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Grouptyre Launches Latest Pirelli Promotion

Following on from two highly successful national incentives held in conjunction with Pirelli this year, Grouptyre has announced a further promotion. This latest promotion will run from October 1 and November 30 and once again aims to build retail sales through the independent sector. Tyre retailers and auto servicing businesses will be entered into a prize draw based on the number of Pirelli car, van and 4×4 tyres bought from their local Grouptyre member during the promotion period. Winners of the two top prizes will enjoy a VIP trip to Italy, including a visit to Maranello, the base for Ferrari’s GT car production and home to the Ferrari Formula One team.

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TRIB’s Harvey Brodsky to Address Italian Retreading General Assembly

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Harvey Brodsky, managing director of TRIB, the Tire Retread & Repair Information Bureau, is to appear as a featured speaker at the general assembly of the Italian Tyre Retreaders Association (the Associazione Italiana Ricostruttori Pneumatici, or AIRP) in Rome on October 8 and 9. TRIB says that Brodsky’s presentation will highlight the current situation of the North American retreading industry in comparison with that in Italy and other parts of the world.

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Monza to Provide “Emotional” Final European GP for Bridgestone

Bridgestone is to supply its Potenza tyres to Formula One for the final time in Europe this weekend, when the 2010 season enters its final four races with a trip to Monza. The Italian Grand Prix offers the challenge of one of the highest top speeds, with long straights bringing low downforce configurations into play, thus putting greater mechanical stress on the tyres. The tyre supplier is bringing its hard and soft compounds to the track for what its Motorsport director Hiroshi Yasukawa says will be “a very emotional… race for us”.

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Yokohama to Display New ‘Zenvironment’ Products at IAA 2010

Yokohama has been promoting its ‘Zenvironment’ concept – the reduction of global emissions through tyres that last longer, are retreadable and can be recycled – in Europe since 2008. The current range includes the 104ZR steer axle and 901ZS winter steer axle fitments, and at the upcoming IAA commercial vehicle show in Hannover, Germany, the company intends to extend its Zenvironment portfolio. New additions to be shown in Hannover include the prototype 106ZS steer axle tyre and 107ZL steer axle tyre for long-haul operations.

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Pirelli ‘Satisfied’ With F1 Tyre Performance in First Test

Two days of Formula One tyre testing concluded on August 18, and Pirelli discloses the purpose of this first test was to begin the process of determining the front and rear tyre profile and construction that will be used as the basis of its new PZero Formula One tyre. Driver Nick Heidfeld spent the two days behind the wheel of a Toyota TF109 in predominately dry and sunny conditions at the Mugello circuit in Italy. Fitted to the Toyota F1 car were sample prototype versions of the new PZero.

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Hankook Eyes Premier League Football Deal, Extends European Sponsorship

While Hankook discloses the medium term aim of widening its football sponsorship strategy to include England’s Premier League and Italy’s A Series, it is currently furthering its commitments through new deals in Germany and Spain. In addition to extending its relationship with six times German league champion Borussia Dortmund, in the 2010/2011 season the tyre maker will also display advertisements at the home stadiums of four federal league teams: Bayer 04 Leverkusen, Eintracht Frankfurt, VfB Stuttgart and VfL Wolfsburg.

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Italian Tyre Business Website, Newsletter Launched

As of the beginning of this week tyrepress.com has a new partner website delivering the latest tyre business news in Italian, PneusNews.it. Describing itself as “the new online magazine for information, documentation and analysis dedicated to the tyre and wheel in Italy”, PneusNews.it comes from the company internationally renowned for producing Neue Reifenzeitung and reifenpresse.de, a magazine and website dedicated to the German-speaking market, and Tyres & Accessories and your current website tyrepress.com for English-speakers across the world. All three products have market-leading e-Newsletters providing cutting-edge news updates.

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Olympic Skier Harvests European Tractor Record

Sometimes you just have to do something to prove it can indeed be done. Olympic medallist Giorgio Di Centa may have had this thought in mind as he steered his tractor, a Same Silver3 110, up to a height of 3,175 metres at the Pirovano ski hut in Italy’s Stelvio Pass. Di Centa achieved this unusual goal using CGS manufactured Continental AC70 T agricultural tyres fitted with König snow chains. Upon his arrival, he could warm himself with the thought that he had driven a tractor higher than anyone else in Europe, a feat attested to by the Italian Timekeepers Association (Federazione Italiana Cronometristi). On his way to this dizzying height, Di Centa encountered terrain that varied between paved road, stone and ice.

