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Pirelli to Continue Supplying Tyres for Superbike Championship

Following recent negotiations, FGSport, the planners behind the FIM Superbike World Championship, has signed an agreement with Pirelli to provide the tyres for the competition, as well as the Superstock 1000 FIM Cup and the UEM Supersport 600 European Championship, until 2012. Pirelli is the current supplier for all of these events, and the new contract will extend the run beyond the end of the season, where the current deal would have ended.

According to FGSport, the deal is reflective of the excellence shown by the Italian manufacturer over the past three years, in which no tyre has caused any incidents or recorded any breakages showing optimal reliability. Additionally, Pirelli’s ability to offer strong service and support made competitive bids difficult.

18th July 2008/by Tyrepress Editors

Conti Appoint New South African Marketing Manager

Gareth Passmore has taken over Continental’s marketing operation in South Africa, having been shifted from his post as head of sales and marketing for the Middle East, Near East and North Africa region.

Passmore, originally from Wales, stated that his personal motivation behind the move was to seek out a new challenge for his career, to “experience a new way of life in a different environment” and to be in South Africa during the 2010 football World Cup, an event that the company is sponsoring. Having experienced Conti’s involvement in the 2006 tournament in Germany, Passmore is looking forward to the challenge of helping to develop the sport’s popularity in a country where Rugby Union and Cricket share the nation’s sporting enthusiasm.

18th July 2008/by Tyrepress Editors

Pirelli Seek Consolidation in Turkish Buyout

Pirelli has begun to negotiate the buying out of minority shareholders in its Turkish units Turk Pirelli Lastikleri – which supplies commercial and passenger car tyres – and Celikord, a steel cord manufacturer. The Italian tyre giant owns 69 per cent and 51 per cent of the companies respectively and is looking to consolidate in the growing, strategically-important Turkish market through full ownership. Pirelli has been present within the nation for 50 years.

Financial news sources report that Pirelli is yet to release a statement on the matter, or of any details of the performance of the firms subject to buyout bids.

18th July 2008/by Tyrepress Editors

Win Prizes In Unipart/NGK Promotion

Car parts supplier Unipart Automotive has teamed up with NGK to give away thousands of pounds worth of mystery prizes to workshops across the UK in an exciting lambda sensors promotion.

For every NGK lambda sensor bought at Unipart Automotive during August and September, workshops will receive a pack of NGK Playtime Cards, some of which will contain hidden lucky cards. If your pack includes a lucky prize card then you could be in with a chance of winning an ipod Nano, a Nintendo Wii, a 60 inch HD plasma screen TV with a Sony PS3 games console or one of 200 other mystery prizes.

18th July 2008/by Tyrepress Editors

Brickhill: Supporting Employees in the Community Drives Success

Goodyear Dunlop UK Group Managing Director, Mark Brickhill, has reinforced the company’s commitment to community projects, and has encouraged all employers to seek the benefits that come from supporting their employees in voluntary activity.

Brickhill was speaking following a garden party at Buckingham Palace in honour of the centenary of the Territorial Army which was attended by 6000 guests, including the HRH The Earl of Wessex and HRH The Princess Royal. Over four hundred TA Reservists were invited along to pay tribute to their employers by taking them to this very special event. The Goodyear Dunlop MD had been invited by John Braybrook, Wholesale Manager for the company, who returned from TA assignment in Afghanistan last year.

18th July 2008/by Tyrepress Editors

Dunlop Launches ‘Petrolhead Haven’

According to the tyre manufacturer, the Dunlop Drivers Club stand was one of Goodwood Festival of Speed’s highlights. As Goodwood sponsors, Dunlop Tyres brought Sir Stirling Moss back together with the C-Type Jaguar that he drove in 1953 and heard his fascinating thoughts on the introduction of Dunlop-invented disc-brakes and how life has changed for racing drivers over the last 60 years.

However, those that missed the live action at Goodwood can head to the newly launched web portal, www.dunlopdriversclub.co.uk where Dunlop will share their 120 years of experience on the road and track with driving and motorsport fans across the globe.

18th July 2008/by Tyrepress Editors

Apollo First Quarter Revenues up 15%

Apollo Tyres Ltd has reported that it achieved consolidated first quarter revenues of 13.2 billion rupees (£155 million), up 15 per cent from 11.5 billion rupees during the same period last year. During the same period, consolidated net post tax profit grew 7.3 per cent to 586.6 million rupees (£6.87 million).

Commenting on the results, Onkar S Kanwar, chairman & managing director, Apollo Tyres Ltd, said: “These are probably one of the most challenging times we have faced as a company.”

18th July 2008/by Tyrepress Editors

Ruia Group to Build 4 Billion Rupee Assam Plant

The Ruia Group of Kolkata, India has revealed plans to local news sources that they are to build a new tyre plant on a Greenfield site near the Lokpriya Gopinath Bordoloi International airport in Guwahati. The site is currently being prepared for industrial development by local government and Ruia looks set to invest heavily, with four billion rupees earmarked for the project in the next year and a half.

