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Schrader Introduces New TPMS Learn and Test Tool

Schrader-Bridgeport International, Inc. has launched a new “AirAware Learn and Test Tool Kit” that includes an OBD adapter designed for Toyota, Nissan, Hyundai, and Kia Tyre Pressure Monitoring Systems (TPMS). The new Learn and Test Tool Kit includes a Learn and Test Tool (21220) and OBD Connector Assembly (21225), which captures TPMS sensor ID’s, and programs them directly to the vehicle. The kit works as both a scan tool and a TPMS tool, and eliminates the need for separate OE or aftermarket scan tools for these vehicles.

The new kit is currently compatible with Toyota, Nissan, Hyundai and Kia models, with plans to add Acura, Lexus, Infiniti, Honda, Subaru and Mitsubishi compatibility in the near future.

7th January 2009/by Tyrepress Editors

One Equity Partners to Buy Remaining Columbian Chemicals Share

Equity Investment company One Equity Partners has agreed to pay $150 million to acquire the remaining 66.75 per cent stake in Columbian Chemicals Holding LLC that it does not already own. Columbian Chemicals, based in the US state of Georgia, manufactures carbon black for use in tyres and plastic products.

7th January 2009/by Tyrepress Editors

Bike Tyrestore on Show at the NEC

Bike Tyrestore is once again exhibiting at the Motorcycle Trade Expo at Birmingham’s NEC on 18 -20 January. Company managing director, Peter Smith, told Tyres & Accessories that the company is confident it can repeat last year’s successful growth in sales to the motorcycle tyre trade in 2009. On show with its major partners, Bridgestone, Michelin and Sava, BTS will be demonstrating “YOUR Online Warehouse”, the company’s on-line enquiry and order service and Customer Loyalty Rewards programme “Moto-Vate”, which has just concluded a unique deal with the Ron Haslam Race School. BTS won “Best Trade Service” award last year and is known for having the friendliest Customer Service Team in the business.

7th January 2009/by Tyrepress Editors

Hull Tyre Shop Damaged in Ram Raid

Local news sources have reported that criminals using a blue Ford Fiesta drove through the shutters of Trojan Tyres on Oxford Street in Hull, causing £5,000-worth of damage. It is not known why the secure compound was targeted, as a preliminary search of the site has revealed that nothing is missing.

7th January 2009/by Tyrepress Editors

Pelmar Engineering Annual Conference

Pelmar Engineering has announced that it is to hold its annual conference in Hamburg, Germany this year. The company is holding its conference alongside Tire Technology Expo 2009. According to a statement on the matter, the 2009 conference is the first time that the event will be held outside of Israel. “The main reasons are the vast international expansion and the increased sales and engineering contracts signed in Europe,” the statement explained.

7th January 2009/by Tyrepress Editors

New Dunlop Race Academy Format Revealed

ITV has Simon Cowell and the X Factor, but Dunlop has the Dunlop Race Academy, and the motorsport equivalent of the popular talent show has announced a number of changes for 2009. This year the Dunlop Race Academy will focus on developing drivers aged between 16 and 30 who have already made a start in their race careers. The competition has also introduces a new geographical element, dividing the UK into six regions, pitting drivers from each region against each other.

6th January 2009/by Tyrepress Editors

MTNA Produces 1,000,000th Ringtread

Last December, Marangoni management and employees celebrated the production of the millionth Ringtread in the United States. The seven-digit number was reached on December 12, four and a half years after the first tyre was retreaded with Marangoni’s Alpha-Ring system in the US.

During a staff celebration to mark the occasion, company CEO and president Bill Sweatman said “Today, we manufactured our one millionth Ringtread here in the United States. We are proud and thankful that we have been able to achieve this important milestone. This is the icing on the cake in a year full of successes! Our unit sales have increased more than 10 per cent this year and along with other improvements we’ve made we have gained in both market share and market strength.

6th January 2009/by Tyrepress Editors

US Tyre Firms Announce Layoffs

The US tyre industry announced over 100 job losses today in both the manufacturing and retail segments. News reports suggest that Titan is to cut 80 jobs from its Freeport, Illinois plant in addition to taking on a six-weeks-on/two-weeks-off schedule, while Les Schwab Tire Centers’ distribution centre in Prineville, Oregon is set to shed 27 employees.

