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Goodyear Set to Raise Prices

(Akron/Tire Review) Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. has informed its North American dealers that it will be increasing tyre prices between 5 and 8 per cent across the board as of 1 September. The increase impacts its Goodyear, Kelly Springfield and Dunlop brands, as well as all associate and private brands.

Goodyear said consumer tyre prices will jump between 5 and 8 per cent, commercial tyre prices will increase up to 5 per cent, and OTR tyre prices will go up between 5 and 8 per cent. Rising raw material and “transportation” costs were cited as the reason for this round of increases.

4th August 2005/by Tyrepress Editors

Group Tyre Puts E-commerce to Work

Group Tyre claims to have seen “huge benefits” by continually investing in IT and embracing the e-commerce route. “We are constantly innovating,” says Group Tyre chairman John Church, “because we are committed to delivering a national-strength service, with immediacy of response on a truly local basis. By making IT work positively for us, we can provide a service that is literally second-to-none.”

The Group Link Virtual Warehouse is the main service offered to Group Tyre’s national wholesale network. The Windows based system confirms stock availability by providing real time stock data and expected delivery times. Together with mark-up guidelines, Group Link enables a customer enquiry to be processed with delivery and cost advised on the spot. The benefits of offering an e-commerce solution have been an improvement in customer care and sales which have had a massive impact in the independent tyre sector, says Group Tyre.

3rd August 2005/by Tyrepress Editors

Strike, Raw Materials Drop Cooper Earnings for the Half

(Akron/Tire Review) Cooper Tire & Rubber Co posted a net loss of $7 million in its second quarter of 2005, a downturn fuelled by the strike at its Texarkana, Arkansas, tyre plant earlier this year and rising raw material costs. Cooper also lost $2 million overall for the first half of 2005.

Net sales for the second quarter reached $511 million, up slightly from sales of $509 for the same period last year. For the first six months, Cooper racked up net sales of $1 billion, up 4 per cent versus the first half of 2004.

2nd August 2005/by Tyrepress Editors

TIC Introduce Training Award

The Tyre Industry Council has announced the implementation of a new training award set up in association with technical service provider Entyrety.

The award will form a part of the council’s tyre safety scheme established two years ago, and has been instigated to recognise and reward those companies operating within the UK industry that make a “positive commitment to improving the quality of their in-house training programmes.”

2nd August 2005/by Tyrepress Editors

Yokohama Announces New Design Technologies

(Akron/Tire Review) Yokohama Rubber Co. announced that it has developed new, third-generation tyre design technologies. The manufacturer’s “multiscale simulation” and “multi-performance map” display information for optimal design proposals, it said.

Multiscale simulation allows for predictions of physical properties based on combinations of compounds and frictional coefficients, Yokohama said. “As a result, we can make more realistic performance predictions for vehicles based on more accurate wear forecasts of front and rear tires and other factors,” said the tyremaker.

1st August 2005/by Tyrepress Editors

USW Begins Titan Negotiations

(Akron/Tire Review) United Steelworkers’ (USW) international leadership has extended approval to Titan Tire Corp to start negotiations with USW Local 745 in Freeport, Illinois. This move is a significant step towards Titan’s pending purchase of Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co’s North American agricultural tyre business. Under the terms of Goodyear’s contract with the USW, any purchaser must reach a new contract agreement with the union.

28th July 2005/by Tyrepress Editors

Cooper Appoints New Technical VP

(Akron/Tire Review) Cooper Tire & Rubber Co has appointed Charles G Yurkovich Jr as technical vice president. Mr Yurkovich will lead Cooper’s technical organisation in developing new products and technologies and improving current ones, said Cooper.

Prior to this appointment, he had worked in various technical management roles in the consumer, commercial and retread markets and held sales and marketing management positions at Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. Mr Yurkovich also holds US patents on light truck and medium truck tyre designs, according to Cooper.

28th July 2005/by Tyrepress Editors

Recycled Tyre Garden Gets Gold at RHS Show

A recycled rubber garden product has helped Cheshire County Council to win ‘Best in Show’ and a ‘Gold Award’ at the prestigious RHS (Royal Horticultural Society) Flower Show held at Tatton Park, Knutsford, Cheshire. The county council won the accolades for its environmentally-friendly garden – called ‘Living Today with Tomorrow in Mind.’ Committed to sustainability, the ‘green’ garden was landscaped with Dunweedin, rubber chippings made from recycled tyres.

