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Hankook Aims for Higher Margins

Hankook Tire Co has stated it is aiming to boost its operating profit margin to 9.4 per cent this year, up from last year’s 8.4 per cent, despite intense competition within the industry. In a company memo, Hankook CEO Cho Choong-Hwan said that although the company had been through a time of oversupply and rising raw material costs, “there are huge opportunities, however, for well positioned and competitive tyre manufacturers as natural rubber prices are stabilising, and consumption in Europe is beginning to recover.”

9th February 2007/by Tyrepress Editors

Scottish Company Set to Receive Funding for Tyre Recycling Process

A young Scottish company that has developed an environmentally friendly process for recycling used tyres is close to securing a million pound funding deal. RecyclaTech, established last year after being spun out from Edinburgh’s Napier University, is in line to receive this cash injection so it can establish a pilot processing plant, hire additional staff and look at ways to get production going.

9th February 2007/by Tyrepress Editors

Goodyear Plant Worker Dies in Accident

(Akron/Tire Review – Jackson Sun) A worker at Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co.’s Union City, Tennessee, plant died Sunday evening from injuries sustained in an industrial accident at the plant.

In a statement issued by Goodyear, Todd Turner, manager of the plant, said that it was too early to speculate about the cause of the accident, but a full investigation is under way.

“Our thoughts and concerns are with the associate’s family at this very difficult time,” Turner said. “As a plant team, we are deeply saddened.”

8th February 2007/by Tyrepress Editors

Falken Appoints Smallwood, Mandai to Board of Directors

(Akron/Tire Review) Richard Smallwood, president and chief operating officer of Falken Tire Corp., has been appointed to serve on the company’s board of directors.

Kazumichi Mandai, director of Sumitomo Rubber Industries’ Tire Trading Inc., was also selected as a new member of Falken’s board of directors.

8th February 2007/by Tyrepress Editors

Bridgestone Unveils New Rubber for Road and Dirt

The historic city of Cologne was the venue Bridgestone decided upon for the official release of the two newest additions to its two-wheel range. And these two tyres highlight just how diversified the motorcycle tyre sector has become.

7th February 2007/by Tyrepress Editors

Goodyear Unveils Upmarket US Tyre

The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. plans to introduce a new tyre in July that caters for a customer base that purchases premium high-performance cars. This tyre, the carbon-fibre, reinforced Eagle F1 All Season tyre, was revealed at the company’s annual tyre dealers’ conference in held Orlando, Florida at the start of February.

7th February 2007/by Tyrepress Editors

RubberNetwork and Webb Negocios Announce Joint Venture

US based RubberNetwork, a consortium of the companies participating in the global tyre and rubber industry, and Brazil based Webb Negocios, a company specialising in consulting, ebusiness and outsourcing Company, announce the formation of a jointly owned enterprise, RubberNetwork-Webb. The newly constituted company builds on a five-year commercial relationship between RubberNetwork and Webb and draws on the strengths of both companies. The venture will offer a range of Supply Chain services aimed at reducing costs and improving efficiency to companies in the community of the tyre and rubber industry.

7th February 2007/by Tyrepress Editors

The Role of Profile

(Rubber Asia, Kerala, India) Rubber products are important to automobiles because they perform certain key functions better than any other known materials – functions that cannot be done by any material other than elastomers.

7th February 2007/by Tyrepress Editors

Goodyear Debuts Ad Campaign at Dealer Conference, Renews NASCAR Contract

(Akron/Tire Review) Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. introduced dealers to a new consumer marketing and advertising campaign that supports an all-new theme for the Goodyear brand: “Get There.”

Larry Mason, president of consumer tyres, officially debuted the new message and accompanying television ads at Goodyear’s annual dealer meeting in Orlando, Florida.

6th February 2007/by Tyrepress Editors

Michelin Releases Longer Lasting Tyre

Michelin has launched a tyre that the company claims to be the most notable technological breakthrough since the radial technology was first applied to truck tyres in 1952. The tyre – Michelin’s X One MaxiTrailer – reportedly provides up to 50 per cent more mileage than a comparable standard 385/65 R 22.5 tyre.

6th February 2007/by Tyrepress Editors

Goodyear Launches New Tyres at Dealer Meeting

(Akron/Tire Review) At the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. dealer meeting today in Orlando, Fla., Goodyear introduced the new ultra-high performance Eagle F1 all-season tyre, an “expanded” Wrangler SR-A tyre as well as the new Ultra Grip Performance and Ultra Grip SUV winter tyres.

5th February 2007/by Tyrepress Editors

Union is Optimistic a Deal Can be Reached Without Strike

(Akron/Tire Review – Des Moines Register) Al Skinner and Mark Highland both live in the Des Moines area, but they could be spending a lot of time together in St. Louis in the next several weeks.

2nd February 2007/by Tyrepress Editors

NR Prices See Another Jump

(Akron/Tire Review) Natural rubber prices continue to rise and dive, wreaking havoc among tiremakers and other rubber-based manufacturers. Rubber prices on the Shanghai Futures Exchange increased 2% on Jan. 31 to an estimated $2,800 per ton, according to Bloomberg News, its highest price since August.

2nd February 2007/by Tyrepress Editors

DTI, Consortium to Fund Tyre Scrap Research funding matched by industry.

Plastics and rubber consultancy Rapra Technology is heading up a UK consortium of six companies who will conduct research into the devulcanisation of scrap tyre rubber. The two-year project is being funded by the Department of Trade and Industry as part of its Design and Manufacture of Sustainable Products programme, with more than £420,000 of direct financial assistance to be provided. The project partners will contribute another £420,000 between them.

2nd February 2007/by Tyrepress Editors

Driving ahead with a passion for quality

(Rubber Asia, Kerala, India) The strides made by Mardec RK Latex Group ever since its humble beginning in the 1940s are a typical example of how passion and commitment to quality can take a business to great heights. The group, which started off with large rubber estates in Kerala, the home of Indian rubber, expanded into creamed and centrifuged latex in the 80s and early 90s to emerge as one of the largest processors of these products in India.

1st February 2007/by Tyrepress Editors