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L-Ray goes smaller for third DVS-1220 tyre analyser

Michigan-based business L-Ray has been manufacturing non-destructive tyre testing equipment for almost 40 years – previously under the names IHI (International Holographics, Inc) and Grant Engineering. While a small business, it operates on the global stage in manufacturing and retreading segments – in total, the company says it provides over 250 machines in more than 24 countries – first producing holography machines and then shearography machines. In 2007 L-Ray introduced its new Differometric Technology, which president Lee Petrimoulx says is “much faster and provides high quality digital images for checking tyres or retread casings”.

4th July 2011/by Tyrepress Editors

Mixer manufacturer Carter International discusses expansion plans

Since being relaunched in its present trading format eight years ago, Rochdale-based Carter international says it has evolved into a “leading manufacturers of mixing room machinery” and other tyre manufacturing products; the upwards curve in the company’s development has led to the organisation’s current plan to relocate to a greenfield site. Carter says its “ongoing success in a highly competitive market” has encouraged the company to improve its manufacturing and operational facilities for greater “professionalism and efficiency”.

4th July 2011/by Tyrepress Editors

Lanxess lifts synthetic rubber prices

As of July 1 the per tonne price for Lanxess’s Perbunan and Krynac synthetic rubber ranges and its Baymod and Nanoprene products increased by 150 euros. The given reason for this price adjustment is a rise in manufacturing costs.

4th July 2011/by Tyrepress Editors

Toyo sued in 2006 fatal crash claims

Toyo is currently in the High Court answering a claim for damages by siblings Dharmendra Joshi and Joshi Divya, who were passengers in a car whose tyre blew out on the M4 in Wales on 25 June, 2006. One of their fellow passengers, 26 year-old Neha Bhatt, was killed in the accident after being thrown from the Mitsubishi Pajero jeep, which reports say “flipped at least ten times”. Mr Justice Mackay established that the “tyre tread separated from the rest of the tyre along about half of its circumference, resulting in the loss of control and causing this terrible accident”. The point of contention is whether the tyre was defective, as the six survivors of the crash claim, or whether there was an impact “that triggered some progressive rapid stripping of the tread”, as Toyo contends. The hearing is set to run well into next week.

1st July 2011/by Tyrepress Editors

Vee Rubber producing more than 25 million tyres

Vee Rubber has had a long period of sustained growth in the last two decades, and is now the employer of over 4,000 at its three large manufacturing facilities on the outskirts of Bangkok. Their combined production now exceeds 25 million tyres per annum, about half of which is now exported through branch offices throughout Asia, Western Europe, USA, Canada and Latin America.

1st July 2011/by Tyrepress Editors

Kaluga chosen as site for Conti’s Russia plant

Detailed information of Continental’s planned new factory in Russia has been released, and this shows that instead of selecting a site in the Ivanovo region as speculated, the new plant will be located in Kaluga, some 170 kilometres southwest of Moscow. In a press statement released July 1, Nikolai Setzer, head of the company’s Passenger and Light Truck Tires division and Continental AG Executive Board member, shared that the Kaluga plant will focus on meeting Continental’s strategic goal of achieving above-average and profitable growth, particularly in emerging markets.

1st July 2011/by Tyrepress Editors

Bridgestone increasing domestic market TBR prices

Prices for new Bridgestone truck and bus tyres in the Japanese market are to rise by an average of 10 per cent as of September 1, while retreaded truck and bus tyre prices will simultaneously increase by five per cent. The increase applies to both summer and winter tyres.

1st July 2011/by Tyrepress Editors

Zafco aiming for US$1 billion by 2012

International News, News

Following a successful Tyrexpo Asia earlier this year, Zafco, the Dubai based tyre distributor of tyres, batteries and lubricants, opted for a second high profile exhibition stand at Automechanika Middle East. Tyres & Accessories was on-hand in Dubai to find out more.