The company expects the facility to open with a production capacity of 50 tonnes per day initially. Ruia hopes to double that figure over time.

17th July 2008/by Tyrepress Editors

Conti to Make Mount Vernon, Ill. Investment

Continental’s North American division is ready to pump US$60 million into its Illinois plant spread over the next three years. The money will go towards expanding production capacity on the facility’s passenger, light truck and commercial tyre operations. The German manufacturer will expand its workforce to the tune of 75 new jobs, increasing production by around two million tyres every year.

News sources suggest that the company will spend around two-thirds of the total figure on new machinery and tools for the fabrication of passenger and light truck tyres, while the remaining third will be spent on updating the factory’s commercial tyre building machines.

17th July 2008/by Tyrepress Editors

Lone Wolf Crew Cuts its Teeth on Cooper Tyres

The Lone Wolf Transglobal Expedition made full use of the Cooper Discoverer Super Traction Tread on its 12-month trip of 30,000 miles in the wide variety of conditions present in 32 different countries. The success of the team brought lavish praise for the rugged Discoverer, which with its STT shod the crew’s Land Rover Wolf Defender. So much so, that the organisers of the successful expedition will be looking to Cooper Tire & Rubber Company once again to carry them through their next adventure.

The 12-month Lone Wolf trip saw Daniel Moylan and his crew tackle mud, ice, snow and water without a hitch Varying terrain was made all the worse by extreme temperatures, providing a demanding test not for the vehicle, the tyres and the team. The expedition made its way through Europe to Iran and the Middle East, across the jungles of South East Asia, to the USA and South America, before arriving back in the UK.

17th July 2008/by Tyrepress Editors

Goodway Joins TRIB

Goodway Rubber Industries Sdn Bhd from Malaysia has joined Tire Retread & Repair Information Bureau (TRIB) along with Pak Rubber & Retreading Services (Pvt) Ltd. from Pakistan. “We are very happy to welcome both companies to the TRIB family and we know they will enjoy the many benefits TRIB offers to its members worldwide,” said Harvey Brodsky, TRIB’s Managing Director.

17th July 2008/by Tyrepress Editors

Vacu-Lug to Make 15 Redundant in Ops Review

Grantham-based retreading firm, Vacu-Lug is set to make 15 employees redundant in an operational review following difficult trading conditions in the commercial tyre sector. The company, which is Europe’s largest retreader of commercial and industrial tyres, is struggling to retain previous levels of demand in some business areas thanks to current market difficulties in haulage and logistics industries.

A spokesman for the company told local news sources that the review was the company’s response to the slowing economy, while the redundancies do not reflect the expanding nature of other sectors of the business. The company was eager to stress the fact that the move comes as “a restructuring exercise, which will help us continue our growth in other areas of the business.”

17th July 2008/by Tyrepress Editors

Bandvulc Trials Win Trailercare Contract

Bandvulc has won a tyre contract with Midlands-based trailer servicing company, Trailercare, after extensive trials of tyre products. Trailercare managing director, Mark Hemus said he had no hesitation in choosing Bandvulc and is confident that this is the right choice for his work to his blue chip customers. Hemus commented: “Trailercare has a reputation of providing quality service levels at the right prices. The selection criteria for our tyre agreement had to meet these same exacting standards, which Bandvulc achieved and exceeded.”

This arrangement also sees the tyre division of Trailercare (Total Tyre Care) being added to BTC’s list of providers in the West Midlands; a ‘win-win’ for both organisations. Total Tyre Care’s Director/Manager, Carl Falconer comments: “With the experience Bandvulc has in the tyre support network – it was an obvious choice to go down the Bandvulc route, their TSU is one of the best in the industry and is growing all the time. It assists us to be part of that growth”.

17th July 2008/by Tyrepress Editors

BFNAT Plant Gets Environment Award

Bridgestone/Firestone North American Tire’s Warren County, Tenn., medium truck tire plant recently received the 2008 Governor’s Environmental Stewardship Award for accomplishments in pollution prevention.

BFNAT said it installed new pollution-reducing technologies at the plant, added hydrogen-fuel vehicles, reduced mercury lighting in the plant, and cut back on water use. (Tire Review/Akron)

17th July 2008/by Tyrepress Editors

OTR Keeps The Pressure Up

OTR is now supplying tyre pressure monitoring systems as part of its earthmover tyre management service. “The correct pressure in earthmover tyres not only improves the safety and stability of the vehicle, but gives operators a much improved return on investment.” That, says OTR’s Regional sales Manager Paul Skerritt, is a pretty obvious statement, but he goes on to say “you would be amazed at what we find on site sometimes.”

Graeme Manning, OTR’s Commercial Director, says: “Inflation pressure is one of the most important factors affecting tyre life. Fuel efficiency is greatly affected too – a tyre under-inflated by 10 per cent reduces fuel efficiency by 1.5 per cent.”

17th July 2008/by Tyrepress Editors