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SEMA Show 2006: Kumho Launches Road Venture APT

(Las Vegas/Tire Review) The new Road Venture APT KL51, an all-purpose touring tyre designed for light trucks and SUVs, was introduced by Kumho Tire USA during the SEMA Show. Kumho officials said the new tyre features an all-season tread compound formulated to “deliver excellent wet and dry traction and enhanced mileage performance,” as well as “a comfortable ride, decreased road noise and driving stability.” The APT KL51 will be available in the first quarter of 2007 in 25 sizes with black sidewalls, ranging from 225/70R15 to 255/60R18, and in 11 sizes with outlined white letters, ranging from 225/75R15 to 255/65R17.

3rd November 2006/by Tyrepress Editors

New Pirelli P4 Tyre Debuts At SEMA

Pirelli’s new touring line, the P4 Four Seasons, will be on the company’s stand at this year’s SEMA show and the first sizes will be available to dealers from January, 2007. The new line is a “tyre for all seasons” with a silica-rich tread compound and specialised tread design for maximum grip in both wet and snow conditions. Major advances in tread profile, generated from CAD designs, and the very latest tread compounding provide a substantial improvement in wear rate, giving the tyre an extremely long life, says Pirelli.

30th October 2006/by Tyrepress Editors

Ultimate Driving Experience for Millennium Winners

Viking International is pleased to announce the winners of its recent Millennium competition. The Ultra High Performance Millennium tyre range, launched at the beginning of the year, was introduced alongside a competition for trade customers with the chance to win an all expenses paid motorsport day courtesy of Viking International.

21st June 2006/by Tyrepress Editors

CTNA Announces New Flagship Performance Tyre

(Akron/Tire Review) Continental Tire North America (CTNA) announced that its recently launched ContiProContact will serve as the new flagship luxury performance tyre for the Continental brand. The ContiProContact tyre replaces its predecessor, the ContiTouringContact CH95. “The ContiProContact outperformed the ContiTouringContact CH95 in virtually every category, including straight and lateral hydroplaning, as well as ABS braking performance in both wet and dry conditions,” said CTNA in a statement.

22nd February 2006/by Tyrepress Editors

New ConRad Tyre Strengthens Continental Radial Range

Continental Tyres has introduced the new ConRad tyre, a powerful addition to its radial industrial range. The manufacturer describes the ConRad is “ideally suited for heavy transport or lift trucks carrying loads up to 10 tonnes in weight, operating on smooth, paved and mixed terrain.”

10th February 2006/by Tyrepress Editors

Flexible New Zafira Fits Bridgestone Tyres

Vauxhall has launched a new version of its user-friendly Zafira, which fits Bridgestone tyres as original equipment. Featuring the versatile Flex7 seating design that first appeared on the original car in 1999, a wide range of engines, and a choice of Bridgestone’s Potenza or Turanza tyres, the new Zafira is expected to become a popular choice for UK drivers.

18th January 2006/by Tyrepress Editors

Toyo Adds 24-inch Sizes to Proxes 4 Line

(Akron/Tire Review) Toyo Tire (USA) Corp. is introducing two 24-inch sizes of its Proxes 4 ultra-high performance tyre. The new sizes – 255/30R24 and 275/30R24 – are made with Toyo’s “Generation S” silica-reinforced tread compound and the tyremaker’s T-Mode design technology and are “ideal for even or stagger fitments,” Toyo said.

The Proxes 4 tyre features a unidirectional “w-shaped” tread design, curved centre rib for water evacuation and a five-variable pitch tread design for reduced noise, said Toyo.

9th November 2005/by Tyrepress Editors

Attention to Detail

If you talk to engineers at Goodyear Test Centre: Luxembourg (GTC*L), they will probably tell you just how radically “tyre testing has changed over the last 20 years” and how pleased they are to have been at the forefront of these developments. During a recent visit to the company’s Luxembourg operation, officials showed Tyres & Accessories just how far Goodyear is willing to go to develop and improve the comfort and safety of its products.

