Two years ago Just Easy Tools – a Danish manufacturer and inventor of tyre manipulators and wheel service Equipment – introduced a special three-point gripping mechanism for safe and effective tyre handling during Reifen 2014. The company returns for the 2016 show and gave Tyres & Accessories this interview with Just Easy Tools CEO, Lars Jorgensen.
On 3 March Magna Tyres announced that Kevin Burke, managing director of KBT Tyres in Athenry, Ireland signed a partnership agreement for the distribution of Magna Tyres and MTP Tyres in Ireland.
Magna Tyres Group has appointed Christophe Cantou as sales manager for the region South France. Cantou has over 15 years of sales experience in the tyre industry and has worked for various well-known tyre companies. He will be working alongside Peter Schreudering and focus on the southern part of the country.
BKT considers the Bauma 2016 exhibition in Munich the “perfect occasion” to display its new latest tyres for the logistics sector. One of these products is the brand new Portmax PM93, an all-steel radial that is built using multi-layer steel belts; these belts, reports BKT, give the Portmax PM93 “strength and force even in the most demanding situations.” The new tyre is specifically designed for container handling in port applications, and BKT list excellent stability, durability and fuel economy as three main characteristics.
The brand new Earthmax SR 31, which BKT says has “just rolled off the production line,” will be put on display for the first time at this year’s Bauma show in Munich, Germany. The all-steel radial features multi-ply steel belts, and BKT says this gives the tyre “extraordinary strength and stability under [the] toughest operating conditions.” Other qualities the manufacturer attributes to the Earthmax SR 31 are excellent traction and manoeuvrability, along with good ride comfort.
Indian tyre maker Ceat Ltd reports it has given its wholly-owned Ceat Specialty Tyres Ltd (CTSL) subsidiary land in Ambarnath, near the city of Mumbai, for the purpose of erecting a new greenfield radial OTR tyre factory on the site, and has further aided the project through an Rs 250 million (£2.6 million) equity investment in CTSL in the October to December 2015 quarter. Altogether, CTSL will invest Rs 3.3 billion (£33.8 million) to build a plant with an initial daily capacity of 40 tonnes.
In response to market demand, Gripen Wheels UK has brought two new products into its Dynamaxx off-road tyre range. These additions are the Dynamaxx HSS Road and Dynamaxx All Traction E4.
BKT has announced that it is investing in attending the triennial Bauma OTR equipment show in Munich from 11-17 April 2016. BKT reports it will welcome visitors by means of a “strong and appealing advertising presence conveying BKT’s vision”. As in the last edition of Bauma in 2013, BKT will exclusively customize all rickshaws that are at the trade show visitors’ disposal for moving around in the large open-air exhibition area. And it will be difficult to miss BKT’s new giant tyre, Earthmax SR 45 Plus, with its height of 2.70 metres.
Bridgestone Americas shares that it has been designated a Partner-level supplier for 2015 in the John Deere & Company Achieving Excellence Program. Partner-level status is Deere & Company’s highest supplier rating, and Bridgestone states for this selection recognises its dedication to providing products and service of outstanding quality, as well as its commitment to continuous improvement. Bridgestone says its employees accepted the recognition at a ceremony held in the USA recently.
Kings Road Tyres (KRT), one of the longest-established UK tyre wholesalers, is restructuring its distribution network and has committed to a multi-million pound investment and modernisation programme to achieve this.
However, this also means the eight existing KRT warehouses in the UK and Ireland will be progressively closed to coincide with the opening of new premises. This is expected to take place between the end of March and the end of August 2016.
ATG (Alliance Tire Group), which produces OTR tyres under the Alliance brand, has announced plans to present “numerous tyre innovations at the 2016 FIMA in Saragossa. The new Agristar XL Super Volume Series, specifically developed for high horse power tractors, combines, harvesters, big wagons, spreaders and sprayers, is just one.
Titan International has filed petitions with the US International Trade Commission and the US Department of Commerce for relief from imports of off-road tyres from China, India, and Sri Lanka. The petitions were filed jointly with the United Steelworkers union and allege that imports from China and India are being dumped in the US market in violation of international trade agreements and that imports from all three countries are benefitting from improper government subsidies.
Following on from its recent appointment of Stephan van Leeuwen as sales manager for the UK, Ireland and Italy, Magna Tyres has named another Stefan – this time Stefan Huber – its new regional sales manager for the south of Germany. From January 2016 he will work alongside Arno van der Linden, who has been employed as a Magna sales manager for Germany since spring 2015.
Magna Tyres Group has named Stephan van Leeuwen its new sales manager for the UK, Ireland and Italy regions. Van Leeuwen joins the company with over 25 years of experience as a sales manager within the tyre industry’s off-road and passenger car tyre segments.
The northwest region of India’s Gujarat state is home to large areas of desert where you may encounter thorny shrubs, packs of wild animals – and a state-of-the-art US$500 million tyre factory. On a 312 acre site, Balkrishna Industries Ltd. (BKT) has erected one of the largest off-road tyre plants in the world, a facility capable of producing 325 tonnes of tyres per day. Tyres & Accessories visited in early December.
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