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Conti’s SC20 Clean – the Big Cheese at FrieslandCampina

If you’ll indulge, we’d like to talk about cheese for a moment – but bear with us, there is method behind our digression into the world of delicious dairy products…Dutch cheese is, as you are well aware, famous throughout the world. FrieslandCampina Cheese alone makes 1,000 tons of this dairy product every week in the village of Gerkesklooster. In all, the company operates twelve cheese factories in the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany, utilising 1,400 forklifts to store and load its products.

29th April 2010/by Tyrepress Editors

If Fast Fit Be the Food of Love…

Friends, Romans, motorists, lend me your ears…Tyre technicians at a fast fit centre in Bath have been brushing up on their Shakespeare in a novel celebration of the Bard’s birthday with drivers in the city. Staff at HiQ wrote Shakespeare’s most famous lines on the windscreens of all cars on Friday 23 April – the date widely believed to be Shakespeare’s birthday. And what, you may ask, does Shakespeare have to do with the world of rubber, save his love letter to the black circle, 'Pericles, Prince of Tyre'? It is suggested that HiQ Bath’s forecourt was the ground from which Shakespeare recited his soliloquies in the city.

28th April 2010/by Tyrepress Editors

We’re Back on the Road to Success, Conti Shareholders Told

Addressing the company’s Annual Shareholders’ Meeting, held in Hannover, Germany on April 28, chairman of the Continental AG Executive Board, Dr. Elmar Degenhart, stated “if you wanted to summarise the year 2009, you could boil it down to a simple notion – state of emergency.” The major events affecting the market, he added, resulted in the most dramatic economic crisis in the post-war era.

28th April 2010/by Tyrepress Editors

Continental Back in the Black in Q1

During the three months to March 31, Continental AG achieved sales of almost six billion euros, a 1.7 billion euro year-on-year increase. At 494 million euros, the company’s reported EBIT was more than 650 million euros higher than the comparative figure for the previous year’s quarter. From this total, sales from Conti’s Rubber Group accounted for 2.2 billion of the total, and reported group EBIT was 313 million euros.

28th April 2010/by Tyrepress Editors

Jerez Circuit’s “Diverse Corner Layout” a Challenge for Bridgestone MotoGP Tyre

Following the postponement of the Japanese Grand Prix (thanks to a certain Icelandic volcano), Bridgestone is heading back to the scene of its pre-season testing in Jerez, Spain this weekend for the second round of the 2010 MotoGP Championship. The Jerez circuit is “a good test circuit because of the diversity of the corner layout”, says Tohru Ubukata, manager of Bridgestone’s Motorcycle Tyre Development Department. “This means that we require a tyre with a very balanced character to provide good handling from low speed to high speed and from flat corners through changes in elevation,” Ubukata continues.

27th April 2010/by Tyrepress Editors

ATS Euromaster Launches 2010 Winter Tyre Offer

Following the onset of the harshest winter driving conditions in years during the 2009-2010 season, there has been much speculation – and some evidence – over the likelihood of growth in the UK market for specialist tyres in 2010. For example, Finnish manufacturer Nokian has recently reported “strongest growth” in winter tyres (see ‘Nokian Preparing for Growith in 2010’). ATS Euromaster is positioning itself for a run on winter rubber having launched a dedicated cold weather tyre offering for car and light commercial fleets up to 7.5 tonnes, in which it will label and store off-season tyres for customers. The company says it will build on “a wealth of expertise within the Euromaster Group”, which already supplies, fits and stores cold weather tyres for fleets across northern Europe. ATS-E says it supplies 300,000 cold weather tyres to Holland every year – a significant number, especially considering this is in a country with a similar climate to the UK.

27th April 2010/by Tyrepress Editors

Japan’s Tyre-makers Stock Gains on Increased Citi Growth Forecast

Shares in Japan’s three largest tyre manufacturers (Bridgestone, Yokohama and Sumitomo) have risen in Tokyo trading this morning, following recommendations made by Citigroup. Bloomberg reports that the gains were made following a report by Citi’s analysts suggesting 2010’s global demand growth in tyres would be 8.2 per cent, as opposed to the previously quoted 5.5 per cent.

