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Michelin tyre clocks 300,000th km, fifth year on Scottish coach

South Lanarkshire’s Whitelaws Coaches has reported that a set of Michelin XDN 2 Grip drive axle tyres have reached their 300,000th kilometre and fifth anniversary. The XDN 2 Grip tyres were fitted as original equipment to a 49-seat Sunsundegui Sideral in 2006 and are still going strong today, with 10mm of tread remaining. Michelin says the set will cover a further 100,000km before needing to be regrooved. Whitelaws director George Whitelaw has now fitted the drive axle tyre across his 42-strong fleet in place of the former Michelin XDA 4 fitment, saying: “We are amazed by the performance of the XDN2 Grip tyres. This set could well be seven years old before they need replacing. When a vehicle is doing long-distance, trans-European journeys, it’s quite remarkable for a tyre to last this long before even needing to be regrooved.”

23rd June 2011/by Tyrepress Editors

Government "misleading public on safety threat of longer lorries"

Campaign groups are warning that Government plans to allow longer lorries on UK roads could lead to more road deaths and put small hauliers out of business. But not everyone agrees. Campaign for Better Transport and Freight on Rail – backed by Campaign to Protect Rural England, CTC – the national cyclists' organisation, Friends of the Earth, Living Streets, RoadPeace and Sustrans – warn that contrary to Government claims, plans to increase lorry lengths could lead to six extra road deaths a year, result in more road congestion and lose small and medium sized hauliers up to £1.8 billion over five years. On the other side of the argument, the Freight Transport Association has called on the Government to take a level headed view on longer semi-trailers and asked it not be swayed by "emotive language and unsubstantiated claims" by stakeholders wanting to derail the proposals.

23rd June 2011/by Tyrepress Editors

Conti merger an opportunity to rectify past mistakes

The longest-serving Continental AG board member, Hans-Joachim Nikolin (55), leaves the company’s Executive Board at the end of July and its youngest member, Nikolai Setzer (40), will take over a combined tyre business and thus lead the company’s most successful and currently highest turnover-generating division. The company’s business unit structure has decreased at a management level to adapt with future requirements and now benefits the previously independently-led truck tyre division, which in many past years failed to meet expectations and suffered under the griping of Nikolin’s fellow board members Wennemer and Hippe. During that time, numerous threats were allegedly made to sell off the entire commercial vehicle tyre division should it prove unable to rapidly achieve an EBIT margin of or near double figures. Such threats placed Dr. Hans-Joachim in a very helpless position as yield-hungry analysts could have all too easily interpreted them as promises.

16th June 2011/by Tyrepress Editors

Treadsetters mentioned in HSBC annual report

Remember how Telford-based tyre wholesale operation Treadsetters beat over 1600 other businesses to the finals of HSBC’s business thinking awards at the end of last year? The firm were regional winners securing a prize of £115,000 reaching the last 18 in the finals in Hong Kong. They may not have won the final overall, but making it to the short list of just 17 companies for the bank’s “International Insights” event in Hong Kong on 5 December is said to have opened up a number of other opportunities. Getting more than a page of coverage in the once of the world’s best-known banks’ annual report isn’t a bad thing either.

Treadsetters features in a full-page photo collage on page 14 of HSBC’s annual report with a short text describing the firm as an example of “creating export opportunities” on the following page. “The journey that [Treadsetters’] tyres make exemplifies the connections that criss-cross the global economy.”

14th June 2011/by Tyrepress Editors

Yokohama introduces 8% US commercial tyre price hike

Yokohama Tire Corporation has announced a price increase of an average of 8 per cent on all of its light and medium commercial truck tyres sold in the USA from 1 July. Rick Phillips, Yokohama director of commercial sales, said that in addition to rising raw materials costs “other factors also influenced the increase, such as the costs associated with manufacturing and transportation, which continue to escalate.”

14th June 2011/by Tyrepress Editors

Hankook recalls truck tyres in China

Recently Kumho announced the recall of more than 300,000 tyres in China; now it is Hankook Tire’s turn, albeit on a far smaller scale. The Korean manufacturer has recalled 246 Chinese manufactured tyres after national safety authority, the General Administration of Quality Supervision, discovered a fault on June 10. It was found that due to a design or manufacturing fault steel cord protruded through the seams of a number of inspected tyres – a defect that increases the risk of rupturing.

14th June 2011/by Tyrepress Editors

Toyo USA increases commercial tyre prices 9% from 5 July

Toyo Tire USA Corp has announced the increase of its dealer base price list on commercial truck tyres by an average of nine per cent. “While Toyo Tires is determined to keep prices to a minimum, the continued increases in raw material costs make it necessary for us to raise our prices at this time,” said John Hagan, senior director of sales.

