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Strategic Partnership Beneficial to Both Marangoni & Fedi Gomme

Italy’s Fedi Gomme Srl, a provider of total tyre outsourcing for large transport fleets, has established a strategic partnership with the Marangoni Group. This partnership, says Marangoni, will allow Fedi Gomme to expand its business abroad and Marangoni to create a replicable model for the benefit of its customers.

The transport and logistics business is evolving, and an increasing number of companies are now finding it significantly more convenient to outsource the management of their tyres to specialist companies. Fedi Gomme, as one such service provider, has as customers some of the main players in the Italian logistics and road transport industry.

15th October 2008/by Tyrepress Editors

Advanced ID Predicts 400% Increase in 4Q Revenue

Advanced ID Corporation, the parent company of tyre management RFID specialists Pneu-Logic, is predicting it will record a 400 per cent increase in fourth quarter revenues following the acquisition of Shenzhen DDCT Technology Co. The company earlier announced that DDCT has developed RFID readers and modules that are capturing major tenders and orders in their respective RFID sectors. Several contracts have already been negotiated and are seen as the key reason for the predicted growth.

Dan Finch, president and CEO, said: “We are more than pleased with DDCT as our new acquisition. Working with Cherry Lim, our country manager and Mr. Siyou Su, chairman of DDCT, we have received confirmation of projects that will start before the end of 2008. We have funded the infrastructure for our new location in Shenzhen and are completing production and manufacturing on those projects as we speak.” Mr. Su commented in an earlier press release on his projections for 2009 of US$12 Million and is very confident that this will be not only achieved but surpassed for the China market alone.”

2nd October 2008/by Tyrepress Editors

Hercules Tire Appoints Gawthrop to Global Supply Chain Role

Dave Gawthrop has been appointed to the position of senior vice president of Global Supply Chain at Hercules Tire & Rubber. In this role Gawthrop will be responsible for the company’s worldwide supply chain operations, including sourcing all Hercules brands, associate brands and other brands from domestic and international suppliers, as well as oversight of all company purchasing and logistics on a functional basis.

1st October 2008/by Tyrepress Editors

Marangoni Group Upgrading its Ellerbrock Facility Following Fire

Marangoni reports that the compound department at the Group’s Ellerbrock GmbH operation near Hamburg, Germany will be rebuilt using advanced technology following the extensive damage incurred during last Easter’s fire. In a press release, the Italian based retreader states that following an initial analysis performed by the management of Ellerbrock and Marangoni Holding, it “became clear that the use of modern equipment and the most recent mixing technology will allow an even better response to the increasing demand for high performance compounds for retreading.”

1st October 2008/by Tyrepress Editors

Michelin to Invest 30 million euros in Poland Production

Michelin Group is reportedly planning to invest roughly 30 million euros in expanding its production adjacent logistics operation in Poland. The expansion, which will take place in the Warmia-Mazury special economic zone, will reportedly see the company occupy a total of 177 hectares of the zone, according to the Polish Information and Foreign Investment Agency (PALiLZ). According to Michelin, a 20 per cent rise in automotive production in Eastern Europe during the first half of 2008 boosted growth in original equipment tyre demand.

24th September 2008/by Tyrepress Editors

Conti Introduces Security Features to Prevent Counterfeiting

In future, ATE branded aftermarket automotive products from Continental will be absolutely identifiable as ATE original replacement parts, the manufacturer promises. To ensure workshops and retailers know that they are using original ATE replacement parts, and passing these on to end customers, the products now feature a two-stage security concept that enables their unique identification. The TecIdentify security code gives products on the open replacement part market a worldwide unique and piece-individual identification number, and the tesa Holospot security technology protects this code from being reproduced or imitated.

17th September 2008/by Tyrepress Editors

Continental Wins MAN Trucknology Supplier Award

Continental Truck Tyres has won the Trucknology Supplier Award presented by MAN. Marking the award the MAN Nutzfahrzeuge citation noted: Continental AG’s “enormous reliability in terms of meeting deadlines and maintaining quality,” adding: “Furthermore, Continental has often been able to intervene at short notice where supply shortages have arisen, and thus played a major role in ensuring that we had tyres for all our vehicles in 2007.”

MAN grants a Trucknology Supplier Award to up to 10 suppliers every year, evaluating reliability, efficiency, innovation, technical competence, quality, cost, and logistics. Vehicle development and tyre design are coordinated from the outset to ensure that new products can roll out on time.

10th September 2008/by Tyrepress Editors

Costin Says Tyre Change Key to Turnaround

West Midlands-based Costin Logistics, formerly AE Costin Haulage, has adopted a pence per kilometre (PPK) tyre contract in conjunction with Michelin and ATS Euromaster, as part of the company’s turnaround strategy. The PPK structured deal – which is traditionally more common with larger 3PLs – sees Costin Logistics’ fleet of commercial vehicles adopt a fully managed tyre policy whereby the company only pay for the kilometres used on tyres, but without the up front cost of outright purchase. This replaces a rudimentary policy of buying the cheapest rubber, managed internally, with the company holding its own tyre stock.