Nestled amongst the Goodyear Luxembourg complex which includes, tyre production, mould making an truck tyre mounting facilities, the GTC*L is made up of three main buildings; GTC*L itself the Tyre and Vehicle Testing Laboratory and Laboratory B. A day touring the Tyre and Vehicle testing laboratory alone is quite an education. In addition the people at the Goodyear’s neighbouring test track have a fleet of trucks, buses and cars that are perpetually testing tyres, clocking up 10 million kilometres a year. The quantity of data that the centre’s 44 PhDs wade through is immense, but here is just one example of the GTC*L’s daily activities.

21st October 2005/by Tyrepress Editors

Subaru Impreza to Ride on Bridgestone Potenza RE92 Tyres

(Akron/Tire Review) Bridgestone/Firestone North American Tire (BFNAT) announced that the 2006 Subaru Impreza will be fitted with Bridgestone Potenza RE92 tyres. Impreza WRX sedan and wagon models will sport the Potenza RE92 tyres in size 215/45ZR17. ”Interlocking triangulated blocks and circumferential grooves in the tread design” enhance wet, dry and snow traction, according to BFNAT. “The computer-enhanced tread design also minimizes road noise, and the tyre’s polyester cord body promotes ride comfort,” the manufacturer added.

20th October 2005/by Tyrepress Editors

Tyre Mechanics Short Course

The 30th Annual Tire Mechanics Short Course is to be held concurrently with the Tire Technology Expo and Conference in Stuttgart, from 6 –9 March 2006. According to the organisers, this four-day educational and developmental course will provide engineers and scientists with an in-depth, intense study of developments surrounding tyre engineering.

28th September 2005/by Tyrepress Editors

Nokian Introduces Studdable Tread

Nokian Tyres will expand its popular Noktop 41 product family with a new studdable retreading tread, designed to offer superior grip in icy winter conditions. Studding can improve tyre grip on slippery ice by more than 20% compared to unstudded treads, says Nokian.

Intended for buses and timber, container and goods transportation, Nokian Noktop 41 Stud is a safe and environmentally friendly product. It is manufactured from HA oil-free rubber compounds developed for Nordic conditions.

20th September 2005/by Tyrepress Editors

Yokohama Announces New Design Technologies

(Akron/Tire Review) Yokohama Rubber Co. announced that it has developed new, third-generation tyre design technologies. The manufacturer’s “multiscale simulation” and “multi-performance map” display information for optimal design proposals, it said.

Multiscale simulation allows for predictions of physical properties based on combinations of compounds and frictional coefficients, Yokohama said. “As a result, we can make more realistic performance predictions for vehicles based on more accurate wear forecasts of front and rear tires and other factors,” said the tyremaker.

1st August 2005/by Tyrepress Editors

Keeping the noise down

A new research project into tyre noise on roads could lead to recommendations for improving the security and noise performance of Europe’s roads. The project, which is being carried out by Dr. Roger Pinnington and his team at the University of Southampton’s Institute of Sound and Vibration (ISVR) and the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, aims to develop a model tyre that the researchers can use to gauge whether it is the tyre or the road surface that is producing the noise. The tyre model being developed will allow the researchers to determine whether the problem of traffic noise is the responsibility of the tyre manufacturers or the road constructors.

9th January 2004/by Tyrepress Editors

Falken scores well in tests

Falken tyres came top in a series of tests conducted by US magazine Consumer Reports. The Falken Ziek ZE 512 scored best among a number of US, European and Japanese brands, with the tests including wet and dry braking, handling, rolling resistance, aquaplaning, ride comfort and noise.

18th December 2003/by Tyrepress Editors

Kumho Winter Tyre Wins Ecolabel Award

Kumho has become the first tyre manufacturer to be awarded the “Green Swan” Ecolabel for a new product. Both the company’s KWN7401 I’Zen tyre and the manufacturing process passed stringent tests set by the Nordic Ecolabelling Board. These had to demonstrate that the tyre was made with the lowest possible impact on the environment and that it operated in an environmentally friendly way during its lifetime, with low noise levels, low rolling resistance and the ability to be reused after its first life.

7th December 2002/by Tyrepress Editors