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H1 Revenues May Dip 35%, Says Titan Europe

Worcestershire based wheel manufacturer Titan Europe Plc has warned that its anticipated revenue for the first half of this year may be 35 per cent lower than a year ago. The company, whose two major shareholders are Mefro Wheels GmbH and Titan International subsidiary Titan Luxembourg Sarl, notes this figure in particular reflects the further weakening its second quarter performance.

“Trading conditions remain difficult with the construction market continuing to be severely hit by the global recession,” stated a June 29 company trading update. “The directors expect by the half-year, based on constant exchange rates, that construction market volumes will be down by about 50 per cent whilst agricultural and mining markets will be down by between 25-30 per cent.

30th June 2009/by Tyrepress Editors

Hot Summer “Is Bad News For Cars”

Motorists are being urged to prepare their cars for what is predicted to be a hotter-than-average summer in 2009. Autoglym warns that extended periods of intense heat and high levels of the sun’s harmful UV light can do more damage than freezing winter conditions – fading paint, causing rubber and plastics to degrade, and baking corrosive contaminants on to paintwork.

In hot conditions, body-panel temperatures can exceed 50 degrees Celsius, baking on contaminants such as bird droppings and tree sap that can eat into unprotected paintwork. Tyres, plastics and rubber seals around windows and doors are also at risk, and can quickly deteriorate if protective dressings are not applied.

29th June 2009/by Tyrepress Editors

Konig Wheels Support Largest Middle East’s Modified Car Competition

With modifiers bringing cars to the Barbican Turbo and the Top 100 in Abu Dhabi from as far as Oman and Qatar last year, this time round Konig Wheels wants to get in on the action. Hamid Moaref, manager of Konig Wheels & Accessories division, Varga Trading, in the Middle East stated: “We’ve been strong supporters of Barbican Turbo from day one – it’s important to have a show dedicated purely to customising vehicles in this region…It’s all about finding the most stylish ‘show cars’ in the region and this fits perfectly with the Konig Wheels brand as our motto is ‘style is king’”. All entries to the Top 100 will receive a 20 per cent discount voucher for Konig Wheels from the organisers.

25th June 2009/by Tyrepress Editors

Enjoy The Best of China

International News

Enjoy Tyre is a young, Chinese company trading in the wheel and tyre sector, which has built up an export business supplying companies in more than 60 countries in less than five years. Turnover in 2008 was US$ 46 million.

The product range includes good quality Chinese tyres, including a number of brands that are becoming increasingly familiar names in Western Europe. Among these are; Linglong, Chengshan, Westlake, Goodride, Taishan, Double Star and Jintong. Miss Xu Xia, managing director of Enjoy, told T&A that the company has global exclusivity for the distribution of the Rotalla brand of passenger car and high/ultra high performance radial tyres, which are being actively marketed across Europe.

25th June 2009/by Tyrepress Editors

Wheel Finish on Accuride Products

Accuride Corp. has broadened the availability of its enhanced finish for aluminum wheels. The process results in a semi-polished appearance on unpolished wheels, and is now available across the company’s aluminum wheel product line, excluding small diameter trailer wheels. (Tire Review/Akron)

24th June 2009/by Tyrepress Editors

Wolfrace Launches New Bari and Milano Wheels

Wolfrace GB has launched two new alloy wheels – the new Bari and Milano. Bari (pronounced ba-ri) is a new multi-spoke design finished in Black with a high quality polished surface. Available with a three-year warranty and a wide range of sizes including 7.0×15, 7.5×16, 8.0×17 and 7.5×18 the Bari has recently been approved by Renault as an aftermarket alloy solution for Renault cars.

For those looking for a more OE alloy for their ride, there’s the new Milano. The simple multi-spoke design, twisted slightly for extra effect, looks great on hardcore rides built to impress with under-stated elegance. The Milano is finished in a new Titanium colour and as well as an enviable range of sizes catering for small hatchbacks to larger vehicles, sizes include 5.5×14, 6.5×15, 6.5×16 and 7.0×17. The Milano also offers the Wolfrace GB range’s unique five year warranty.

23rd June 2009/by Tyrepress Editors

Avon Tyres Wishes Customers ‘Best of British’

Avon Tyres is celebrating all that is ‘Best of British’ on two and four wheels, with a competition and poster campaign. All you have to do to is log on to www.avon-tyres.co.uk. Bikers can win a trackday at Castle Combe on Avon VP2 tyres, while visitors to the car site can win VIP hospitality tickets to the season finale of the Avon Tyres British GT Championship at Brands Hatch on 20 September. Runners-up from each competition will be given the chance to win exclusive limited-edition Avon watches.

Cooper Tire Europe (Avon’s parent company) managing director, Julian Baldwin, said: “We are extremely proud of Avon Tyres’ British heritage, both as a manufacturer and a prime mover in the world of motorsport. Two years ago, our parent company’s faith in the quality of our British engineering skills was illustrated by the siting of the firm’s entire European design and technical centre in Melksham.”

23rd June 2009/by Tyrepress Editors

Nortenha Puts Retreads to the Test

Portuguese retreader Recauchutagem Nortenha and Kraiburg Austria recently joined forces in a series of spectacular demonstrations, aimed at illustrating the quality of Kraiburg patterns and retreading. The vehicles used included buses and tankers and they were subjected to a series of tests, including overturning while cornering (the vehicles were fitted with stabilising wheels), aquaplaning and skidding. The stringent tests subjected the vehicles and tyres to load impacts and transverse forces which never occur in normal driving.