Craig Bunker, who purchased AE Costin in 2007 through his role as a Managing Director of Key3 Partners, a specialist transport turnaround consultancy, says: “The previous tyre policy was a completely false economy demonstrating the common mistake of focusing on price rather than the overall cost, as it often pays to buy quality.”

9th September 2008/by Tyrepress Editors

Michelin Acknowledged For Supply to US Military

Two Michelin North America divisions have been acknowledged by the US military for their tyre quality and delivery service. The Defense Supply Center Columbus (DSCC) awarded Michelin Americas Truck Tires (MATT) and Michelin Aircraft Tire Co. (MATC) Best Value Medal silver awards August 26.

Michelin is one of 89 companies among the DSCC’s 82,000 suppliers to receive the military’s Best Value Medal. The military’s Best Value Medal is awarded to companies that have demonstrated exceptional quality and delivery performance as measured by the Automated Best Value System (ABVS), a computerised system that collects a vendor’s past performance data and translates it into a numeric score ranging from zero to a perfect 100.

1st September 2008/by Tyrepress Editors

Wheel Producer BBS to Relocate Facility

Some time in the next few years – by 2011 at the latest, aluminium wheel producer BBS International will close its factory and headquarters in Schiltach, Germany (the “S” in the name BBS). In its place, corporate owner, Belgium’s Punch International will invest 25 million euros in the second BBS plant, in Herbolzheim, southwest Germany.

1st September 2008/by Tyrepress Editors

Lafarge Appoints New Overall Recovery Logistics Manager

Clive Roberts has become Supply Chain Manager for Lafarge Cement’s resource recovery businesses, Sapphire Energy Recovery and Glacier, the first time such a role has existed across the two businesses. Roberts will be responsible for coordinating and managing movements of materials for both businesses, in an effort to streamline activity and improve customer service. He will be based at the resource recovery businesses’ head office at Cauldon, Staffordshire.

The role will initially focus on making further improvements to collections and deliveries for the tyre recovery business, Sapphire Energy Recovery, which manages collection and processing of tyres disposed of in cement kilns across the UK.

12th August 2008/by Tyrepress Editors

Outsourcing to ContiNetwork Brings Transporter Significant Savings

Purfleet, Essex-based logistics company, FP Young Transport Limited has been experiencing significant savings and greater ease of use following the company’s decision to outsource the management of its fleet’s tyres to ContiNetwork partner TAB Tyres.

Since handing over its tyre administration to TAB, FP Young’s progressive shift to Continental’s rubbers is resulting in longer tyre life, resulting in fewer tyres being fitted and vehicle downtime being reduced. The structured tyre management process based on the five-stage ContiLifeCycle is ensuring that optimum life is obtained from every tyre through specifying the correct tyre from the outset and then re-grooving and re-treading when the time comes.

31st July 2008/by Tyrepress Editors

New Business Development Manager at Vacu-Lug

Vacu-Lug has appointed Matt Ball, 31, to the position of Business Development Manager for Vacu-Lug Traction Tyres Limited. Covering an area from Cheshire through to the Midlands, Wales and the South West, Matt will be responsible for further increasing and developing Vacu-Lug’s penetration within the region’s major fleets.

Ball began his career with a Modern Apprenticeship at alloy wheel and performance tyre manufacturer Rimstock, with whom he later progressed into sales. Thereafter, he spent five years working in light and heavy commercial vehicle sales with Volkswagen and Renault respectively before moving to Ravenstock MSG, a container hire operation, from where he joined Vacu-Lug.

31st July 2008/by Tyrepress Editors

Goodyear Dunlop Names New Market Supply Chain Director

Goodyear Dunlop has promoted Market Planning Manager, Steve Carless, to Market Supply Chain Director – UK and Ireland. Market Supply Chain Director is a new role that has reportedly been created to improve effectiveness, reduce costs and give superior customer satisfaction. The new role’s main responsibilities will include order management, forecasting, warehousing and the Sales and Operating Plan process.

Steve Carless started with the company as an Undergraduate Trainee in Marketing in 1993. After graduating in Mathematical Business Analysis from Wolverhampton University, a year later, he rejoined the company. Carless began his career after graduation as a Market Analyst, moving into Sales for the Truck Tyre department as well as experiencing roles in the company’s Luxembourg offices covering Marketing and Sales Forecasting.

22nd July 2008/by Tyrepress Editors

Vacu-Lug to Make 15 Redundant in Ops Review

Grantham-based retreading firm, Vacu-Lug is set to make 15 employees redundant in an operational review following difficult trading conditions in the commercial tyre sector. The company, which is Europe’s largest retreader of commercial and industrial tyres, is struggling to retain previous levels of demand in some business areas thanks to current market difficulties in haulage and logistics industries.

A spokesman for the company told local news sources that the review was the company’s response to the slowing economy, while the redundancies do not reflect the expanding nature of other sectors of the business. The company was eager to stress the fact that the move comes as “a restructuring exercise, which will help us continue our growth in other areas of the business.”

17th July 2008/by Tyrepress Editors