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Bridgestone Designs Tire for Hummer HX Concept

Bridgestone/Firestone North American Tire, in cooperation with General Motors, has designed a Dueler concept tyre for the Hummer HX concept sport utility truck, introduced by GM at the 2008 North American International Auto Show.

The 35-inch tall tyres, engineered specifically for the HX, are mounted to the concept car’s 20-inch rims and feature a striking, deep-skid directional tread pattern with large, stiff lugs that provide excellent traction on a variety of driving surfaces. The tread lugs, stretching halfway down the sidewall, offer extra grip in deep sand, snow and mud and protect the tyre from punctures during off-road activities, such as rock crawling, BFNAT said.

15th January 2008/by Tyrepress Editors

Conti Renews Uniroyal UK Distribution Agreement

The partnership established in 2000 between Continental Tyre Group (CTG) and Uniroyal Truck Tyres UK, granting exclusive rights to distribute Uniroyal brand truck tyres throughout the UK & Ireland, has been extended for a further five years.

With CTG’s technical expertise acting as a strong foundation, the Uniroyal brand has become established and recognised as a durable, competitively priced tyre range featuring products designed to suit a wide variety of applications. This reputation has allowed Uniroyal Truck Tyres UK, a subsidiary of national tyre wholesaler Kings Road Tyres (KRT) to build a strong following for the brand in the commercial vehicle sector.

11th January 2008/by Tyrepress Editors

Techking Tires Expands its OTR Line-up

When visiting tyre shows in Asia or elsewhere in the world OTR tyres often dominate the the show landscape, giving the impression that almost every other manufacturer in the world is acting as an OTR tyre specialist and hoping to get a share of the grossly under-supplied market segment.

One such company that has managed to establish an intensive business relation with plenty of well-known players and even OEMs, within a very short period of time, is Techking Tires. And this separates Techking from some of the market “vagabonds” from the Far East that are here today and gone tomorrow and that change their focal business points as often as the market demands it. The number of different products and the number of available sizes which have been brought onto the market within just two years since the company started its business is impressive, to say the least. “I love the challenge,” says the founder of Techking Tires, Tech Wang, in an interview with Tyres & Accessories. The company hopes to reach another manufacturing milestone by the summer of 2008, when it is scheduled to launch 49 and even 51 OTR sizes.

9th January 2008/by Tyrepress Editors

Pirelli Now Producing Full Line-up in China

Currently nine of the world’s 10 largest tyre manufacturers have their own production bases in China. Among those companies that have recently chosen to venture into China is Pirelli. The Italian corporation has been operating a truck tyre production facility in China since the summer of 2005 before opening a new PCR tyre factory very recently in November 2007. At this stage Pirelli is still a relatively small player in the Chinese tyre market, but it is this context that will enable the company to achieve an above average growth rate, says Luca Cico in an interview with Tyres & Accessories. now that it has managed to fulfil the demands of the Chinese tyre market with two production sites in operation.

8th January 2008/by Tyrepress Editors

First Reifen China Attracts Over 5800 Visitors

The organisers of the first Reifen China exhibition have published visitor attendance and exhibitor numbers from the inaugural “Asian Essen Show.” Held in parallel with Tyres & Rubber Tech China, a total of 5812 visitors from 41 countries passed through the show between 14 and 16 November. Of these, 16 per cent were described as overseas visitors. 88 exhibitors from 13 nations took stands in Shanghai, with the vast majority (68 per cent) directly from the tyre, casing and tube business. 16 per cent of exhibits represented press, publishing and associations; while 4 per cent originated from the equipment and vulcanisation sectors.

8th January 2008/by Tyrepress Editors

Continental to Relaunch ContiNetwork

Product News, UK News

When Tyres & Accessories recently attended Continental’s annual media briefing, we expected to hear details of the previous year’s market statistics and product trends. However T&A got more than we bargained for when Continental UK commercial tyre business director, Arthur Gregg, revealed that the company is relaunching its ContiNetwork commercial vehicle retail business in February and will spend the next few years completely refreshing its product line-up.

Full details will be published when the official relaunch takes place in February, but here is a rough outline: Continental are aiming to give their dealers a more equitable system, whereby each company will have increased freedom to choose how much fleet business they commit to. Executives recognise that large amounts of fleet business suits some dealers better than others. In addition, Continental will unveil a new “dealer charter” (not a contract), which aims to improve two-way communications. In a related move T&A learnt that a new fleet manager for the Northern region will join the company this month.

