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Rhein Chemie buys Wacker’s tyre release agents business

Rhein Chemie Rheinau GmbH has opted to expand its product range for into tyre release agents by acquiring this part of Wacker Chemie AG’s operations on 8 July 2011. The two parties agreed to keep the purchase price confidential. According to the companies, Wacker’s tyre release agents business achieved sales amounting to a mid single-digit million euro amount in 2010. The acquisition reportedly makes Rhein Chemie the world leading supplier of tyre release agents. Rhein Chemie is itself a wholly-owned subsidiary of Lanxess from Leverkusen, Germany.

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Maximising tyre performance a ‘three-cornered hat’

To state the obvious, good OTR/EM tyres don’t come cheap and immediate availability of the right product has been less than certain in the last five or six years. Therefore it only makes economic sense to treat tyres as an investment and to maximise this investment accordingly. Speaking recently with Tyres & Accessories, Jock Aitken, Michelin’s technical manager for Earthmover and Industrial Products, stressed the golden rule for OTR sector end-users wishing to do this. It is simply, he stated, a matter of fitting the correct tyre at the correct pressure upon the correct application.

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British Grand Prix a “second home race” for F1 supplier Pirelli

Pirelli returns to Formula One in the United Kingdom this week for what the company says is a second home Grand Prix this season, after the Italian Grand Prix, since the company employs around 50 at its logistics and distribution facility at Didcot, 45 minutes from Silverstone by car. The 12 engineers assigned to F1’s teams and the 19 tyre fitters whose job it is to put the tyres on the rims are based there too, alongside its 12 carbon black trucks: two service trucks, seven tyre transporters, and three trucks for the hospitality unit.

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Tyrexpo India 2011 debuts in Chennai

The inaugural staging of Tyrexpo India 2011 in Chennai reportedly got off to a strong start, according to the exhibition’s organisers. The show was opened by guest of honour Sudarsan Varadaraj, managing Director of Elgi Rubber Company. He welcomed the show to India saying that the timing was right for an event that showcased the best of India’s emerging tyre and equipment aftermarket. He also pointed to a changing mind-set among domestic buyers, away from a purely price-led approach to one that was increasingly sophisticated and recognised the importance of overall value and long-term benefit.

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SRT sells Saransk rubber products plant

Sibur – Russian Tyres reports that in June it finalised a deal on the sale of its share in the ‘OJSC Saransk Plant Rezinotekhnika’ operation. The decision to sell its 83.11 per cent stake in the rubber products manufacturer (who reportedly holds an eight per cent share of Russia’s rubber products market) to CSC Kurskrezinotekhnika, a manufacturer of conveyor belts, hoses and other technical rubber goods, was made in line with Sibur – Russian Tyres’ strategic decision to focus on tyre manufacture. The value of the transaction was not disclosed.

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Korean tyre labelling “fits perfectly to the Lanxess strategy”

South Korea’s reported June 15 announcement regarding the introduction of voluntary tyre labelling before the end of this year and mandatory labelling a year later is being billed by Lanxess as a “huge success” for its global public affairs strategy. The German specialty chemicals firm shares that South Korea’s “Ministry of Knowledge Economy” has announced the commencement of a formal process for the implementation of a tyre labelling in the country with a “pre-notification” note. According to Lanxess the Korean government body plans to begin voluntary tyre labelling in November 2011 and introduce mandatory labelling in November 2012 – the month the EU tyre label becomes mandatory.

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Goodyear Dunlop makes further inroads into construction, port sectors

Motivated by the positive response it received in 2010, on June 22 and 23 Goodyear Dunlop Tyres UK was back at Vertikal Days, the country’s only dedicated event for the lifting industry. On the company’s stand at the Merseyside-based show was the Dunlop SP ER50 crane tyre – a product Goodyear Dunlop says has taken off since last year’s show.

