl Automotive System Service Beteiligungsgesellschaft mbH & Co. Verwaltungs-KG, in Germany. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Hayes Lemmerz acquired the System Service business in 1997 in connection with the acquisition of Lemmerz Holding GmbH. The business has approximately 250 employees and operates five tire and wheel assembly operations, one of which is a 49% joint venture (51% Continental in Portugal). These facilities are located in Belgium, Germany, the Czech Republic and Portugal.

15th January 2002/by Tyrepress Editors

Exclusive Distribution of Alliance

German wholesaler Bohnenkamp (Osnabrück) has been the exclusive distributor for the Israeli agricultural tyre manufacturer Alliance in Germany, Austria, Poland, Hungary and Czech Republic since the beginning of July. With this step Bohnenkamp intends to underline its leading position in the distribution of imported tyres. The company has been chosen by Alliance due to its elaborate distribution network and flexible logistics. Alliance offers more than 500 different sizes in the agricultural, MPT-, EM- and industrial tyres sectors and presents – in the neighbourhood of Bohnenkamp – a completely renewed product range with many new profiles and dimensions.

28th December 2001/by Tyrepress Editors

Heinz-Theo Pecher To Take Over Top Position At VRG

Heinz-Theo Pecher (57), who has spent 26 years working in the tyre industry in different leading positions, is now working for VRG in Norderstedt/Hamburg. VRG is a large buying group for tyre dealers. On 1st January 2002 Pecher will take over as managing director from Klaus Heymann, who is to retire but will act as a consultant until the end of June 2002. Pecher came from Continental, where he was responsible for the German truck business replacement market (all brands). He sees excellent opportunities for VRG in a fast moving market. In the future, VRG will focus not only on Germany but also on Austria, Switzerland and Denmark, as well as the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Poland.

28th December 2001/by Tyrepress Editors

DaimlerChrysler Awards For Eight Goodyear Plants

Eight Goodyear factories have earned the DaimlerChrysler Gold Award, given in recognition of outstanding service. Seven of the plants are in North America and one is in Europe, at Philippsburg, in Germany. Goodyear was rated as “excellent” in the areas of quality, delivery, competitive pricing and technology and “acceptable” in customer support.

10th December 2001/by Tyrepress Editors

Winter Tyre Sales Stable In Germany

Sales of Winter Tyres for 2000 were in line with those for the previous year. Roughly 16 million winter tyres were supplied to dealers in Germany last season. 1999 was a record year with sales of 16.1 million winter tyres. However, the Continental Group has been successful in increasing its market share of that figure to around 33%.

30th November 2001/by Tyrepress Editors