Customers were invited to the promotional event and the invitation was taken up by representatives from over 40 well-known companies from Portugal’s freight forwarding, passenger transportation and construction industries, keen to explore the products behind the slogan “More miles in full safety!” The aim was to show existing customers and potential new cus¬tomers that retreads most definitely stand comparison with new tyres.

23rd June 2009/by Tyrepress Editors

Trelleborg Publicises Agri, Forest, Industrial Unit Capabilities

Swedish manufacturer Trelleborg has released information on its Wheel Systems division, specifically publicising its dedicated larger rims Sävsjö facility in southern Sweden. As a supplier of complete agricultural, forestry and industrial wheels, the company deals with the specialised demands of these typically cumbersome tyres.

It is particularly important in this field that the wheels’ components work harmoniously with each other, as Per Valdmaa, managing director of the Sävsjö manufacturing plant states: “The rim plays a crucial role in the operation of the vehicle or equipment it is fitted on, securing and protecting the tyre. It carries the machine’s load and transfers its performance to the ground. The tyre and the rim are interdependent; the two cannot function without each other. If the rim breaks, the rubber of the tyre is destroyed and the machine they are fitted on will stop working.”

23rd June 2009/by Tyrepress Editors

Evo Corse Release Dakar Land Rover Wheel into Aftermarket

Evo Corse has released its ‘Dakar’ wheel into the aftermarket. According to the company, the 16 x 7-inch wheel has also proven its worth on the Land Rovers of the British Army in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Each wheel is low pressure cast in a permanent steel mould from A356 Primary aluminium alloy, before being receiving a T6 heat treatment to avoid imperfections. The wheels are then CNC machined both front and rear to get the precise spoke profile and to eliminate any possible imbalance. The Dakar is specified up to a load index of 1500kg per corner, meaning that light armoured applications and full loads are both safely within Evo Corse’s stringent design criteria.

22nd June 2009/by Tyrepress Editors

Avon Tyres Help Molyneux Win Manx TT

Isle of Man sidecar legend Dave Molyneux recently took his tally of Isle of Man TT victories to 14, with the assistance of some Avon tyres. Molyneux and passenger Daniel Sayle took Suzuki’s first three-wheeled victory ever on the Island. The victory on his A&J Racing Suzuki outfit also marked 20 years since Molyneux’s first sidecar victory on the island back in 1989.

The Manxman said: “The Avons worked brilliantly and were a pleasure to use. I was delighted to use Avons this year, as I’ve not used them since 1993 when I won on them. In fact my first race win at the TT in 1989 was on Avons too! The guys at BMTR put together the tyres and we picked some good compounds. It was a hard race, but we achieved what we set out to do. We had some trouble with the engine tuning but we ended up doing things ourselves, and it held together so it’s nice that we also managed to be the first bike to complete the race distance in under 59 minutes with laps over 115mph: we’re happy with that!”

19th June 2009/by Tyrepress Editors

Pelmar Delivering Right Mix of Product & Price

It doesn’t take an expert team of analysts to realise the tyre industry isn’t exactly awash with cash at the moment. Thus it is hardly surprising that sales of tyre building equipment have dropped off considerably. Yet one company whose business centres on the equipment used in tyre manufacture is bucking this trend – for Pelmar Engineering Ltd, a weak market equals strong sales.

The Israel based supplier of refurbished and pre-owned tyre industry machinery notes that while Pelmar is naturally successful in times of industry strength when many companies are expanding and instigating new projects, the prices it can offer enable Pelmar to also do well during periods of market contraction. This is perhaps to be expected when, as the company points out, the landed cost of pre-owned tyre building machinery is approximately a quarter of that for its new equivalent.

17th June 2009/by Tyrepress Editors

Hayes Lemmerz Bags New Production Contracts

New business agreements with a number of existing and new customers are being received with gratitude by a financially beleaguered Hayes Lemmerz International. On June 5 the company announced its Saraburi plant in Thailand will produce 16-inch alloy wheels for the Toyota Scion. This new award, Hayes Lemmerz notes, provides additional volume for the company, which is already a major supplier to Toyota in many parts in the world. In addition, the Thai plant has received new business awards to produce 14-inch alloy wheels for existing customer Nissan as well as 15-inch alloy wheels for a new customer, Nissan subsidiary Autech Japan, Inc.

8th June 2009/by Tyrepress Editors

Totrax Supplying Greckster Industrial Range

For the past three years Boston, Lincolnshire based Totrax Ltd has exclusively distributed the Emrald Greckster range of industrial tyres in the UK. Emrald Greckster, states Totrax’s Industrial business manager Peter Roffey, is India’s leading supplier of resilient tyres, industrial pneumatic and press on band. The Greckster, he continues, is constructed using a unique multi-layer concept that uses the mathematically derived BACUC02T Technology. The Greckster’s design features integrated layers of varying hardness; each of these layers is made to a different formulation, integrating the requisite special properties to the end product. Compounds and designs are carefully selected to meet the diverse requirements of tyres used under exacting work conditions.

5th June 2009/by Tyrepress Editors

Gripen UK Enjoying ‘Month on Month’ Growth

Over on the other side of the North Sea lies the headquarters of one of the largest and fastest growing wholesalers in Scandinavia and Europe, Gripen Wheels. The Swedish based company delivers tyres to more than 20 countries and operates numerous warehouses throughout Europe. Some 18 months ago the UK joined the list of locations where Gripen boasts a presence, and the Cambridge headquartered operation now supplies customers nationwide from its warehouse in Immingham, near Hull. Tyres & Accessories recently spoke with Gripen’s UK director, Ray Coulson, to find out how the company is progressing in our market.

2nd June 2009/by Tyrepress Editors