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Trelleborg Appoint First Executive Vice President

Trelleborg’s board of directors has appointed chief financial officer Bo Jacobsson as first executive vice president of the Trelleborg Group. The new appointment will be effective as of 1 October, 2005 in conjunction with Peter Nilsson assuming the position of new president and CEO.

“With his broad experience of management and administration in major companies, and the in-depth knowledge he has acquired of the Trelleborg Group over many years, Bo is a vital sounding board for us all within group management,” says Peter Nilsson.

26th August 2005/by Tyrepress Editors

Trelleborg Approves Arnco Flatproofing Product

(Akron/Tire Review) Sweden’s Trelleborg Wheel Systems has approved Arnco’s SuperFlex and RePneu flatproofing fill for use in its branded agricultural tyres. Arnco European Sales Manager Andrew Elliot said the results of extensive laboratory and field testing conducted by Trelleborg were a major factor in the decision.

Commenting on the testing, Trelleborg field engineering manager Bo Lenander said: “The end-user specially pointed out the positive side of being spared the expensive tire repairs, wrecked tires and the difficult and expensive down time. It was also noted that they were let off the continuing tyre pressure checks and the otherwise constant concern for air leakage.”

9th May 2005/by Tyrepress Editors

Trelleborg’s tire distribution in Middle East

Trelleborg Wheel Systems, a business area within the Trelleborg Group, has signed a joint-venture agreement with Al Dobowi Ltd regarding the distribution of industrial and agricultural tires in the Middle East and certain parts of Africa. The new company, Trelleborg Wheel Systems Middle East Ltd will be located in Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates.

7th April 2005/by Tyrepress Editors

Trelleborg Inaugurates Wuxi, China Plant

The Trelleborg Group has inaugurated its newly constructed Chinese plant Wuxi , part of expansive Shanghai region. The Wuxi plant, which has approximately 300 employees, will produce antivibration systems and other vehicle components. The plant replaces an earlier Trelleborg facility in Wuxi and represents a doubling of production capacity. According to a company statement, the new facility has a total area of nearly 20,000 square metres and has been designed according to strictest environmental considerations. Trelleborg Automotive has also recently opened a technical centre in Shanghai.

“This is another stage in strengthening our leading position in China,” says George Caplea, president of the Trelleborg Automotive business area. “We now have a best-in-class facility with enough capacity to meet growing demand, while we are also able to offer very favourable technical-development capacity, benefiting both domestic and international customers.”

11th March 2005/by Tyrepress Editors

Trelleborg Organises Relief Efforts in Sri Lanka

The Trelleborg Group has been working since the day after Christmas to ensure that none of its employees is missing and has organised relief efforts, primarily in Sri Lanka. Trelleborg, which has approximately 22,000 employees, has operations in several of the countries affected. Reports to date indicate that none of Trelleborg’s employees are missing. The company is continuing to gather information to establish the certainty of this.

The Group has approximately 800 employees in Sri Lanka. They have been heavily affected, and some have lost their homes. Since the disaster first struck, Trelleborg has focused its relief efforts on Sri Lanka. This has involved providing food, medicine and clothing to disaster victims. Efforts to rebuild homes that were demolished are ongoing.

The company has allocated just over 2 million Krone for relief to Sri Lanka. In addition, the Group has donated 100,000 Krone each to Save the Children and the Red Cross. Individual Trelleborg employees have also donated money toward relief efforts. Trelleborg’s two plants in Sri Lanka are intact and production is under way.

5th January 2005/by Tyrepress Editors

Stable Profits as Trelleborg Appoints Nominations Committee

The Trelleborg Group has reported what it calls “stable profit trends” in its third quarter results. According to the company, profit after financial items, before goodwill amortization and for continuing operations, rose by 36 per cent.

27th October 2004/by Tyrepress Editors

Conti to sell Agricultural division

German tyre manufacturer Continental is considering selling its agricultural tyres division to the Czech Rubber Group. Negotiations on a similar deal with Trelleborg Wheel Systems fell through last year. A spokesman for Continental stated that while no details were available on any possible deal with the Czech Rubber Group, he was confident they would be successful.

21st April 2004/by Tyrepress Editors

TWS wants to become the market leader in agricultural tyres

Two years ago Trelleborg took over from Pirelli the 40 per cent share of the former commonly owned company Trelleborg Wheel Systems (TWS), which produces agricultural tyres. Now TWS aims at becoming market leader with its two brands Pirelli and Trelleborg.

