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Michelin North America begins 2011 Green X Challenge

The third running of the Michelin Green X Challenge gets underway in North America on March 19, and the tyre maker says the season opener at the Sebring circuit in Florida will offer “a glimpse into the future of technology and innovation that become more relevant every day.” The US based Green X Challenge recognises the Prototype and GT category cars that prove “cleanest, fastest, most efficient” in the “race within the race” at every American Le Mans Series event. Similar competitions are now also part of every Asian and European Le Mans Series event, the 24 Hours of Le Mans and the new Intercontinental Le Mans Cup.

16th March 2011/by Tyrepress Editors

Michelin launches Power Cup 2011

Michelin has announced a provisional schedule for the 2011 Michelin Power Cup race series, whose entry list has grown to almost 60 riders following its first UK season last year. The series offers motorcycle racers “unprecedented amounts of track time and prizes, including tyres and sponsors’ products,” says Michelin, with TV coverage courtesy of Motors TV. The season consists of eight rounds with three 12-15 lap sprint races for 600cc and 1000cc classes at each round. The season will run from March to October with provisional stages at Brands Hatch (12-13 March), Mallory Park (16-17 April), Anglesey (28-29 May), Snetterton (18-19 June and 29-30 October), Pembrey (16-17 July), Cadwell Park (20-21 August) and Oulton Park (17 September).

3rd March 2011/by Tyrepress Editors

Orange Oil a Key Theme at TIA Green Symposium

Orange may well be the new green, at least when it comes to reducing dependency on petroleum resources. This is the message Yokohama Tire Corporation’s director of technical services Dan Guiney is bringing with him to the Tire Industry Association Environmental Symposium, scheduled to be held between September 30 and October 2 in the US state of Maryland. Guiney will discuss the technology involved in Yokohama’s utilisation of orange oil to create a passenger car tyre that is 80 per cent petroleum free.

“Yokohama is a leader in showing how to break free from conventional thinking in order to develop products that are environmentally friendly and cost-efficient. TIA is proud to be able to provide our Environmental Symposium attendees with such a world-class opportunity,” said TIA executive vice president Roy Littlefield.

27th August 2010/by Tyrepress Editors

Chicago Pneumatic Offers New 2 Year Guarantee

Chicago Pneumatic (CP) has introduced a new two year guarantee on what it says are some of the market’s favourite tools. The move doubles the warranty period on the company’s original “Classic” range of tools. This new Classic range is a collection of all the well known vehicle service tools in the CP range that customers regard as essential to their business and forms the initial part of the company’s complete redesign of its entire product portfolio in due course.

Included in this Classic collection are tools such as the CP734H half inch impact wrench which features Dyna-Pact oil bath clutch and one-handed push button forward/reverse with four positive power settings to deliver a smooth operation and extreme durability.

17th August 2010/by Tyrepress Editors

European Developed Winter Line Added to Cooper Portfolio

Cooper Tire has introduced two new ranges of high performance tyres intended for winter conditions, the WM-SA2 and WM-ST3. The manufacturer reports these newest members of Cooper’s high-performance line-up benefit from the latest state-of-the-art production technology and have been designed to offer firm footing on snow and slush.

20th July 2010/by Tyrepress Editors

£2m Investment For Tyre Recycler

The Tees Valley Industrial Programme (TVIP) is a £60 million investment fund that was established to accelerate job opportunities and business development in the Tees Valley region of the UK. A grant of £2 million from TVIP has been earmarked for PYReco; a new company based in Wilton. The grant will help fund the development of a new processing plant to recover carbon black, oil and steel from waste tyres and rubber. It is expected that the finished project will employ 52 staff, plus 240 new construction jobs will be created over the next five years.

21st June 2010/by Tyrepress Editors

Tyres a Potential Solution to Gulf of Mexico Oil Leak

Tyres may be conscripted into the effort to contain the oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico. BP chief operating officer Doug Suttles indicates that scrap tyres and golf balls could be inserted into the oil well’s faulty blowout preventer to stop the flow of some 5,000 barrels of oil into the water each day. "We have some pipe work on the blowout preventer, and if we can open certain valves on that we could inject basically just rubber and other type of material into [it] to plug it up, not much different to the way you might plug up a toilet," he said.