30th June 2011/by Tyrepress Editors

Fears India certification may lead to tyre shortages, unsold stock

Shortages make become an issue within India’s tyre industry following the release of a quality control order by the country’s Department of Commerce. Reporting on the threat, the Business Standard newspaper explains that the order prevents the sale of tyres and tubes in India unless they feature a Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) mark or a certification mark licence is otherwise obtained. The business daily also states industry sources claim the country’s tyre manufacturing industry “has come to a standstill” as it possesses a substantial inventory that cannot be sold without the BIS mark.

29th June 2011/by Tyrepress Editors

Boto Tyre gives update on factory progress

Following the news in April 2009 that Shandong Wanda Boto Tyre Co., Ltd., was to build a passenger car production facility nearby its existing tyre manufacturing complex in China, company representatives have given a update of the construction process. Speaking to Tyres & Accessories back then, company representatives explained how, despite the ongoing economic downturn, Boto Tyre was planning to build a 15 million passenger car radial a year plant. Around 1 billion yuan was said to have been earmarked for the expansion work.

27th June 2011/by Tyrepress Editors

Pakistan sales champion Panther aiming to improve exports

International News

Under the leadership of Mian Iftikhar Ahmed, the dedicated team Mian Tyre & Rubber Company Limited (MTRCL), which sells the Panther brand of tyres, has won the Pakistan export trophy for the last eight consecutive years. Now, the flagship business of Iftikhar Group of Companies, a leading tyre and tube manufacturing group in Pakistan is aiming to increase exports still further. According to the company, the Panther trade name has developed a reputation of “excellence in domestic and export marketplace.” The firm supplies tyres and tubes for tractors, threshers, fork lifts, jeeps, motorcycles, scooters, rickshaws, cycles and trolleys.

23rd June 2011/by Tyrepress Editors

Is EDIWheel the answer to the tyre labelling question?

While the products sold in the tyre industry are undoubtedly high-tech, those working in the business are amongst the first to admit they are anything but computer technicians. So when people start talking about computational protocols such as EDIWheel, and waxing lyrical about how this evolution of the commonly know EDI standard, people’s eyes tend to glaze over. However with many of us still wondering how the tyre retail and distribution sectors are going to handle the administrative nightmare that 2012’s labelling law could bring with it, Tyres & Accessories asks if the EDIWheel standard can help solve the problem.

22nd June 2011/by Tyrepress Editors

Bridgestone marks 50 years of Béthune production

More than 2,300 visitors recently attended an open day at Bridgestone’s factory in Béthune, France, to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the plant’s opening. The event on June 11 included guided tours of the factory, an exhibition on the plant’s history and an official ceremony overseen by Bruno Capron, managing director, Bridgestone France Manufacturing. Also representing Bridgestone at the half-century commemoration were Ryutaro Ishii, senior vice-president Manufacturing and Yoshihiko Fujimoto, vice-president HR Europe & Corporate Affairs.

22nd June 2011/by Tyrepress Editors

Aromatic oils eliminated from Aeolus TBR production

China’s Aeolus Tyre reports the phasing out of aromatic oil in the production of its truck and bus radial tyres. The Henan province-based manufacturer says that as of May 2011 it has ceased using the rubber accelerator NOBS, curing agent DTDM and antioxidants in the manufacture of TBR tyres intended for the domestic market; tyres intended for export markets have been produced using environmentally-friendly oils for more than two years now. In announcing its total changeover to low-PAH (polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon) substances, Aeolus Tyre states it the first 100 per cent environmentally-friendly TBR tyre manufacturer in China.

20th June 2011/by Tyrepress Editors

Avon celebrates 2011 Isle of Man TT sidecar victory

The Avon-shod Honda-powered LCR of Klaus Klaffenbock and Dan Sayle won the first of the two sidecar events at the 2011 Isle of Man TT races, while only technical issues prevented them from capitalising on a 17-second lead on the final lap in the second. Despite the disappointment of race two, the first Sure Sidecar A race win – which they led from start to finish – meant three TT wins in a row for Klaffenbock and the seventh career win for his Manx-born partner Sayle. Avon-shod machines took eight of the top ten positions in both sidecar races.

15th June 2011/by Tyrepress Editors