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Juma Al Majid Group Celebrates 50 Years with Yokohama

The Dubai based Juma Al Majid Group has celebrated 50 years of business with Yokohama tyre. The group, dealers for the Japanese brand in the United Arab Emirates, marked this milestone on November 27.

“There are different kinds of companies,” commented Juma Al Majid, founder and chairman of the group. “One type looks for its own benefit, but when there is a company that looks out for both sides, it can maintain the relationship for 50 years and more.”

28th November 2008/by Tyrepress Editors

Bridgestone Announces Senior Management Changes

On November 28 Bridgestone Corporation announced that its board of directors has approved a number of proposed changes in corporate officers. Mikio, Masunaga, currently vice president and senior officer responsible for procurement and internal manufacturing management in the Internal Manufacturing Management section and concurrently assistant to the vice president and officer, Motorsport is now focusing on the first of these duties exclusively.

28th November 2008/by Tyrepress Editors

Comings and Goings

On May 24, 2008 tyre industry steel cord producer Bekaert and China’s Anshan Iron and Steel Group Corporation (Ansteel), one of the world’s leading steel producers, signed a memorandum of understanding outlining the terms of a close future partnership between the two companies. As part of the arrangement both firms agreed to explore strategic cooperation projects in order to better address the growing demand for advanced wire products on the Chinese market.

27th November 2008/by Tyrepress Editors

Bekaert to Build Second Steel Cord Factory in Slovakia

Bekaert is said to be gearing up to build a second steel cord manufacturing facility in Slovakia. The plant will most likely be located in the vicinity of the existing facility, in the industrial zone outside Sladkovicovo, in the country’s southwest. According to reports, the 15 million euro project will get underway in 2009.

27th November 2008/by Tyrepress Editors

Rosava Buys Vipo Bead Winder

CJSC Rosava has reportedly acquired new machinery for “mid-range” passenger car tyre production from Slovakian machinery maker Vipo. According to a statement on the deal, the company’s long-term investment project includes manufacturing “medium-class passenger and light truck tyres with 14 to 18-inch rim diameters.” Vipo has supplied a “libepal” bead winding line. Rosava reportedly spent 755,500 euros (US$951,930 dollars) on the technology.

26th November 2008/by Tyrepress Editors

Community Shows Support for Employees After Carlisle Tire Blaze

Following a blaze that took several days to extinguish, the 250,000 square foot Carlisle Tire manufacturing facility in Bowdon, Georgia lies in ruins, and it appears likely the remaining company buildings at the site will also require demolition. While nobody was injured in the blaze, around 350 employees now face an uncertain future. According to local media, however, the townspeople of Bowdon are rallying to support those affected.

25th November 2008/by Tyrepress Editors

Michelin Temporarily Closing Romanian Factories

Michelin has notified Romanian media that it will temporarily close its factories in that country until further notice in response to a greatly reduced demand for tyres. In a press release sent to national press agency Agerpres, Michelin management said that the demand for tyres in the European Union has decreased, forcing the company to “adjust production.”

25th November 2008/by Tyrepress Editors

Schaeffler/Conti Saga – ‘Over By Christmas’?

Company News, Editorial/Comment

The announcement had a phenomenal response at the stock market where, following publication of Schaeffler’s statement on EU approval, tendered shares in Continental grew by as much as 50 per cent before levelling off at around 36 per cent up, in response. Why? Because up to this point investors had become decidedly nervous about Schaeffler’s ability to complete the deal and the EU announcement was seen as a sign that the deal as a whole is on track. Due to the well-documented contraction in credit markets bankers had been scratching their heads about where the necessary financing would come from and whether the supporting banks would be able to come up with cash.

25th November 2008/by Tyrepress Editors

Ruia Group Acquires Inner Tube Manufacturer

India’s Ruia group has acquired two-wheeler inner tube manufacturing company JJ Polymers for an undisclosed sum, and Ruia is setting about raising capacity at the company’s Mysore facility in eastern India. “Its capacity is being raised to 900,000 per month,” said group chairman Pawan Kumar Ruia; previously the JJ Polymers plant had a monthly capacity of 375,000 units.

