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New Motaquip Product Planner

Motor parts supplier Motaquip has announced the appointment of Andy Hill as product planner, expanding its product team to eight. He will be responsible for Motaquip’s timing and drive belts range, compiling catalogues, setting prices and developing range additions. Andy Hill has over 25 years’ automotive industry experience, having worked for Lucas SRE, TRW Automotive and Lucas Automotive. Prior to joining Motaquip, he was product development manager for Timken, where his responsibilities included the company’s automotive aftermarket product activities.

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Pierce Selects SmarTire to Supply TPMS

SmarTire Systems Inc has announced that Pierce Manufacturing Inc., an Oshkosh Truck Corporation company, will include the SmarTire’s active TPMS as an option for new and existing fire-fighting vehicles. Pierce Manufacturing is North America’s leading manufacturer of fire and safety apparatus.

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Successful Debut For IQPC “Intelligent Tire Technology“Conference

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At the end of last year the International Quality & Productivity Center (IQPC) organised its first conference dedicated to tyre related topics. As the name of the event suggests, it mainly dealt with intelligent tyre technologies – meaning run-flat tyres and tyre pressure monitoring systems (TPMS). Participants were invited to take part in a day-long workshop immediately before the two-day conference with the first day completely focusing on new developments. The second conference day featured information about a wide range of different topics like for example tyre/road noise, chassis control and the design of alloy wheels.

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The Widest Possible Niche

The history of Balkrishna Tyres, a company that is probably better known by its initials – BKT, began with its incorporation in 1988. The production of off-highway tyres followed in 1995. Since its foundation BKT has made its mark in the niche segments and offers tyres for agricultural, construction, industrial and earthmover applications. Now, with £39 million (Euro 56 million) being invested, the cumulative production capacity at all three of BKT’s plants is set to almost double, from 60,000 to 100,000 tons per annum. Part of this investment will go towards the introduction of a radial earthmover tyre range later this year.

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NETE Installs Telematics to Streamline Vehicle Management

North Eastern Tyre and Exhaust Ltd (NETE) has equipped its fleet of 50 delivery vehicles with Aerotrack vehicle management equipment. The system, manufactured by Aeromark of Bedford, uses wireless telematics technology to track the location of every vehicle on the fleet and to monitor other important management information.

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Cooper Names New Product Design Manager

(Akron/Tire Review) Cooper Tire & Rubber Co has named P Glenn Arbaugh as its new manager of product design. He will be responsible for managing the company’s product design group and support the marketing, product development and mould operations groups.

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Senior Developer Appointed at Cam Systems

Cam Systems has appointed a new Senior Developer to join its management team to strengthen both its product development capability and assist with the career progression of its in house team of software developers.

Karyn Boots joins the company’s Gloucestershire head office from Atkins Management Consultants, a leading provider of technology-based consultancy and support services to major clients in the public and private sectors. As an IT Consultant with the £1 billion turnover company, Karyn worked with organisations including the Welsh Assembly, Swindon Borough Council and the Welsh Development Agency.

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Amerityre Appoints New Chief Operating Officer

(Akron/Tire Review) Gary N Benninger, PhD has been appointed chief operating officer at Amerityre Corp, effective 16 October. Previously, Benninger was director of technology development at auto parts supplier Magna International Inc. and its affiliate MEC. He was responsible for identifying new technologies and managing product launches.

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Denman Names Marketing Director

(Akron/Tire Review) Denman Tire Corp. has named James Tuschner to the newly created position of director of marketing. Tuschner, who joined Denman in 1999, was previously the company’s mid-central regional sales manager. In his new position, Tuschner will be responsible for formulating market plans, product planning and positioning, new product development and service, and assisting in international business development, as well as market research, competitor analyses and developing customer retention initiatives.

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Galaxy, Dynamic Merger Completed

(Akron/Tire Review) The merger of Galaxy Tire & Wheel Inc. and Dynamic Tire Corp. has been completed, resulting in the creation of GPX International Tire Corp. The Boston-based Galaxy Tire and Toronto-based Dynamic Tire announced their merger plans this past June.

Combined as GPX, the companies will post some $300 million in sales for 2005, officials said, and will have operations in North America, Europe and Asia. GPX officials said that the new firm will market Galaxy and Primex brands as its “flagship” tyre brands.

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Cooper Sets Commercial Tire Sales and Marketing Posts

(Akron/Tire Review) Cooper Tire & Rubber Co. made changes to its commercial tyre group, naming Philip Boarts as director of commercial products marketing and Michael Linhart as director of commercial product sales. Boarts will be responsible for all aspects of the commercial products marketing effort including customer service, pricing, product development and retread field service. He joined Cooper from Oliver Rubber Co. in 1999 when Cooper bought the retread product supplier. Linhart, a 15-year Cooper veteran, will be responsible for all commercial product sales.

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Cooper Taps Lauth to Head Lab

(Akron/Tire Review) Timothy Lauth has been named manager of Cooper Tire & Rubber Co’s corporate technical centre materials laboratory. He will be responsible for managing daily laboratory operations and leading future development, administration and execution of testing to enhance capabilities, data integrity and productivity, the company said.

The seven-year Cooper veteran had been a compound development engineer in materials development, an extruded product development engineer for Cooper-Standard, a commercial tyre development engineer and two years in the Melksham, UK, production facility as a factory technical services engineer.

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Goodyear Appoints New VP Finance for NA

The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company has named Marc O Voorhees as vice president of finance for North America. Voorhees comes to Goodyear from Eastman Kodak Company, where he was most recently operations manager, Digital & Film Imaging Systems European Region based in Geneva, Switzerland.

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