11th May 2010/by Tyrepress Editors

Apollo Tyres to Raise Prices in June

Apollo Tyres has confirmed it will increase tyre prices again by 4 per cent in June after already hiking prices by 3.5 per cent on 1 May, reports Tire Review. The company cited increases in natural rubber and crude oil costs as the reason for the successive price hikes. Citing similar input cost pressures, Apollo had increased prices 2 per cent to 4 per cent in April and 3-5 per cent in January.

5th May 2010/by Tyrepress Editors

Bridgestone Presents New Off-Road Sizes at Bauma

Despite the absence of some international visitors due to European flight restrictions, the Bauma 2010 show in Munich, Germany got underway on April 19. The specialist off-road and mining equipment exhibition has attracted a number of exhibitors from the tyre sector, including Bridgestone Europe, who has introduced a number of new sizes to its off-road ranges at Bauma.

20th April 2010/by Tyrepress Editors

Conti Industrial Tyres Face Ultimate Load Test

Suitability for high load applications is a favoured quality for industrial tyres, and Continental Industrial Tyres is now in a strong position to brag about the load capability of its IC 40 Extra Deep pneumatic crossply range. The Conti tyre plus corresponding Continental-supplied wheel units were called into service to aid Kamag and Scheuerle Self-Propelled Modular Transporters (SPMTs) move a load weighing more than 15,000 tonnes. This impressive piece of haulage work took place at Norway’s largest shipyard, Aker Stord, and involved the transportation of an oil separation plant. The plant was built in three sections, the middle of these sections alone weighing 12,750 tonnes, and its movement from the production site to a pontoon required an accuracy level of just two millimetres.

18th March 2010/by Tyrepress Editors

RockTron Releases Recycled Filler Research Results

Eco-mineral recycling technology firm RockTron revealed new research results at the recent Tire Technology EXPO in Cologne highlighting the possibility of reducing costs through the use of an eco-friendly, recycled filler. The company believes the results of this research, carried out by ARTIS on RockTron’s Advanced Products, will assist the tyre industry through showing that its 100 per cent recycled fillers can reduce CO2 emissions, cut costs and improve tyre performance – factors that will manufacturers’ margins and protect their bottom line.

19th February 2010/by Tyrepress Editors

Simple Oil Change Turns into Wreck Nightmare

According to The Day newspaper in New London, Connecticut, a local woman’s car was seriously damaged by the tyre shop she took it to for a simple oil change. In the 22 January incident, the woman took her 1994 Buick Century to the local Bridgestone Americas-owned Expert Tire location for an oil change. A short time later, the shop called to tell her that her car would not be done that day, and that she would receive a loaner car to use until her Buick was finished. The woman went back to the Expert Tire location to get a few things from her car, the report said, and discovered the driver’s side door was crushed in.

5th February 2010/by Tyrepress Editors

ISO Certification for Gomme Piave

Italian OTR retreading specialist Gomme Piave reports having been granted ISO 9001:2008 certificated through TÜV Austria. The company also states that from now on it can supply all tyres in its entire retread range with a treatment that protects the casing structure from the effects of hazardous substances, thereby making them particularly suitable for use in industrial waste disposal duties that pose a risk of oil contamination.

13th January 2010/by Tyrepress Editors

Cooper Creates New ERP Position

Cooper Tire’s new ERP, or Enterprise Planning Resource, system is intended to standardise, automate and integrate the company’s data and processes into one system and provide access to information in a real-time environment. To assist in the successful roll out of this system, Cooper has appointed Ron Ranallo to the newly created position of vice president, ERP implementation. In this new role, Ranallo will supervise numerous business process owners who are tasked with designing and configuring the enterprise resource planning business processes and enabling software.

6th January 2010/by Tyrepress Editors

China Seizes 8,500 Tonnes of US Waste Tyres

The US recently imposed tariffs aimed at preventing Chinese manufacturers from dumping cheap tyres in the market, and now China faces its own dumping problems of a different nature – customs officials there report seizing more than 8,500 tonnes of smuggled waste tyres sent from the US. According to the General Administration of Customs, some 366 shipping containers filled with tyres arrived in the coastal city of Guangzhou via Hong Kong between December 2008 and February 2009, where they remained until their discovery in December 2009. Three suspected smugglers were subsequently arrested.

4th January 2010/by Tyrepress Editors