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Organisers Expecting More Visitors for CITExpo 2008

Show organisers are expecting more visitors than ever when nearly 300 exhibitors present their tyre products at the 6th CITExpo, held at the Shanghai Everbright Convention and Exhibition Center on 17, 18 and 19 September 2008. Technology on show will include radial tyres, bias tyres, wheels/rims, tyre maintenance equipments, retread materials and equipments, tyre production material and equipment and other related products. According to CITExpo organisers, Reliable International Exhibition Services Co., Ltd., the two original exhibition halls have already been fully occupied by new and rebooking exhibitors, causing them to add Hall 1A to exhibition space.

Looking ahead, Reliable announced that the 7th CITExpo will be held in the same venue on 9, 10 and 11 September 2009. According to the organizer, they have already received more than 15 exhibitors’ bookings for the 2009 show. Those early bookings have committed a year in advance in order secure the best booth location for the future CITExpo show, the organisers explained.

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Redevelopment for Apollo Factory Site

The 30-acre site of Apollo Tyres’ PTL Enterprise tyre manufacturing facility in Kalassery will reportedly be used for residential and commercial development following the factory’s relocation to Irapuram in the southwest India state of Kerala. The company intends to invest around Rs 400 million (£4.97 million) in the first phase of the relocation project, and in the second phase it will begin the production of cross-ply tyres at the new site. Previous reports indicate the factory will focus upon the production of specialty tyres.

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Sales are Vanity, Profit is Sanity

According to market analysts Plimsoll Publishing, the company’s Tyre Manufacturers & Distributors report published in June, “prompted a backlash in the…industry.” In response to this, Plimsoll has produced an updated study to incorporate the very latest figures and bring the picture right up to date.

The feedback Plimsoll received from the original publication was that in general, companies were not experiencing too much difficulty in retaining sales. This is borne out in the updated analysis that puts current market growth at a respectable 5 per cent. Note however this is down from the previous year’s 7 per cent. 156 of the 200 companies analysed are said to be holding or increasing sales on last year.

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China Tyre Output Growth Slows

China’s tyre industry, now the world’s largest, is tipped to experience slowing growth in the first half of the year as exports begin feeling the affect of a global economic slowdown. This sober outlook was given by the China Rubber Industry Association, which added that profit margins have been eaten away by raw material costs.

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Max-imum Benefit

In early August Goodyear was host to more than 50 representatives from DAF Trucks along with fleet customers, presenting a workshop to show the benefits of specifying the latest DAF truck models with the new Goodyear Max Technology tyres. Included in the event, held at Goodyear’s European Technical Centre in Luxembourg, was a visit to the company’s truck tyre production facility in Wittlich, Germany and its Luxembourg Mounting Facility (LMC), where tyres earmarked for OE manufacturers are fitted to wheels before shipment to truck manufacturers.

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Maywood Set to Turn the Nation Following Successful Trial

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Following what the Maywood Equipment Group reports has been a very successful pilot scheme, the company has introduced a brand new product onto the market. The Maywood Car Turntable is an item suitable for small garages and workshops, as well as for other automotive related firms such as accident repairers and tyre bays. Maywood believes its simple operation will also attract businesses and homeowners situated in limited access locations where it is unsafe or inconvenient to reverse out of the premises.

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A Driving Force

As managing director of Malaysia’s Goodway, Alison Wong (Wong Ping Kiong) was seen as instrumental to many of the company’s successes. 2008 sees her assume the role of Chief Operating Officer

Sales at Goodway Integrated Industries have been healthy these last few years, to say the least. In 2007, the company reported turnover of RM209 million (42.2 million euros), 70 per cent of which was derived from its rubber compound products and the remainder from retreading operations. Goodway attributes a proportion of its good fortune during the last few years to its then managing director, Alison Wong, whom the company has called “a driving force behind Goodway’s many successes.”

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Grouptyre Launches New Website

Grouptyre has launched a new website, which is designed to reflect its new corporate identity. “While it’s important to ensure our website promotes the new-look Grouptyre, we have also taken the opportunity to develop certain aspects of the site to provide greater functionality and are now confident it will prove a useful resource for all our customer groups,” said director of commercial operations Karl Naylor.