24th November 2008/by Tyrepress Editors

Roesler Group Turns 360 on Tyre Management

The Roesler Group has announced that it is to support its core retreading business with a product branded “Roesler 360”. The new offering comprises what the company terms a “fully integrated ‘Total Tyre Management System’” for buyers, maintenance workshops, operators and users of EM and OTR tyres. Roesler says that it will offer customers “a complete tyre quality management, performance enhancing and tracking facility that ranges from first fitment, right through to the end of tyre life disposal and recycling.”

Roesler 360 incorporates the combined expertise, technical innovation, manufacturing and site servicing capabilities of the Roesler Group, its comprehensive range of tyre types and sizes and its diversity of applications. It will provide a highly flexible, customer focused and traceable system, which manages, analyses and reports a tyre’s total life cycle. It also features data on the tyre’s selection, fitment, use, performance, servicing, retreading and ultimate disposal, allowing the tyre to be fully optimised in terms of continuously improving its running costs, hours, safety, reliability and carbon footprint.

21st November 2008/by Tyrepress Editors

Asian SBR Prices to Fall Further, Predict Manufacturers

Asian based tyre manufacturers and producers of styrene butadiene rubber (SBR) believe regional prices for the commodity can fall even further beyond the 40 per cent experienced in November. While spot prices to China for non-oil grade 1502 dropped to around US$1,500 to $1,600 a tonne in mid November, market sources speculate the going price could reach as low as $1,100 to $1,200 a tonne by the year’s end.

20th November 2008/by Tyrepress Editors

China Pledges Thai Rubber Imports Won’t Decrease in 2009

Global number one natural rubber consumer China has pledged it will import as much natural rubber from Thailand next year as it has in 2008, despite feeling the impact of the global economic slowdown. Thailand deputy minister of Agriculture and Cooperatives Teerachai Saenkaew stated this on November 18, elaborating that he has discussed natural rubber cooperation during his recent meeting with China’s vice agricultural minister Niu Dun.

20th November 2008/by Tyrepress Editors

Bridgestone Europe Outlines Green Performance in New Brochure

It’s as fresh as the morning dew upon a rainforest fern frond – Bridgestone Europe has published its updated environmental report, which sets out the company’s commitment to high environmental standards and the latest steps it is taking to achieve them. In keeping with its theme, the colour brochure is printed with vegetable-based inks on FSC label recycled paper, and is aimed at all organisations and groups interested in the company, including shareholders, government authorities, journalists, car manufacturers and other business partners.

19th November 2008/by Tyrepress Editors

Tenneco to Add 300 SKUs to Walker Range in 2009

Emission control systems manufacturer Tenneco says it will continue its ‘aggressive investment’ in new emissions control application coverage in 2009. The company plans to add more than 300 SKUs to its Walker line of replacement exhaust parts in the coming year. This planned expansion continues a strategy begun more than five years ago, when Tenneco began to significantly increase the Walker brand’s coverage in support of aftermarket businesses. More than 600 new exhaust part numbers were introduced to the Walker line in 2008 alone, and more than 1,600 parts have been added since 2004.

19th November 2008/by Tyrepress Editors

Talk of Redundancies at Mount Vernon Mere Rumours, Says CTNA

Circulating talk of imminent redundancies at Continental Tire North America’s Mount Vernon factory are just rumours, a company official reported on November 18. While the company has reduced its temporary workforce by approximately 50 employees, the facilities 2000+ permanent employees have not been affected.

“We have been adjusting our production levels and controlling inventories to bring them in line with where the current market demands are,” Hank Eisenga, vice president for manufacturing at the plant told Illinois newspaper The Southern. “Rumours of major layoffs have been circulating, and that’s not the case. We are reducing some of our temporary workforce but we do not anticipate anything in the nature of layoffs to our permanent workforce.”

19th November 2008/by Tyrepress Editors