13th June 2011/by Tyrepress Editors

Groundbreaking held for Hankook plant no. 7

Less than a month after breaking ground on its Liang Jiang Xin Qu factory in China’s Chongqing region, Hankook Tire has held a groundbreaking ceremony for a new plant in Indonesia. This facility, in Lippo Cikarang, Bekasi, West Java, will become the Korean tyre maker’s seventh global plant. Four production facilities on a 60 hectare site will cater to North American and Middle East export markets and serve as a regional business hub for the emerging Asian market.

10th June 2011/by Tyrepress Editors

UK launch for Michelin X MultiWay 3D

Michelin reports the recent UK release of its latest truck tyre, the X MultiWay 3D, a product that gets its name from the three-dimensional nature of its tread sipes. These namesake sipes, incidentally, are designed to generate grip in difficult climatic conditions. Michelin says it is primarily aiming the tyre at ‘regional’ hauliers – those operating vehicles which typically spend around 60 per cent of time on local roads and 40 per cent on dual carriageways and motorways.

8th June 2011/by Tyrepress Editors

Cooper consigns Dean brand to history

Cooper Tire & Rubber Co. is ending its Dean associate brand in North America, which it has produced since buying the former Dean Tire & Rubber Co. back in 1994. The Findlay, Ohio, tyre maker will focus its attention on its core Cooper, Mastercraft and Starfire brands. Cooper also produces and sells Avon motorcycle tyres, Mickey Thompson performance and off-road light truck tyres, and Roadmaster medium truck radials. Tire Review

8th June 2011/by Tyrepress Editors

CargoXbib order record broken with increased flotation tyre popularity

Farmers and contractors are specifying flotation tyres on increasing numbers of new-build agricultural trailers and Lincolnshire-based trailer manufacturer Bailey Trailers says it has responded to this market demand with the single largest order for Michelin’s CargoXbib tyres ever placed in the UK. A total of 1,100 CargoXbib tyres are being delivered to its Sleaford factory in 2011, a figure that nearly doubles the 600 supplied last year. Michelin explains the specialist tyres and wheels offer increased ground protection and lower rolling resistance compared with remould truck tyres.

6th June 2011/by Tyrepress Editors

GITI aiming for 10% market share

Company News, UK News

GITI Tire has appointed Richard Lyons to the position of general manager Europe as part of a series of moves that sees the firm implement a new organisational structure for its European operations. The structure, which took effect 1 May 2011, has been established following the departure of Michael Andre in March. Andre previously held the role of marketing director for passenger car tyres Europe and was managing director of the company’s Giti Tire Germany GmbH Deutschland subsidiary. Hervé Richert, GITI’s executive director, international sales and marketing described the new-look team a “direct consequence of GITI Tire Europe’s growth of business over recent years.” Writing in a statement detailing the reshuffle, he explained that it also follows the company’s “clearly defined strategy of building on strong relationships with its partners and customers with a focus on key markets in Europe and emerging markets” such as CIS and Russia.

31st May 2011/by Tyrepress Editors

June 1 price rise for Toyo’s US market consumer tyres

Dealer base prices for Toyo passenger car and light truck tyres will increase by an average of eight per cent in the US on June 1. Announcing the price revision, Toyo Tire USA senior director of sales John Hagan stated “Toyo Tires is committed to providing excellent product quality while keeping prices to a minimum; however the continued increases in raw material costs make it necessary for us to raise our prices at this time.”

25th May 2011/by Tyrepress Editors

Truck tyre of the future? Michelin reveals five tonne trailer tyre

We've heard of the super-single category of truck tyres that are designed to reduce rolling resistance and increase fuel economy by replacing twin tyre fitments with a single, wider tyre. But what about a truck tyre that can carry so much more load than standard products that a trailer fitted with these can cancel out the need for an entire axle? Alongside the numerous passenger car tyre developments Tyres & Accessories reported on yesterday, Michelin also unveiled what we might tentatively call a five tonne truck tyre – a product that has the potential to be revolutionary in the truck market.

20th May 2011/by Tyrepress Editors

Michelin India to supply own market needs by 2015

By 2015, Michelin aims to supply 100 per cent of its truck and bus tyre market in India from its plant currently under construction near Chennai. The facility, being built on a 300-acre site in Thervoy Kandigai, is scheduled to enter production next year with an initial annual capacity of 300,000 truck and bus tyres.

20th May 2011/by Tyrepress Editors