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Special praise for Michelin’s track record

Michelin has been praised for giving Northern Ireland’s manufacturing sector a much-needed lift. The French company, which employs over 1,200 people at a plant in Ballymena, has a long-standing partnership with North-East Institute of Further and Higher Education. But it increased its involvement with the official opening of a new technical training centre at the Ballymena-based institute’s Farm Lodge campus. The centre, which was given the seal of approval by Employment and Learning Minister Jane Kennedy, has been established to act as a focal point for manufacturing and maintenance engineering training and practices. Specific training in engineering maintenance is delivered within the Michelin Technical Training Centre by Michelin staff, complementing the work of institute lecturers.

5th March 2004/by Tyrepress Editors

Goodyear outsourcing 100 jobs

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In its latest move to cut costs, Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. has transferred 100 human resources jobs in Akron to a sub contractor. The company has signed a 10-year agreement with Affiliated Computer Services Inc. of Dallas. All employees affected have been offered jobs at similar conditions with ACS. Some human resources functions will stay in house under the agreement, ACS will provide a wide range of human resources services, including payroll, medical benefits administration, training, recruiting and staffing for all Goodyear employees in North America.

5th February 2004/by Tyrepress Editors

Federal-Mogul Opens Technical Training Institute in Germany

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Federal-Mogul Corporation has opened a training centre and three satellite learning facilities at manufacturing locations in Germany for aftermarket employees and customers.

12th November 2003/by Tyrepress Editors

Fit4Fleet expands into Irish Republic

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Fit4Fleet, the GM-backed network of independent tyre dealers supporting company car fleets, has extended operations to provide coverage in the Republic of Ireland as part of plans to provide customers with extensive coverage throughout the British Isles.

Managing director, Dominic Bateson, believes that the move will also bring a great improvement in the service standards enjoyed by fleet drivers in the country, saying: “Most of the tyre chains that have traditionally serviced fleet drivers are concentrated around the main conurbations, such as Dublin, Cork and Waterford. But what use is that to drivers having a tyre problem out on the road, many miles away from one of those cities? Their needs have to be catered for also. To us, this was an obvious gap in coverage and one of our core objectives has been to establish a comprehensive spread of centres throughout the Republic, so that when a driver has a problem, assistance can be provided promptly.”

Fit4Fleet already has 60 centres in the Republic, with at least one in each of the country’s 26 counties, and personnel at each centre have undergone training to ensure that they are fully able to meet the standards required. This means that the network now numbers more than 900 depots in the UK and the Irish Republic.

11th August 2003/by Tyrepress Editors

Michelin Agrees to Purchase Up to 1,000 Design Licenses

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Michelin has agreed to purchase up to 1,000 licenses of SolidWorks three-dimensional computer-aided design (3D CAD) software to design new tyre manufacturing machines. Michelin expects SolidWorks to reduce its tyre manufacturing machine design time significantly throughout its global operations. It will also use SolidWorks to convert existing 2D designs to 3D and effectively communicate designs with customers, suppliers, and different departments in the company.

5th November 2002/by Tyrepress Editors

RMIF Supports Licensing The Trade

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Fred Maguire, president of the Retail Motor Industry Federation (RMIF) has openly supported government plans which may lead to garage licensing. He acknowledged that the government’s mystery shopping review of the trade had revealed serious problems which need to be addressed. In that light he was putting the support of the RMIF behind the “Good Garage Scheme”. He also stated, “We can only achieve excellence by concerted efforts and improvement in training. So, as an industry we have to take positive action in the training arena. If RMIF members set this as their priority objective, they will have nothing to fear (from licensing).”

1st November 2002/by Tyrepress Editors

Final Of The Third Dunlop Drivers Cup in South-Africa

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In the middle of February the time has finally come: altogether 30 winners of the national qualification heats that were held in Groß Dölln near Berlin in September 2000 could participate in the final of the third edition of the “Dunlop Drivers Cup”. The event was organised by the German daughter of the tyre producer in co-operation with Toyota, Meier’s Weltreisen, South African Airways and Maier Sports. After Patagonia (1999) and the Southwest of the United States the authorities had chosen South-Africa as the final place for this sporting event that aims to combine driving training and adventure/fun. The 26 males and four females had to face different driving tests of skill with passenger cars, 4×4 vehicles and quads, a kind of a four wheel motorcycle. With this event, Dunlop wants to focus attention on the topic of driving safety and to interest people in motorsports. The rally began in Durban. The 2,280 km long tour passed through the provinces of Kwazulu Natal, Eastern and Western Cape. The finish of the rally was in Cape Town. In the middle of the tour the Landcruiser offroaders had to be changed in Port Elizabeth. The competitors had to carry on with a Toyota Lexus IS 2000 Sport, shod with the Dunlop SP 9000 high performance tyre . The result of the race was in doubt up until the end, a sign of the high standard of driving skills of the qualifying teams. The next Dunlop Drivers Cup will be held in February 2002 in Australia. The scope of the 2002 qualifying sessions will be widened, including a European dimension.

30th November 2001/by Tyrepress Editors

Strategic Alliance Among Auto Aftermarket Companies

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Four companies – SKF, Tenneco Automotive, TRW and Valeo – have signed a memorandum of understanding to develop plans to enhance the services offered to their European automotive aftermarket customers. The companies will investigate opportunities to share skills and resources in the fields of training, technical support services and logistics, especially transportation. The four companies will remain independent. Any alliance between the companies resulting from the initial investigation will be subject to the necessary government approvals.

30th November 2001/by Tyrepress Editors

Tyres In Motorsport

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For companies such as Michelin, motorsport plays a very important role in the development of the tyres eventually sold to the public – even if they are very different from those used on the track. Involvement in motorsport has two obvious benefits; publicity and proving technological superiority. There are other benefits though; it offers an extreme training ground for skilled engineers, developing team skills and experience at the limits of tyre technology, and knowledge which cannot be gained elsewhere. Products developed for the race track will never find their way directly on to road-going vehicles. However, many elements of motorsport tyres have found their way into commercial tyre products – compounds, Kevlar and Aramid fibres – whilst rally events supply information about tread design, puncture resistance, rubber hardness and thermal resistance. Motorsport also offers a test bed for simulation procedures. Development is tried out on the virtual test bed and trial tested in the most extreme conditions imaginable. From a tyre manufacturer’s point of view motorsport is about getting a set of tyres to complete the race and cross the line in first place – the rest of the car is only a means to that end. The tyre must be designed to last for the duration of the race. It therefore can and will have a completely different set of design criteria from a road tyre, which has to undergo 25,000 miles and more of driver abuse, function in many weather and road conditions, and give warning when approaching their limits. The race tyre is designed to carry out a single race at maximum power for the duration of its working life. Read more about this topic in the December issues of NEUE REIFENZEITUNG or TYRES & ACCESSORIES.

7th December 2000/by Tyrepress Editors

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