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Snap-on Equipment On Show at Brityrex International

Snap-on Equipment is returning to Brityrex International in October where the firm will be showing its equipment portfolio on stand 11A. Purportedly Europe's leading manufacturer of garage equipment, Snap-on is aiming to make a big impact at Brityrex, showcasing a comprehensive range which includes tyre changers, wheel balancers and alignment systems.

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BIPAVER Appoints New President, Presidium

At its annual general assembly in June, members of the European retreading association BIPAVER elected a new presidium. Taking over the reins as president is former vice-president Jan Driessen, from VACO in the Netherlands. Former president, Italy’s Brenno Benaglia (AIRP) now serves in the capacity of vice-president, and Portugal’s José Silva Gomes, from the ANIRP, has been appointed second vice-president. The BIPAVER offices remain, as before, in the premises of the Dutch tyre organisation VACO.

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Ecclestone: F1 Needs Faster Wearing Tyres

Bernie Ecclestone believes faster wearing tyres will make for more exciting racing in Formula One. According to Tire Review, Ecclestone told Italy’s Gazzetta dello Sport he thinks F1 tyres should last no more than 100 kilometres, forcing teams into at least two pit stops. “People want more overtaking," Ecclestone states. “I have a proposal: tyre sets that can be used for a maximum of 100 kilometres, with the one used in qualifying to be used in the first part of the race. This way we'd have more tyre changes at different times and there would be more confusion. The best races are the messy ones.” Ecclestone made no mention that fuel stops have been eliminated from F1 races, removing as many as two pit stops per race.

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Pirelli Hosts China Football League Medical Exchange

Football sponsorship, as was witnessed during the World Cup, can give a tyre maker extensive exposure and media coverage. Pirelli is one of a number of firms that has decided to lend its support to the beautiful game, and the Italian company sponsors teams or associations in Italy, Switzerland, South America and China. Its involvement in the last of these regions is through a three-year title sponsorship agreement to Chinese Super League (CSL) – now known as Pirelli’s China Super League – which began in 2009. Recently, to boost the CSL medical team’s competencies in the area of sports injury treatment and rehabilitation, Pirelli arranged for doctors from 16 CSL teams travelled to Italy for a week-long exchange tour.

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Atturo Tire Targets Affordable SUV Market

Occupying a booth in Hall 2, Atturo Tire’s Michael Mathis was enthusiastic about the opportunity provided by Reifen to make contact with the company’s European dealers (Micheldever in the UK), while also gaining new distributors. Mathis mentioned Spain, Italy, Eastern Europe and the Middle East as the territories from which much of the traffic for the stand came. Though the company had expected “a higher quantity of visitors,” said Mathis, “the quality of the traffic has been good. In a month from now, I think we will be pretty satisfied,” he concluded.

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Pirelli Partners for Summer Safety

Italian drivers have earned themselves something of a reputation for not being Europe’s meekest motorists, so news of Pirelli’s co-presentation of a summer road safety campaign is very welcome indeed. On June 16 the tyre maker, in collaboration with ‘Autostrade per l’Italia’ and Telepass (the company that builds and manages Italy’s motorways and its electronic toll collection system), presented the “Safe&Go” summer road safety campaign, to be operated under the patronage of the Italy’s minister of Infrastructure and Transport, Altero Matteoli. The minister attended the launch along with Pirelli Group chairman Marco Tronchetti Provera, together with Giovanni Castellucci and Fabio Cerchiai, respectively the managing director and president ‘Autostrade per l’Italia’.

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New Dealers Added to Bandag’s European Network

Bandag has added new dealers in Italy and Latvia to its European network. La Rinnova Del Pneumatico – Arké s.r.l, of Podenzano, Italy, and Juva SIA of Riga, Latvia, have both signed Bandag franchise contracts, bringing the total number of Bandag dealers in Europe to more than 140.

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