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Goodyear advises drivers to prepare for winter

As part of the launch of the Goodyear Ultragrip 8 Performance in September, Goodyear advised motorists – especially those driving performance vehicles – that fitting winter tyres is the best way to prepare for the forthcoming winter. According to the Met Office, 366.8mm of rain fell across the UK up to 29 August showed. And what’s more the latest figures follow a record breakingly wet April, and an April to June period that was also the wettest recorded in the UK.

2nd October 2012/by Tyrepress Editors

Double Coin promotes winter, low profile products at CITExpo

This year was the first time Double Coin Holdings was present at CITExpo as an exhibitor, and vice-president Liu Xue Jun told Tyres & Accessories that the company had met with a good mix of end users, dealers and wholesalers during the show. The Shanghai exhibition was used as an opportunity to meet new customers and to show off the company’s new range Double Coin brand winter truck tyres. “Winter tyres are a new product for us,” commented Mr. Liu. “We’re going to promote these, along with our new 295/60 low profile tyres.”

28th September 2012/by Tyrepress Editors

Delticom offers ‘DEX’ as label alternative

One occasional criticism of the European tyre label is that, unlike the energy efficiency label, it provides more than just a single performance measurement. Delticom is avoiding such issues with its new Delticom Efficiency Class Index, or, DEX a measurement it will offer its customers in addition to the label.

25th September 2012/by Tyrepress Editors

Is the tyre industry prepared for EC1222/2009?

With little over a month until the EU tyre labelling legislation becomes mandatory, independent DriveRight report an influx of enquiries from all over Europe for labelling information via their EC1222.com website. When the EC1222/2009 legislation was announced, DriveRight foresaw a need for an independent supplier of label information. The company, with its 12 years of experience in the tyre industry, obtained the data of 91 major manufacturers and launched EC1222.com as an independent entity.

24th September 2012/by Tyrepress Editors

A busy year for TyreSafe

Safety organisation TyreSafe held its annual communications briefing in September, where chairman Stuart Jackson looked back on the organisation's achievements and gave a taste of future initiatives.

He began with a brief history – TyreSafe was formed in 2006, with 14 members and held its first tyre safety month the following year. Since then it has mounted various campaigns, majoring on subjects such as pressure, tread depth, part-worn tyres and winter tyres, to name but a few. These campaigns have been staged across all media – print, TV, radio and online and the organisation's efforts were recognised when it picked up the Prince Michael Road Safety Award.

24th September 2012/by Tyrepress Editors

Time to get your Tyre Safety Month materials

October is fast approaching and TyreSafe invites garages, tyre dealers and other road safety professionals to start their preparation for Tyre Safety Month by ordering their campaign materials. This year’s campaign is titled ‘Time for a Change?’ and addresses the perennial favourite British topic of conversation, the weather. To be precise, it highlights the need for drivers to make sure their tyres are safe and legal at a time when the weather normally takes a turn for the worse.

20th September 2012/by Tyrepress Editors

Goodyear launches UltraGrip8 Performance

Despite the late summer sun (or perhaps because of it) Goodyear invited journalists to the launch of the UltraGrip8 Performance at Icebar in London on 6 September. While it may have been uncharacteristically warm for a British summer, the Icebar environment (where the walls, bar, table and even glasses are made of ice) were intended to provide a physical reminder of what winter conditions mean for cars and drivers alike.

18th September 2012/by Tyrepress Editors

Michelin, Conti top US consumer all season, winter tyre tests

In American advice magazine, Consumer Reports’ latest tests of all-season and winter replacement tyres, Michelin and Continental lead the way, Tire Review reports. However, the results show that many tyres offer good overall performance. In total, CR tested 78 models of all-season and winter tyres: 20 T speed rated all-season tyres; 20 H speed rated and 22 V speed rated performance all-season tyres; and 16 winter tyre models.

14th September 2012/by Tyrepress Editors

Labelling frostbite: could tyre label guide UK away from winter tyres?

On the snow-dusted face of it, the UK winter tyre market seems to provide a couple of conundrums for those trying to predict and capitalise on demand for seasonal products. The first issue, and the most obvious in many tyre industry professionals’ minds, must be the Oceanic climate of the country, which, coupled with the warm air of the Gulf stream, provides us with only moderately cold winters. The second, a novelty for 2012 is the start of mandatory tyre labelling, which I will come to later.

14th September 2012/by Tyrepress Editors

Sailun Ice Blazer winter tyre available in Europe

Sailun says its winter tyres has been established in the North American and Canadian market for several years, and the company is now seeking to increase its seasonal prominence in Europe with its Ice Blazer range. Sailun is accessing the continental markets through appointed distributors covering traditionally strong winter tyre markets in Scandinavia and the Baltic region, as well as in Germany, where recent legislation has increased the profile of winter products, and Austria. Now, Sailun says it is seeking to add distribution of the product to the more temperate climates of France, Benelux and the UK, where it says distributors are “considering stocking the Ice Blazer patterns”.

14th September 2012/by Tyrepress Editors

Pirelli publicising winter tyres’ benefits on back of new tyres

With two new winter tyres for 2012, Pirelli is enthusiastically promoting the benefits of fitting specialist cold weather tyres in the UK. Joining the Italian manufacturer’s Sottozero Serie II high performance winter tyre are the recently introduced Winter SnowcontrolSerie 3, designed for smaller cars, and the Scorpion Winter SUV tyre, which was displayed at Reifen 2012, and replaces the Scorpion Ice.

14th September 2012/by Tyrepress Editors

Toyo’s Snowprox S953 leads winter range

Toyo’s range of winter tyres is designed to tackle all wintry driving conditions, aiming to increase drivers’ safety in more conditions than just the handful of snowy days (or weeks) in the UK. Toyo stresses that its winter tyres do not require snow to appreciate the benefits they offer. Toyo identifies slush, ice, mud and cold December downpours as conditions in which the tyres will “prove their worth in keeping drivers on the move”. The company’s computer-optimised tread designs come in a wide variety of sizes to suit all vehicles, from small compact cars to ultra high performance models to 4×4’s and SUV’s.

13th September 2012/by Tyrepress Editors

Maxxis continues to develop winter tyre range

Maxxis’ range of winter tyres is designed to cope with conditions across Europe, where the manufacturer says they have “proved their reliability”. Designed to disperse snow and deliver improved grip, Maxxis has developed its winter weather tyres with Virtual Intelligent Prototyping technology, engineering them to cope with the most extreme temperatures and slippery surfaces. The range currently includes the MA-PW, the MA-W1, MA-W2 and MA-SPW Wintermaxx range tyres, and the MA-SW Victra Snow tyres.

13th September 2012/by Tyrepress Editors

Interstate adds 3 winter lines increasing size of range to 120

Dutch tyre wholesaler Interstate Tire & Rubber Co. has added three new winter lines to its 2012 winter programme, which now covers van and SUV sizes, as well as including a fully studdable PCR-light truck line. The three new winter tyres join the popular the popular Winter IWT-2 EVO line, meaning that the company now offers over 120 unique sizes in its private brand winter line-up. The wholesaler says that the new additions mean that its own brand has 11 tyre lines and over 250 sizes in what it calls the “premium-budget segment”.

10th September 2012/by Tyrepress Editors

Firenza’s Nu Ice range represents entrance to winter market

Stamford Tyres brand, Firenza has an established presence in UK and European markets, with patterns across the PCR, UHP, light commercial and truck sectors. The brand expanded its purview in 2012 to include a recent range expansion into specialist cold weather products. Its growing portfolio now includes the winter tyre range, Nu Ice.

10th September 2012/by Tyrepress Editors