27th July 2005/by Tyrepress Editors

RMA Join TRA

The Retread Manufacturers Association (RMA) is to become an affiliate of the Tyre Recovery Association (TRA).

TRA president, Roger Hicks, welcomed the move and views it as further endorsement of the TRA and its membership. He commented: “We as a body are still formulating our larger objectives and the willingness of the RMA to join with us in this future process will add to our sense of purpose. Together with the British Rubber Manufacturers’ Association who affiliated earlier this year we believe we are now in key position to help ensure the UK not only meets its obligations under the EU Landfill Directive but does so from a position of real strength and influence.”

RMA chairman, Patrick O’Connell, said: “Retreading plays a crucial role in the tyre recovery process and, as such, we are delighted to join the TRA as an affiliate member. Our decision to join the TRA should be seen as indicative of the RMA’s willingness to co-operate with other industry associations and of our desire to continue to play an active role in issues of cross-industry interest.”

27th July 2005/by Tyrepress Editors

Bridgestone Welcomes ‘Greatest Drive’ Award

The Volkswagen Golf GTI, which fits Bridgestone Potenza tyres, has been voted the ‘Greatest Drive’ of 2005 by Auto Express magazine.

“This is excellent news,” said Andy Lane, consumer marketing manager at Bridgestone UK. “The Golf GTI is an exciting, top-of-the-range car that requires the very best in grip and control, and this is just another example of how the UK’s top cars can perform at their best on Bridgestone rubber.”

27th July 2005/by Tyrepress Editors

Federal Tire To Increase Prices

Federal Tire will introduce a 3-5 per cent price increase across its full line of tyres beginning in October. “Rocketing” natural rubber, carbon black and other petroleum products in combination with higher transportation costs are all said to have contributed to the price increase. In an official statement announcing the price increases, Federal also pointed out that the present price increase does not fully reflect the company’s additional costs. Instead the company says it is “doing its best to absorb as much of it as possible.”

27th July 2005/by Tyrepress Editors

ContiTech in Talks to Sell Sealing Operations

Continental division ContiTech is in talks with private equity investor Orlando Management GmbH to sell its rubber sealing business ContiTech Profile to Orlando Management client Special Situations Venture Partners Fund, a spokesman for Orlando Management told the AFX news agency.

26th July 2005/by Tyrepress Editors

Former Goodyear Exec Who Fought Goldsmith Dies

(Akron/Tire Review) Frederick Myers, instrumental in helping Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. fight off takeover attempts, including Sir James Goldsmith’s “greenmail” takeover effort that nearly crippled the tiremaker, passed away July 18. Mr Myers, who was 81, served as Goodyear vice president, general counsel and secretary.

Mr Myers was part of Goodyear’s SWAT Team, an in-house group formed in the 1980s to fend off hostile takeover attempts. The SWAT Team met each morning with then Goodyear Chairman and CEO Robert Mercer. The group gained its greatest victory in 1986 when it fended off Goldsmith costly takeover attempt.

26th July 2005/by Tyrepress Editors

Cooper Names Technical Relations Manager

(Akron/Tire Review) Cooper Tire & Rubber Co has named Bradley Rump as its new manager of technical relations. In his new post, Mr Rump will be responsible for providing the company, tyre industry and government with technical expertise on tyre-related issues.

Bradley Rump joined Cooper in 1993, and has worked as product engineer in inner tube and curing bladder development and high-performance tire development, as senior product engineer in the Albany, Georgia, plant, as technical director in the Clarksdale, Missouri, plant, and most recently as manager of the materials laboratory in Findlay, Ohio.

26th July 2005/by Tyrepress Editors

Indian Manufacturers Publish Quarterly Results

(India/Rubber Asia) Leading Indian tyre maker, Apollo Tyres Ltd, reported a net profit of 166.9 million rupees (£2.2 million) for the first quarter of the current financial year, ended 30 June, up 13.6 million rupees (£180,000) compared with the same period last year.

26th July 2005/by Tyrepress Editors