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Goodyear’s Increases US Conveyor Belt Production

Flying in the face of suggestions that the US is outsourcing all of its positions abroad, Goodyear has announced that its new belt plant has increased its production capacity, while creating more jobs. In the past year the company has created more than 100 job, increasing its workforce by more than 35 per cent. The company says its expansion is a result of “growing demand from stepped up global mining activity.”

The Marysville plant is currently producing one of the largest orders in the plant’s 37-year history to be shipped to Latin America. The Goodyear Flexsteel ST3600 steel-cord conveyor belt is eight miles long and weighs 1,300 tons. When completed, the order will be shipped to one of the world’s largest open-pit mines located in the Atacama Desert of Chile, which produces copper, gold and silver.

According to Dennis Hare, business manager for Goodyear’s conveyor belt products, the overland belt will transport crushed ore four miles to the mine’s processing plant for separation of metals.

13th December 2004/by Tyrepress Editors

Several Hundred Jobs in Danger at Conti

Continental AG is currently contemplating the possibility of phasing out passenger car tyre production at its primary facility in Hanover-Stöcken, chairman Manfred Wennemer told a works meeting yesterday. Now, the company will examine whether or not passenger car tyres can still be produced profitably. The problem, according to a company spokesman, is the “development of the market and of the costs.” Currently Continental is producing at full capacity, but it is difficult to say whether or not it will be in the same position in a year’s time, added the spokesman. Therefore Mr Wennemer has already informed the staff “we are reviewing the situation at the moment.” One possibility in order to improve the competitiveness of Hanover as a production base, in comparison with Otrokovice (Czech Republic) and Timisioara (Romania), would be to increase worker’s hours without increasing wages.

350 people are employed at the Hannover-Stöcken facility where 1.5 million passenger car tyres are produced each year. According to the company, the announcement only refers to passenger car tyre production – other segments will remain unaffected.

9th December 2004/by Tyrepress Editors

Nokian Sells Bicycle Tyre Business

Nokian Tyres has confirmed that it has sold its factory premises in the town of Lieksa for a total of 3.6 million euros. The Finnish company sold the bicycle tyre business to Suomen Rengastehdas Oy. According to Nokian, the new owners took over the management of the plant straight away and will provide contract-manufacturing services to Nokian. All personnel, a total of 59 employees, are to keep their jobs working at the Bicycle Tyres profit centre and in heavy inner tube manufacture.

Suomen Rengastehdas Oy is a subsidiary of Suomen Kumitehdas Oy. The companies are engaged in the manufacture of bicycle tyres, rubber boots, footwear and other rubber products, and in the reprocessing of rubber. The principal owners of the companies are Mr Arto Huhtinen and Mrs Tuire Erkkilä, both previously members of Nokian Jalkineet Oy’s (Nokian Footwear) management.

In 2003 the Lieksa plant manufactured 784,000 bicycle tyres and inner tubes.

1st December 2004/by Tyrepress Editors

Michelin Transfers Formula 1 Boss

Michelin’s Formula 1 boss, Pascal Vasselon, has changed jobs into serial tyre production. The move is an apparent reaction to the fact that Michelin has failed to achieve a world championship in four years of commitment, online news portal F1total.com reports.
It has not yet been decided who will be the 41 year old’s successor. The exact reasons for Mr Vasselon’s displacement also remain unclear, as he was generally regarded as an integral and highly esteemed part of Michelin’s Formula 1 team.

30th November 2004/by Tyrepress Editors

Continental and USWA Bargain Over Severance Package

Continental and the USWA are in the process of negotiating a severance agreement for the workers affected by the closure of the company’s Mayfield plant. The two sides are at loggerheads over the package, which the company sees as generous, but the union calls an insult.

The union is unhappy about the company’s proposals. These include a lump-sum severance payment of up to $8,000 per worker, a maximum 30 day health insurance cover and a special fund of more than $1.1 million to help displaced workers find jobs, retraining, health care, relocation and other transition expenses.

Continental plans to cease production by 31 December and shift work elsewhere, leaving 60 workers in tyre mixing and warehousing and hundreds unemployed.

