Giti Tire has announced the appointment of former Bridgestone employee Fabio Pecci-Boriani to the newly created position of senior product marketing manager across its European operation. Pecci-Boriani has a brief to develop the manufacturer’s Passenger Car and Light Truck tyre portfolios throughout Europe. Formerly pricing manager at Volvo, Pecci-Boriani will report directly to Richard Lyons, […]
On 14 February 2014 Brian Smith unofficially broke the production car land speed record with a 270.49mph run on Florida’s Space Shuttle landing runway, according to Top Gear magazine. Before now the fastest was the Bugatti Veyron Super Sport, which managed 269.86mph on the Ehra-Lessien test track in 2010.
Giti Tire has promoted Matthew Mardle to its senior management team, taking up the newly created position of European supply chain manager. Mardle will be responsible for product life cycle management, forecasting and planning for GT Radial, Primewell and Runway tyres across passenger car, SUV and light truck (PCR) and commercial truck and bus (TBR) operations.
Giti Tire has moved its UK headquarters to new 3,000 square foot offices in Northwich, Cheshire in a move the company described as preparation for “British and pan-European expansion”. According to company, representatives, the new facility will house the passenger car, SUV and light truck (PCR) and commercial truck and bus (TBR) operations across the three main brands, GT Radial, Primewell and Runway.
Michelin’s LMP1 tyres, which helped Audi’s hybrid car to victory in the 90th Le Mans 24 hour race, have been put to record-breaking use by Lord Drayson. Drayson Racing Technologies’ B12 69/EV electric Le Mans Prototype set a new electric land speed record, smashing the previous 40 year-old 175mph record by 29.2mph. The record-breaking run took place at Elvington Airfield near York on the evening of 25 June, 2013.
Equipment manufacturer and supplier Snap-on Incorporated has acquired Challenger Lifts for approximately US$38 million in cash. Reporting the purchase, Snap-on chairman and chief executive officer Nick Pinchuk stated “Challenger is an important addition to our Repair Systems & Information Group. The Challenger vehicle lift product line complements and increases Snap-on’s existing undercar equipment offering, broadening our established capabilities in serving vehicle repair facilities. We believe this acquisition will further Snap-on’s progress along its strategic and coherent growth runway of expanding with repair shop owners and managers. We look forward to welcoming Challenger associates to the Snap-on family.”
Patrick McLoughlin has been named Transport Secretary, replacing Justine Greening. As Conservative MP for Derbyshire Dales, McLoughlin was formerly chief whip and parliamentary secretary to the treasury.
GiTi Tire has appointed Gillian MacRae as finance controller – Europe. The company says that the McRae’s appointment will strengthen its management team. She will be responsible for the planning, monitoring and management of company business plans, with an initial focus on UK and German markets, across all four main brands: GT Radial, Primewell, Runway and Dextero.
The latest Corghi products on the UK market include the Exact Black Tech X 3D wheel aligner series and the Four Columns (ERCO4004 and ERCO5004) and Two Columns (ERCO H4002 and ERCO H5002) lift series. An extensive range of Corghi products have been distributed exclusively in the UK for over 40 years by Apaseal, which offers full training, installation and technical service back-up. In the past three years Apaseal says it has increased investment throughout its resources and specialised workforce that, together with Corghi’s products, has permitted a quick and constant increase in wheel aligner sales.
The failure to address a tyre-related safety weak spot may end up costing the ‘father of the Concorde’ a suspended prison sentence. Henri Perrier, now 80 years old, directed the Concorde programme at Aerospatiale from 1978 to 1994. French proescutors have accused him of ignoring warning signs from a string of incidents involving Concorde airliners before the crash near Paris in July 2000.
Heathrow’s northern runway was forced to close for 20 minutes on 15 May after an arriving Ethiopian Airlines aircraft burst a tyre during landing. “The aircraft made a routine safe landing, exited the runway and passengers disembarked,” a Heathrow airport spokesperson told BBC News.
Meanwhile, in an unrelated incident, two tyres fitted to a Qantas 737-800 blew during take-off for a flight from Sydney to Canberra. None of the 92 passengers on board was hurt and they were all rebooked on to later flights. “The flight crew acted in accordance with their training,” said a Qantas spokeswoman.
Once again, Dutch tyre wholesaler De Klok Banden will be present at the Reifen 2006 exhibition in Essen. De Klok handles all of the well-known, premium tyre brands and also has a number of exclusive agencies for imported brands.
Included in the names in the De Klok portfolio are Nokian, Nankang (for which De Klok is the exclusive supplier for Germany and the Benelux countries), Delfin, GT Radial (for the Benelux countries) and Runway; a brand manufactured in China.
A report by French air accident investigators reveals that Concorde suffered damaged fuel tanks caused by tyre blowouts on no fewer than six occasions before the fatal crash in Paris last summer. The report also states that, since Concorde began flying in 1976, there have been 57 incidents of tyres bursting on the runway.
Goodyear can at last draw a deep breath, at least for the time being. The provisional results of the investigating authorities suggest that it was debris on the runway which destroyed the tyre, thus setting off the tragic chain of events which occurred on take-off.
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