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Elgi Rubber’s solutions for the industry

At Autopromotec the chairman and managing director, Sudarsan Varadaraj told T&A: "Elgi’s objective is to provide solutions for the rubber industry. This embraces raw materials including reclaimed rubber, compounds, etc.; rubber products for repair solutions to tyres, tubes, conveyor belts etc.; repair tools and accessories for brazed abrasive tools, high speed cutters, etc.; and rubber processing machinery used in retreading equipment, presses, etc."

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Toyo enters into railway components JV

Last year, sales of tyres accounted for just under three quarter of Toyo Tire & Rubber’s total net sales. The remainder came from a portfolio of other rubber and chemical products. Included within this non-tyre business is the manufacture of anti-vibration rubber components for railway vehicles; Toyo has now furthered its activities in this area by entering into a joint venture arrangement with Chinese firm Wuxi Meifeng Rubber Products Manufacturing Co., Ltd. On July 5 the two firms signed an agreement to form a new company, “Wuxi Toyo Meifeng Rubber Products Manufacturing Co., Ltd.” This new entity is to be based in Wuxi City, Jiangsu Province, China, and will manufacture and distribute air springs and anti-vibration rubber for railway vehicles. Toyo has invested 30,484 million yen (£234.6 million) in the venture, giving the company a 51 per cent shareholding.

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Lanxess lifts synthetic rubber prices

As of July 1 the per tonne price for Lanxess’s Perbunan and Krynac synthetic rubber ranges and its Baymod and Nanoprene products increased by 150 euros. The given reason for this price adjustment is a rise in manufacturing costs.

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Bridgestone to raise North America commercial tyre prices

Price increases averaging 11 per cent are to be implemented on a number of Bridgestone company products in the US and Canada. The new prices take effect August 1 and apply to Bridgestone and Firestone brand truck and bus tyres, Bandag brand retreads and retreading materials, and Bridgestone, Firestone and Continuum OTR tyre products and retread rubber.

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Vee Rubber producing more than 25 million tyres

Vee Rubber has had a long period of sustained growth in the last two decades, and is now the employer of over 4,000 at its three large manufacturing facilities on the outskirts of Bangkok. Their combined production now exceeds 25 million tyres per annum, about half of which is now exported through branch offices throughout Asia, Western Europe, USA, Canada and Latin America.

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Toyo’s Shandong Silverstone acquisition finalised

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Toyo Tire & Rubber’s acquisition of Chinese tyre maker Shandong Silverstone Luhe Rubber & Tyre, which was first announced on April 12, has now been finalised. The Japanese manufacturer reports the acquisition of 75 per cent equity in Shandong Silverstone has now been completed and the Shandong Province Industrial and Commercial Bureau has issued a business permit. Toyo’s paid in capital stands at RMB 330,138,000 (£31.8 milliion).

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Keyuan, Hangzhou Zhongce to collaborate on SSBR development

Ningbo, China-based petrochemical manufacturer Keyuan Petrochemicals reports entering into an agreement with the Hangzhou Zhongce Rubber Company to jointly develop commercial applications for Solution Polymerisation Styrene Butadiene Rubber (SSBR). The formal agreement was signed on June 28 and under its terms researchers from both companies will work together on SSBR projects over the coming few years. Both firms will share the rights to products and technologies developed from this cooperation. Keyuan Petrochemicals states that any successfully developed SSBR will be manufactured within the Styrene-Butadiene-Styrene (SBS) facility it is currently building. This Ningbo, Zhejiang Province plant is expected to be complete at the end of 2011.

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Hamashima clarifies MotoGP tyre issues at Dutch TT

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The assistant to director at Bridgestone’s Motorsport Tyre Development Division Hirohide Hamashima has released a statement discussing events at the Dutch TT last weekend. The event was lively from a tyre point of view, with riders disagreeing over whether to have the manufacturer supply new rear slicks before the Saturday practice and race – in the end they stuck to the original tyres – and cold conditions creating problems as riders chose to run a softer compound that was more susceptible to graining. Track temperatures were 29 degrees Celsius cooler than in 2010, while rain interrupted running every day and left the circuit very greasy.

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