22nd November 2004/by Tyrepress Editors

Michelin Russia to Treble Production

Jean-Yves Caux, managing director of Michelin’s Russian business has said that the company expects to treble its tyre production capacity by the end of 2005. The expansion plans are due to take place at the company’s Davydovo site, outside Moscow and will increase the plant’s production rate from 2000 to 6000 tyres a day. Speaking to French newspaper La Tribune, Mr Caux said Michelin will invest 18 million euros between 2004 and 2005 on top of the 70 million the company has already invested. The managing director did not rule out further investment in the country. According to the report, Michelin says it will create up to 200 new jobs in order to keep up with demand. The new jobs will be in addition to the company’s existing workforce of 754, of these 650 are presently based at the Davydovo site.

17th November 2004/by Tyrepress Editors

Toyo Prepares Small-Lot Production in US

Toyo Tire has released details of its US production plant, several weeks after laying the foundation stone for the Cartersville, Georgia, production facility. According to Deutsche Bank, the Japanese tyre manuafacturer is going to install a flexible, automated production system which is well suited for small-lot production. This is said to produce better quality products than conventional methods. The company calls the system its Advanced Tyre Operation Module or ATOM.

Toyo Tire first announced this production system two years ago and developed the technology with support from Toyota Motor, running pilot production schemes in Japan. The new factory, Toyo’s first US tyre production facility, will cost $392 million and will create up to 900 jobs. The factory will have an annual capacity of two million passenger car and light truck tyres after construction is completed in 2006.

12th November 2004/by Tyrepress Editors

Michelin Suffers Court Defeat

Michelin employees made redundant at the company’s Soisson plant have won their court case. The employees lost their jobs when the company sold its bicycle plant to Wolber. The new owners subsequently moved production to India. In the meantime the number of employees still disputing the situation shrank to 115. Now a court has ruled in the employees’ favour, stating that Michelin should offer the employees adequate jobs in other business premises and that they should receive remuneration from the company.

11th November 2004/by Tyrepress Editors

Trelleborg to Transfer Production

Trelleborg AB has called for negotiations with the relevant unions about the closure of its manufacturing facility in the town of Trelleborg. The company says the decision has been made against the background of a diminishing market for the type of agricultural tyres it produces in the town.

27th October 2004/by Tyrepress Editors

Continental Invests in Slovakia

Continental AG, has announced that it has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Ministry of Economy of the Slovak Republic.

25th October 2004/by Tyrepress Editors

AA Calls Time on Mobile Tyre Fitting Service

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The AA has announced that it intends to close AA Tyre Fit, which currently provides a national mobile tyre fitting through a fleet of 130 vehicles, and its Vehicle Inspections business, currently offering inspections on used cars for consumers. According to the company, both businesses have been operating at a loss.

14th October 2004/by Tyrepress Editors

Continental Lays Cornerstone for New Plant in Brazil

Continental AG, is boosting its presence on the worldwide tyre market, having laid the cornerstone for a new tyre plant in Camacari in the Brazilian state of Bahia.

5th October 2004/by Tyrepress Editors

Continental Threatens Engineers

According to German media sources Continental is threatening engineers to relocate development resources from Hanover to countries such as the Czech Republic, Romania or Malaysia if they do not agree on proposals to increase weekly working times from 37.5 to 40 hours – without an increase in earnings.

Negociations between employees and the German tyre manufacturer will be held early next week. If an agreement is not reached130 jobs in the R&D department, where there are 700 employees in total, would be threatened according to Bernhard Trilken, chief of truck tyre development in Hanover-Stöcken.

30th September 2004/by Tyrepress Editors

Union Asks Continental to Reconsider Mayfield Closure

Union representatives from Continental’s Mayfield tyre plant have asked company officials to reconsider a decision to close its Mayfield plant.

24th September 2004/by Tyrepress Editors

ACEA Condemns Proposal to Abolish Design Rights for Spare Parts

The European Automobile Manufacturers Association has criticised the European Commission’s decision to adopt the proposal prepared by Commissioner Bolkestein (Internal Market) aimed at abolishing design protection rights for automotive spare parts across the EU. The ACEA strongly believes that if approved, this measure would have a serious impact on the competitiveness of the European industry, and claims that the proposal has no clear benefits for the consumer.

22nd September 2004/by Tyrepress Editors