27th April 2010/by Tyrepress Editors

Keegan Believes Leadership was “Catalyst for Corporate Transformation”

Robert Keegan has made his first public appearance since Richard J Kramer took over the role as chief executive officer at the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company, speaking to 600 at the Greater Akron Speaks Out for Values breakfast in the tyre manufacturer’s home town on 26 April. The Akron Beacon Journal reports that Keegan told those attending the Christian business fundraiser that when he took on the role in 2003, the company “needed core change” and that installing new “inspirational, aspirational leaders” had been the “catalyst for corporate transformation”.

27th April 2010/by Tyrepress Editors

Bridgestone Sees Hot China Growth, Increasing Production

Bridgestone Corporation expects aggressive growth in China this year, regardless of how the country’s currency sits against the US dollar. Sales of cars, SUVs, buses and commercial trucks in China are expected to exceed 2008 levels by more than 10 per cent, according to Bridgestone China managing director Yujiro Kanahara.

27th April 2010/by Tyrepress Editors

Columbus McKinnon Exhibiting at ‘Unique’ Essen Show

Columbus McKinnon, which currently supplies approximately 400 shredding and recycling installations in more than 25 countries worldwide, has described Reifen as a “unique venue to network with other professionals and explore the many successes in the recycling industry.” The company has played a key role in providing scrap tyre processing equipment to the industry for over 30 years.

26th April 2010/by Tyrepress Editors

Barry Stocker Appointed Sales Director for Genan

Denmark-based Genan Business & Development A/S, which purports to be the world’s largest tyre recycling company, has appointed Barry Stocker as sales director for UK and Ireland. According to the company the appointment took effect on 1 February 2010. At the time Stocker was president of the Tyre Recovery Association (TRA) and member of the UK Tyre Working Group, however Tyres & Accessories understands that the association has since appointed a new president and will shortly release a statement confirming this. Prior to joining Genan Stocker was commercial director for Murfitts Industries Ltd and spent most of his professional career within tyre recycling in the UK.

26th April 2010/by Tyrepress Editors

Vipal and Fate Sign US$200 million Tyre Factory Memorandum of Understanding

International News, News

Brazilian company Vipal, best known for its tyre retreading and repair materials, and Argentine tyremaker Fate have signed a memorandum of understanding with the Rio Grande do Sul State of Southern Brazil to set up a new tyre factory. The first bi-national industrial collaboration in the state, the Vipal/Fate project sees the companies invest around US$200 million in building a “farm equipment” and “aftermarket car parts” tyre plant. There has been no official confirmation of what brand the new tyres will be produced under, but Tyres & Accessories understands that this means production will focus on passenger car and van tyres.

26th April 2010/by Tyrepress Editors

Avon’s Lewis Appointed MD of Cooper International Trading Company

Nigel Lewis, currently purchasing director for Avon Tyres in Melksham, will as of June 1 take on the role of managing director of Cooper Tire International Trading Company in Singapore. In this capacity he will be responsible for overseeing the operations of the Singapore buying office and procurement of natural rubber.

26th April 2010/by Tyrepress Editors

Falken CEO Named Sumitomo Executive Officer

Falken Tire Corporation chairman and CEO Yasushi (Tank) Tanaka has been promoted to executive officer of Sumitomo Rubber Industries, Falken’s parent company, reports Tire Review. Tanaka will continue to head Falken’s North America business. Tanaka joined SRI in 1976, and has spent the majority of his career in the export and OE departments of SRI and SRI Tire Trading Ltd.

23rd April 2010/by Tyrepress Editors

Forbes Ranks Goodyear 40th “Most Reputable” US Company

Forbes Magazine has published its fifth annual list of the companies with the best reputation in the USA, with The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company ranked 40th. Goodyear says the list is based on the Reputation Institute’s US Reputation Pulse consumer opinion survey, which aims to measure the overall respect, trust, esteem, admiration and good feelings consumers hold toward the country’s 150 largest companies.

23rd April 2010/by Tyrepress Editors