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Across the Atlantic they are called tires, while over here we use a “Y” and say tyres. This tag provides the latest tyre business news emanating from the United States of America (USA), whichever way you spell it.

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Time honours Goodyear Air Maintenance Technology as 2012 'Best Invention'

The USA's Time Magazine has awarded The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company’s Air Maintenance Technology (AMT) with the title of one of its "Best Inventions of the Year 2012”. AMT is designed to help drivers maintain optimal tyre pressure, helping to increase the longevity of the tread and the fuel efficiency of the vehicle. All of AMT's components, including a miniaturised pump, will be fully contained within the tyre. Time's technology editors listed AMT alongside the Tesla Model S electric car amongst others as one the year’s 25 “most important innovations.”

13th November 2012/by Tyrepress Editors

TGI supports Movember 2012

In the USA, Tire Group International has joined the Movember 2012 movement and is challenging all men team members, associates and customers to grow their Mo’s (moustaches) for the month of November to raise awareness and funds for men’s health issues, specially prostate and testicular cancer initiatives.

12th November 2012/by Tyrepress Editors

Michelin appoints UK, RoI commercial director truck and bus

Michelin has appointed Guy Heywood as commercial director of its truck and bus operations in the UK and Republic of Ireland. Heywood, 45, has been with the company for more than 14 years, having served the last two years as national sales manager of its commercial vehicle tyre operations. Heywood also spent four years as production manager at the Stoke-on-Trent-based Remix plant. Reporting to Marc de Bellescize, sales director for Michelin’s European Truck Tyre Division, Heywood replaces Bill Schafer, who is returning to the USA to take up a position within the Michelin group there.

5th November 2012/by Tyrepress Editors

Hertz in US tyre recycling initiative

In the USA, rental car company Hertz has announced a new initiative, in partnership with Liberty Tyre Recycling, that will recycle up to 160,000 tyres annually. This is part of Hertz's promise to implement a zero-landfill policy for the tyres the company uses each year.

According to Hertz, most of the tyres the company and Liberty Tyre Recycling will reprocess go towards several different uses. Many will end up shredded and converted into rubber mulch, which is ideal for public spaces because it is non-allergenic, will not wash away during rain, has no effect on plants, pets or children, and finally, resists insect, mould or fungi infestation. It lasts longer than wood mulch, does a better job of sealing in ground moisture and also reduces the amount of trees needed to create mulch.

1st November 2012/by Tyrepress Editors

Maritime Cargo Services “proud to have broken the mould”

In its 20th year as a freight forwarding agent, Maritime Cargo Services (MCS) became the first company of its kind to exhibit at Brityrex. Company representative, Emily Shelley said that the tyre industry “is absolutely vital to our success and we welcome the opportunity to meet with potential key customers.” Having been dealing with “some of the most prominent wholesalers in the tyre industry” over its two decade history, MCS “thought it was an exhibition we’d very much like to support.”

30th October 2012/by Tyrepress Editors

Pirelli prepares for Austin, Texas’s Circuit of the Americas

Pirelli takes its P Zero and Cinturato branded Formula One tyres to the USA Grand Prix at the Circuit of the Americas between 16 and 18 November, and has been preparing for its first visit to Austin, Texas using simulation work. The data for its preparation was obtained from a visit to the track during its construction; the track will only be opened officially this weekend 20-21 October. While practically every circuit was new to Pirelli last season, the circuit is one of only two – and since the other was the thoroughly established Hockenheim, the Circuit of the Americas could be seen as the brand’s biggest challenge of the year. (While it had not raced at Bahrain before, the Italian firm had tested there in the past, and had plenty of information to fall back on.)

19th October 2012/by Tyrepress Editors

Production starts at Michelin’s expanded Lexington plant

Michelin North America reports that tyre manufacture on it Lexington passenger and light truck plant’s expanded production line began on 12 October, marking a key milestone in the completion of a US$200 million investment. Once fully implemented, this investment will add 270 workers to the Lexington plant.

17th October 2012/by Tyrepress Editors

Pirelli nominates final 2012 F1 compound allocations

Pirelli has announced the tyre nominations for the final three Grands Prix of the 2012 Formula One season. All three races – in Abu Dhabi, USA and Brazil – will feature the P Zero White medium compound tyre; the visit to the UAE will also feature the soft P Zero Yellow, while at F1’s first visit to Austin, Texas and the season-ending meeting at Interlagos Pirelli will include its P Zero Silver hard compound.

16th October 2012/by Tyrepress Editors

‘Irregular Geometry’ concerns behind Yokohama recall

Yokohama Tire Corporation is recalling certain Yokohama Avid Touring S radials in the US due to “irregular geometry in the casing turn up area above the tire bead in the lower sidewall.” The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has issued a notice on the recall, which covers 215/65R16 98T SL size tyres produced between February and April 2009. In all, Yokohama reports that only 10,669 tyres are affected.

10th October 2012/by Tyrepress Editors

Employees fear Goodyear plant slowdown means layoffs

Goodyear is reducing production at its Fayetteville plant in the US for the second time in three months, reports Tire Review. The decision to decrease production is describes as a measure to “align production with inventory” in the slow North American tyre market.

10th October 2012/by Tyrepress Editors

Apollo Tyres to raise US$150 million through share sale

On 1 October Apollo Tyres gave word that its Board of Directors has approved the raising of US$150 million through placement of shares to qualified institutional buyers. In a filing to the BSE, Apollo said its board has also approved increasing the investment limit of foreign institutional investors from 30 per cent of the company’s paid up capital to 40 per cent.

4th October 2012/by Tyrepress Editors

Goodyear AMT named a Popular Mechanics ‘breakthrough’

US publication Popular Mechanics has named Goodyear’s Air Maintenance Technology (AMT) a 2012 Breakthrough Award winner. The tyre maker, along with this year’s other awardees, will be honoured at a ceremony in New York City on 4 October.

2nd October 2012/by Tyrepress Editors

Former Goodyear steel cord plant to close

When Goodyear sold its steel tyre cord factories in Colmar-Berg, Luxembourg and Asheboro, US to Korea’s Hyosung Corporation in mid-2011, the tyre maker reported entering into a multi-year agreement for Hyosung to supply it with finished wire products. Now, less than 18 months after Goodyear sold the plants and the right to use certain patents and know-how for US$50 million, Hyosung Corporation has announced the closure of the Asheboro facility. Some 310 employees will be affected by this decision.

1st October 2012/by Tyrepress Editors

Tariff benefitted tyre exporting countries, not the US – TIA

The now-expired US tariff on consumer tyres imported from China failed to save or add new tyre industry jobs in the US, the Tire Industry Association said on 27 September. Reporting the end of the tariffs, the association reiterated its opinion that “free and open markets with level playing fields are best for the consuming public and the local tyre dealership in providing the best price for the best product possible.”

28th September 2012/by Tyrepress Editors

Famous name to make Silverstone debut

Next month's final two rounds of the Protyre Formula Renault BARC Championship at Silverstone will see the famous Brabham family name represented in the series for the first time with Matthew Brabham, son of Geoff and grandson of Formula One legend Sir Jack, set to make his UK race debut.

27th September 2012/by Tyrepress Editors