Tyre industry pioneers, Michelin has a long history. Having begun in 1889, Michelin is now the second-largest tyre manufacturer in the world after Bridgestone and larger than both Goodyear and Contineantal.
Michelin is parting ways with the ABB FIA Formula E World Championship following the 2021/22 season finale. With Hankook limbering up and ready to take over next year, the French tyre maker has looked back on its eight years with the championship, convinced that its work has “made a concrete contribution to the success enjoyed by Formula E today.”
Tructyre founder Glenn Sherwood is the new Chief Growth Officer at Vaculug. In this role, he will be responsible for the firm’s new growth initiatives both on the fleet side as well as the technology and product side of the business.
AMP Clean Energy is a distributed energy company which develops, funds and runs low carbon heat and power solutions including biomass heat installations and flexible energy plants. The company has announced that it is switching its commercial vehicle fleet to a full Michelin tyre policy, to reduce downtime and boost the sustainability of its operation.
In a market hit by the systemic impacts of the conflict in Ukraine and the health crisis, the Michelin Group reports that its net income fell by 18.3 per cent despite a year-on-year increase in sales. The tyre maker nevertheless considers this a good result “in an extremely unsettled environment.”
The York-based crop farming operation Wharram and Kay is getting ‘fantastic results’ from its new Bateman RB35 self-propelled crop sprayer having fitted the vehicle with Michelin AxioBib 2 tyres. The company days it has seen vastly improved stability and can run the sprayer on very wet ground thanks to the superb soil protection qualities of the VF 650/60 R38 fitments.
Jason Anzalone is Michelin North America’s new director of motorsports. From 1 August, he succeeds Tony Ménard, who will return to Michelin headquarters in France after three years in North America.
Michelin reports collecting half a dozen accolades at the inaugural Customer Choice Awards held by DriverReviews, the division of online retail subsidiary Blackcircles.com set up to “provide an independent, fully verified and trusted voice.” The brand is outright winner in four of the nine awards categories and highly recommended or commended in a further two.
Michelin has purchased road infrastructure computer vision specialist RoadBotics and intends to combine the US-based firm’s expertise with its own know-how to provide a Michelin DDi service aimed at road managers. It will initially offer this service in North America before beginning a rollout in Europe.
WhiteCycle, a project coordinated by Michelin, officially got underway on 1 July with the aim of developing a circular economy for converting complex waste containing plastic textiles into high-added-value products. Co-financed by the European Commission’s Horizon Europe programme, this public/private European partnership includes 17 organisations.
Michelin has appointed Lee Hutchings as Director of Services and Solutions for the UK and Ireland. In this capacity he oversees a division that looks after some of Michelin’s biggest customers and manages the tyres on more than 80,000 commercial vehicles. Hutchings will also play a key role in the growth of the company’s “with and around tyres” concept by linking in with Michelin Connected Fleet, the recently launched Fleet management brand in the UK.
Michelin has marked the renewal of its support for the UNRSF (United Nations Road Safety Fund) with a donation of one million euros to facilitate road safety improvements in lower- and middle-income countries. It will donate this over the coming two years via the Michelin Corporate Foundation.
Analytics firm Clarivate has published its 100 Top Innovators 2022 list, and several familiar names are present. Continental debuts as a new entrant, whilst Bridgestone and Michelin both return to the list for a fourth time. Michelin shares that it received this recognition from Clarivate during yesterday’s R&D forum at its technology centre near Clermont-Ferrand, France.
Family-run haulier FG Bond & Son has specified Michelin X Line Energy tyres as original equipment on its new Volvo FH 500, having been hugely impressed with the fuel savings the same tyres have delivered in the past. The Wiltshire-based business is taking advantage of the sustainability benefits of Michelin’s most fuel-efficient truck tyres, after it found the fitments to unlock a one mpg advantage in fuel efficiency compared to a competitor brand it had been running on the front axle of another truck.
A memorandum of understanding (MoU) between Michelin and Hyundai Motor Group will facilitate the development of a new generation of tyres optimised for electric vehicles (EVs). The three-year agreement, a follow-up to the partnership of November 2017 that resulted in an exclusive Michelin tyre for the Hyundai Ioniq 5, covers joint work on tyres containing an increased level of eco-friendly materials, tyres optimised for next-generation EVs as well as a real-time tyre monitoring system for autonomous vehicles.
After suspending its manufacturing activities in Russia on 15 March, Michelin now confirms that it is “technically impossible to resume production,” due in particular to supply issues, amid a context of general uncertainty. It says Michelin Group is “therefore compelled” to plan the transfer of all of its Russian operations by the end of 2022.
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