“There’s certainly a level of tentativeness about what the future holds in the short-term,” USW Local 745 President Steve Vanderheyden told Rockford’s WIFR-TV. “There’s been less construction companies willing to buy large mining rigs for example that would have our tires on them.”

6th January 2009/by Tyrepress Editors

Bridgestone Operating Profit Anticipated to Drop 15%

According to Japan’s Nikkei financial daily, Bridgestone expects its operating profit to decrease by 15 per cent to 100 billion yen (£742.7 million) in the 2009 calendar year. The Japanese tyre major anticipates sales will fall about 10 per cent from their 2008 level, to around 2.85 trillion yen (£21.2 billion), reported the newspaper.

On December 22 the company reported an expected 2008 operating profit of 118 billion yen (£876.4 million), significantly down on the 249.96 billion achieved in 2007.

6th January 2009/by Tyrepress Editors

Sealey’s New Year Sale

With the holidays over, what better way to kick off 2009 than with Sealey’s New Year Sale which launched on the 1st January 2009? This massive 48-page promotion is packed with hundreds of Sealey’s fastest moving tools and equipment. Whether a professional or serious DIY enthusiast, now’s the chance to get organised and your garage or workshop in check for 2009. The promotion runs until the 28th February 2009 and copies of this promotion and Sealey’s latest catalogue can be obtained from local Sealey distributors or directly from Sealey.

6th January 2009/by Tyrepress Editors

6 Million Indian Truckers Down Tools

Indian news sources have reported that more than six million of the nation’s trucks are off the road at the beginning of 2009, as a strike has been called following deadlock in union negotiations over the price of tyres and fuel. Talks stalled late on Sunday evening when Road, Transport and Highways secretary Brahm Dutt failed to reach a satisfactory agreement with the All-Indian Motor Transport Congress. The AIMTC’s major targets were a 10 rupee deduction in diesel costs and a rationalisation of tyre prices.

6th January 2009/by Tyrepress Editors

Starco Launches New Website

Industrial and niche tyre specialist Starco has launched a newly redeveloped website. According to marketing co-ordinator, Sharon Wilkins, the upgraded web presence recognises “the increasing importance and prominence the Internet plays in our daily communication.” Company representatives told Tyres & Accessories that the company’s goal is to provide visitors even more relevant information on group issues, while still enabling them to quickly find information about local group companies. At the moment, the page is available in English with German, Russian and Danish translations expected shortly. The new site can be found at www.starco.com.

6th January 2009/by Tyrepress Editors

Conti Revises US Web Site

Continental Tire North America launched a redesigned consumer Web site at www.continentaltire.com. CTNA said the revised site is easier to navigate, “and echoes the graphic scheme of the company’s upcoming new ‘Confidence’ ad campaign.”

The site includes links to the company’s latest news, promotions and events, as well as a dealer locator and links for consumers to select and register their tyres. In addition, there is an FAQ page and “Tech Docs” section to answer consumer questions and provide technical advice. (Tire Review/Akron)

6th January 2009/by Tyrepress Editors

PAX System Class Action Suit Settled

Michelin North America Inc. and American Honda Motor Co. have settled a class action lawsuit with consumer claiming they were misled about Michelin-produced run-flat tyres. Terms of the agreement were not released, and final court certification is expected on 14 January.

The federal consumer class action suit claimed Michelin, which made the tyres, and Honda, which outfitted certain cars and minivans with Michelin’s PAX Tire and Wheel Assembly System, failed to disclose that the tyres last half as long as standard tyres, that the tyres were “prohibitively expensive to repair and replace” and that sufficient repair facilities and stock of the tyres and other parts of the PAX system do not exist in the U.S. (Tire Review/Akron)

6th January 2009/by Tyrepress Editors

Toyo Promotes Corporate Officers

Several key promotions were made by both Toyo Tire Holdings of Americas Inc. and its subsidiary, Toyo Tire USA Corp. As of 1 January, Carlos Kibata became chairman of Toyo Tire Holdings of Americas. He had been president and CEO of TTHA, and was the founding president of Toyo Tire North America Manufacturing Inc.

Concurrently, Masaharu Yoshimoto, president and CEO of Toyo Tire USA, was named president and CEO of TTHA. Yasushi Takagi was promoted to president and CEO of Toyo Tire USA, having served as COO and executive vice president of the company since September 2008. (Tire Review/Akron)

6th January 2009/by Tyrepress Editors