8th January 2008/by Tyrepress Editors

Goodyear Prices to Rise in North America

Goodyear Tire & Rubber intends to increase prices for its passenger car and light truck tyres by as much as seven per cent in North America. The manufacturer has notified retailers that prices would increase for orders on or after February 1 due to continued raw material, transportation and other cost rises.

7th January 2008/by Tyrepress Editors

Shandong Taishan to Release 57-inch Size

Shandong Taishan Tyre Co., Ltd. Has published details of five new OTR tyre sizes the company plans to launch in April. At the beginning of the second quarter, the manufacturer will launch giant OTR products in enormous 2700 R49, 4000 R57, 3300 R51, 45/65 R45 35/65 R33 sizes. Company representatives told Tyres & Accessories that the company focuses on building long term partnerships, especially in the OTR segment. As a result Shandong Taishan now hasstable cooperative relations with the clients from Canada, South Africa, Mexico, Greece and Australia.

4th January 2008/by Tyrepress Editors

Cooper to Increase Prices

(Tire Review/Akron) Cooper Tire & Rubber Co. announced a price increase of up to 5%, which will vary between product lines for all customers, effective February 1, 2008. The increase will cover passenger and light truck tyres.

18th December 2007/by Tyrepress Editors

Crumb Rubber Retreads Compare Well With Standard

A WRAP-funded project has published research which claims to demonstrate that crumb rubber from waste tyres can be added to truck and OTR tyres in much higher rates than was previously thought. According to the report, tyres using a compound that was up to 40 per cent crumb rubber from tyres “suffered no reduction in durability or performance when compared to the industry standard.” Truck tyres fitted to dual-drive axle tipper lorries and earthmover tyres, with a diameter of 1.6 metres were used in the trial.

11th December 2007/by Tyrepress Editors

Tunneller Underestimated His Prize

(Tire Review/Akron) A burglar who tunnelled into a Coquille, Oregon, tyre shop over the weekend really didn’t do his homework. The two-foot wide tunnel was big enough for the burglar himself but too small to accommodate his targeted booty – medium truck tyres stored in the back storage room of Steele’s Universal Tire & Wheel Inc. Local police think the break-in is related to a similar incident at a local restaurant that was discovered earlier. No arrests have been made.

11th December 2007/by Tyrepress Editors

Bridgestone Wins 2-Year Dawsongroup Contract

Dawsongroup plc has awarded Bridgestone UK a new two-year tyre contract that runs until January 2010. Under the arrangement Bridgestone UK will supply OE, new replacement and retreaded truck tyres. Greg Ward, Bridgestone UK Commercial Director, said: “We are really pleased to have been awarded this contract. Over the last 12 months we have worked very hard to understand every aspect of their business and fleet requirements. We can build on this foundation and further develop our relationship with the Dawsongroup plc.”

7th December 2007/by Tyrepress Editors

Goodyear Introduces New US Light Commercial Tyre Range

Goodyear has introduced several commercial-duty light truck tyres featuring what the manufacture calls ‘Armor Max Technology’; the new tyres have been designed with steel-reinforced sidewalls and steel belts, providing long mileage and casings for multiple retreads, which help drive down overall life-cycle costs and deliver value to fleets. Four new load-range E tire models have been developed: Unisteel G949 RSA and G947 RSS all-position tyres and Unisteel G933 RSD and G971 drive tyres for heavy pickups, delivery vans and trucks up to 14,000 pounds gross vehicle weight (Class 3). A complete line of retreads also is available for use with Armor Max tyres.

6th December 2007/by Tyrepress Editors

Tyre Exports Increase, Imports Double in India

Despite the increasing strength of the rupee tyre manufacturers in India are still enjoying export growth, reports the Hindu Business Line. According to figures presented in the Indian business daily, exports increased by 19.2 per cent in the current financial year, with approximately 3.1 million units exported during the period. During the same months of the previous fiscal year total exports were in the vicinity of 2.6 million units.

“Exports in 2006-07 had shown a decline, as the demand in the domestic industry was healthy,” said Apollo Tyres COO and joint managing director Neeraj Kanwar. “With serving the domestic industry being a priority, exports seem to have slowed down. But now the industry has added capacity to increase its competitiveness, which would make the export growth come back to earlier levels. We expect exports to remain buoyant.”

6th December 2007/by Tyrepress Editors

Continental Sets Canadian Price Hike

(Tire Review/Akron) Continental Tire Canada Inc. has announced an 8 per cent price increase on all Continental, General and associate brand passenger and light truck tyres. Specific increases will vary by market line and/or size. The replacement market increase takes effect January 1, 2008.

5th December 2007/by Tyrepress Editors