The website has now added profiles of all Grouptyre’s suppliers – including all the premium brands, a wide range of budget brands and some carefully selected exclusive brands – plus links to the manufacturers’ own websites. There is also information on, and a link to, the Grouptyre ‘virtual warehouse’ Grouplink, which gives independent tyre retailers and garages desktop access to a wealth of product and stockholding information.

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Watts Launches New Products

Watts Tyre Group is to launch two new products into the market in the coming months – the Premia Press On Band and the Sherpa Industrial Pneumatic. The Premia POB, which was unveiled at CeMAT in Hannover this year, represents a new generation of POB tyres designed with high performance applications in mind. Its contoured design has been engineered to produce low stress points at the band/rubber interface to give outstanding rubber to steel bond characteristics. Available in Traction and Smooth tread patterns, the Premia POB is also produced in Non Marking and Electrically Conducting compounds.

In the final quarter of 2008 Watts will be launching the Sherpa, a high quality Industrial Pneumatic designed to meet the most demanding of requirements. Watts’ initial field tests have shown that Sherpa outperforms other industrial pneumatics in its class, results that are supported by independent tests which show that it lasts longer under a variety of different conditions than a number of the industry’s market leading products.

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Bridgestone Americas Appoints First Female Plant Manager

Bridgestone Metalpha U.S.A., Inc. (BMU), a subsidiary of Bridgestone Americas Holding, Inc., announced on August 11 that Donna Bright has been promoted to plant manager of the BMU radial steel cord manufacturing facility in Clarksville, Tennessee. With the promotion, effective August 16, Bright becomes the first female plant manager at any Bridgestone Americas facility.

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Conti’s Supervisory Board “Open to Talks With Schaeffler”

Continental AG’s management is struggling to find a majority willing to back its anti-takeover strategy on the group’s supervisory board. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung confirmed earlier reports that supervisory board head Hubertus von Gruenberg sees a merger with Schaeffler as beneficial and therefore is skeptical about getting involved in a drawn out battle with the takeover aggressor. Hans-Olaf Henkel and Michael Frenzel, CEO of TUI AG. are also believed to back negotiations with Schaeffler, the paper added. However, supervisory board members Diethard Breipohl and Fred Steingraber are said to be sticking to their guns with a view to eventually forcing Schaeffler to increase its bid, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung reported.

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Toyo an OE Partner for Record Breaking Renault Model

The sportiest version of Renault’s Mégane yet manufactured, the Mégane Renaultsport R26.R, is to feature Toyo tyres as an OE option. The performance hatchback, which had its public debut at the British International Motor Show, will be made available from October in a limited edition restricted to just 450 vehicles, and each will be fitted with Toyo Proxes R88 tyres. The tyres are an option on the Mégane R26.R in conjunction with a roll cage for those who want to use the car on track, replacing the Michelin Pilot Sport 2 tyres in size 225/40R18 otherwise supplied with the car. As the car is a lightweight circuit special with a notable performance to price ratio, the roll cage and track tyre combination is anticipated to be a popular option.

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World Rubber Summit and Tyrexpo Asia Join Forces

The International Rubber Study Group (IRSG) is to stage its next World Rubber Summit alongside TyrexpoAsia09. The news means delegates, speakers and exhibitors from both events can take advantage of the enormous networking and information sharing opportunities provided. Making the announcement, Dr Hidde Smit, the IRSG’s secretary-general, said: “Joining forces with TyrexpoAsia is a perfect opportunity for us to add real value to our World Rubber Summit in Singapore. I know this will be welcomed by the hundreds of delegates, speakers and high profile figures from the global rubber industries who will be in Singapore next March.

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Firestone Liberia Plantation Deal Brings Significant Gains, says USW

The United Steelworkers (USW) union has voiced its approval for a labour agreement signed between Firestone and rubber workers in Liberia. Under the terms of this agreement, says the USW, workers at one of the world’s largest rubber plantations will receive wage increases, an improvement in work conditions and upgraded housing and educational facilities.

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Indian Rubber Exports Rise 38% in April-July

India’s natural rubber exports are said to have increased 38 per cent between April and July this year, according to estimates from the country’s Rubber Board. A total of 23,998 were exported during the period as opposed to 14,816 tonnes in the same period of the previous financial year. Favourable global market conditions in July led to a total of 10,862 tonnes of natural rubber exported during this month alone.

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