A major part of this strategy is improving the name recognition of the Trelleborg brand, which up till now has been regarded as another name for bias ply tyres within the TWS-group while Pirelli covered the radial segment. In addition to that TWS is thinking about bringing another brand into the company’s portfolio. Whether this will be accomplished by the creation of a completely new brand, or by the acquisition of a known brand, has not been decided yet, Maurizio Vischi, president of TWS, told Tyres & Accessories.

The Swedish corporate group Trelleborg, named after the town where it is located, has reached a turnover of about 1.95 billion Euro and has almost 15,000 employees. As one of four Business Units, Trelleborg Wheels Systems (TWS) contributes about 330 million to the overall turnover, with 2,380 employees.

When it comes to the agricultural tyre segment, the direction of the TWS brands has been contrary. While the Pirelli brand was regarded as a synonym for the use of radial technology for agricultural tyres, the Trelleborg brand stood for bias ply forestry and implement tyres. Slowly, the boundaries seem to become blurred. For example, the new TM 2000 radial tyre for harvesters, and a new radial implement tyre, are produced with the Trelleborg logo on the sidewall.

11th August 2003/by Tyrepress Editors

Trelleborg Group Buys PSS

The Trelleborg Group has signed an agreement with Smiths Group Plc of the UK to acquire its operations in polymer-based precision seals (Polymer Sealing Solutions – PSS). PSS has annual sales of approximately SEK 5.5 billion (599.37 million Euro) and some 6,000 employees, mainly in Europe and North America. Following the acquisition, the annual sales of the Trelleborg Group are expected to total SEK 22.5 billion (2.45 bn Euro), with approximately 21,000 employees in some 40 countries. The acquired operations will form a new business area within the Trelleborg Group.

29th July 2003/by Tyrepress Editors

Trelleborg Wheel Systems UK: Agricultural Specialist

Related news: Trelleborg Wheel Systems relocates UK office Tyre Industry Welcomes Continued Use of Non-Metric Units Luxury Wheels Sells MHT Forged Products New Agri/Forestry Tyre from Trelleborg

5th November 2002/by Tyrepress Editors

Pirelli/Trelleborg – Three New Tyres

Only two years after the joint venture, the company has launched the “TM 900 High Power”, the latest generation of radial tyres ideal for equipping high power tractors over 250 HP, and those requiring high load capacity. Furthermore the company is going to launch the first Trelleborg radial implement tyre in Hanover, which is the result of the technological synergy between the two brands. At the same time the Trelleborg “TM2000” is being shown; the new generation of radial tyres for combine harvesters, created using Pirelli’s considerable agricultural experience.

28th December 2001/by Tyrepress Editors

Changes To Trelleborg Board

Chairman of Trelleborg AB Rune Andersson and Deputy Chairman Lennart Nilsson will retire at the company’s Annual General Meeting next April. Andersson was appointed President and elected to the Trelleborg board in 1983, becoming Chairman in 1990. His replacement will be current Group Senior Vice President Anders Narvinger (53).

28th December 2001/by Tyrepress Editors

New President For Trelleborg Wheel Systems

Maurizio Vischi (45) will become President of agricultural tyre manufacturer Trelleborg Wheel Systems on June 1st. Mr. Vischi is currently head of the TWS Agricultural Radial Tyres business unit, located at Tivoli in Italy, where he will continue to be based. The current President, Anders Pettersson, is leaving to take up a new position as a divisional president for the security group Gunnebo AB. TWS was formed at the end of 1998 as a joint venture between Trelleborg (which owns 60% of the jv) and Pirelli, as a specialist manufacturer of agricultural and forest tyres.

30th November 2001/by Tyrepress Editors

“Business As Usual” As Trelleborg Acquires All Of TWS

The Trelleborg group has purchased Pirelli’s 40% share of the agricultural joint venture company Trelleborg Wheel Systems. Recently-appointed President of TWS, Maurizio Vischi, said that the customer would not notice any difference in products or service and that TWS would continue to have a close relationship with Pirelli. Later on this year TWS will manufacture Trelleborg-branded radial tyres at its Tivoli factory.

30th November 2001/by Tyrepress Editors

Stronger Than Expected Profit For Trelleborg

Trelleborg, the Swedish industrial conglomerate has reported a stronger pre-tax profit than expected for the first half. Although only returning a figure of 439 million Kroner, a fall from the 789 million Kroner reported for the same period in the previous year, the profit exceeded the expected 431 million Kroner. Sales rose from 6.59 billion Kroner to 9.62 billion Kroner over the same period, and operating profit, excluding once only items, stood at 619 million Kroner, 100 million above the same period for the previous year.

30th November 2001/by Tyrepress Editors