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Michelin commended at Prince Michael road safety event

Michelin’s contribution to raising awareness of road safety was recognised yesterday at a lunch held in London, to celebrate the company winning the Prince Michael International Road Safety Award. The tyre maker was presented with the award in May for its on-going commitment to road safety. The lunch is held annually to commend award winners and Michelin joins other frontrunners and government ministers at the event, which was hosted by HRH Prince Michael of Kent GCVO.

14th December 2012/by Tyrepress Editors

With you through every turn – Sailun launches new strapline

A new strapline will soon represent Sailun Tyres. The phrase the company will introduce is “with you through every turn”, a strapline developed following a series of North American research exercises involving consumers, dealers, distributors and competitors.

13th December 2012/by Tyrepress Editors

IGA launches free websites for members

"The Independent Garage Association (IGA) has now launched its website building service to its members, helping to bring additional business into their workshops and an opportunity to market their garage to the modern consumer" said Stuart James, RMI IGA Director.

19th November 2012/by Tyrepress Editors

Tructyre introduces Cam Systems’ CV tyre management system

Tructyre Fleet Management has introduced Cam Systems’ panintelligence fleet tyre management system following the completion of a two-month pilot. Using the new system the truck tyre service specialist introduced a dynamic, live data feed aligned to the organisation’s KPIs into its head office, improving functionality and visibility while saving administration time.

8th November 2012/by Tyrepress Editors

Firestone boosting farming efficiency at EIMA

Firestone is presenting its latest agricultural tyre innovations at the EIMA 2012 agricultural fair in Bologna between 7-11 November. The brand says its 201sqm stand (Hall 36, A11) presents the three pillars of Firestone’s business approach to the agricultural industry: its tyre innovations, Agri Point, the Europewide network of agricultural tyre service professionals, and E-tools to “make the farmer’s life easier”, such as its new tyre pressure smart-phone application.

7th November 2012/by Tyrepress Editors

Snap-on offers component testing TechEd seminar

Snap-on Diagnostics has announced the ninth in its series of TechEd seminars – ‘Guide to Component Testing’. According to the company, the first eight of these seminars attracted “well over 30,000 paying attendees” during the past six years.

6th November 2012/by Tyrepress Editors

Trelleborg launches 3 apps for farming professionals

Trelleborg is launching three apps aimed to help farming professionals and tyre specialists get the most out of their agricultural and forestry tyres. According to the company, Trelleborg’s new Tire Book and Tire iBrochure apps are specially designed for tyre and machinery dealers. In addition, there is the Trelleborg Load Calculator app, which is designed to calculate load per axle according to a tractor’s configuration. The latest version of this includes the ability to recommend the optimum pressure for the selected application.

6th November 2012/by Tyrepress Editors

IGA launches free websites for members

"The Independent Garage Association (IGA) has now launched its website building service to its members, helping to bring additional business into their workshops and an opportunity to market their garage to the modern consumer" said Stuart James, RMI IGA Director.

30th October 2012/by Tyrepress Editors

Atlas Copco on Forbes innovation list

Atlas Copco has been included on a list of the world’s 100 most innovative companies, published by business magazine Forbes.

3rd October 2012/by Tyrepress Editors

Independent Garage Association offers websites

The Independent Garage Association (IGA) is offering to help its members set up websites in order to increase trade. Stuart James, RMI IGA Director, explained: "Offering our members a website is helping to bring additional business into their workshops and is an opportunity to market their garage to the modern consumer."

A recent IGA survey discovered that thousands of garages are missing out on one of the most effective, efficient and up-to-date ways of promoting their business due to not having a website.

4th September 2012/by Tyrepress Editors

Butts releases new MOT tool

Now that its part of the MOT to fail cars that have warning lamps showing garages stand to gain extra work by not only diagnosing the problem but fixing it. That’s why Butts of Bawtry have released a new tool designed specifically for this task – the MOTpro.

5th July 2012/by Tyrepress Editors

Kraiburg reports record sales of 108 million euros in 2011

Rubber and retreading materials manufacturer Kraiburg Austria posted sales of over 108 million euros in 2011, the highest sales figures in the 50 years since the company’s foundation. According to the Kraiburg, the retreading business accounted for a good 65 per cent of the sales. As a result Kraiburg Austria has returned to pre-crisis levels it was achieving in 2008.

9th May 2012/by Tyrepress Editors

B&J Rocket launching its Quality campaign at Reifen 2012

The Reifen 2012 show gets underway in just over a month’s time, and B&J Rocket will be there. The Switzerland-based firm reports that it will present its new hallmark ‘Quality Plus’ to trade visitors from all over the world during the exhibition. The programme was initiated by Andreas Müller, managing director of B&J Rocket, to demonstrate to partners and customers how the company achieves and maintains quality at the highest level. This process begins with the careful selection of raw materials and its suppliers.

4th May 2012/by Tyrepress Editors

Many UK motorists stumped by a flat, shares Kwik-Fit

After reading the facts unearthed by the latest Kwik Fit survey, you’d be forgiven for wishing some British motorists stuck to public transport. The study of 2,027 adults carried out for the fast fit network shows that four per cent of respondents – a proportion representing 1.3 million British motorists – don’t even know if their vehicle has a spare wheel. Three per cent – think a million motorists – confessed to not having any provision whatsoever for a flat tyre.

30th April 2012/by Tyrepress Editors

Tech Europe Returns To Reifen

Tyre repair material and wheel service solution producer Tech Europe is a long-term supporter of the Reifen exhibition, and returns to Essen this year to exhibit the latest products and services in its Tech and Truflex/Pang ranges. As the European arm of Tech International, a supplier of over 5,000 products into 110 countries worldwide, Tech Europe will be presenting its complete range of Tech tyre repair material, Truflex/Pang tyre repair material, tools and accessories, balance weights and valves, and, most significantly this year, introducing its new offering of TPMS solutions.

27th April 2012/by Tyrepress Editors