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Time and wear make tyres louder, and quieter – study

The results of a study carried out by the Hong Kong Polytechnic University indicate that two changes through the life of a tyre – tread rubber hardness and tread wear – have a counterbalancing effect on each other. Wing-tat Hung, Yat-ken Lam and Chung-fai Ng, from the university’s Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, and Randolph Chi-kin Leung from the Department of Mechanical Engineering, presented the findings of their study ‘the impacts of tyre hardness and tread depth on tyre/road noise’ at this week’s ICSV 20 congress in Thailand.

12th July 2013/12,345 Comments/by Tyrepress Editors

Yokohama names US plant designer

A little over two months ago, Yokohama Tire Corporation (YTC) announced its plan to build a new commercial tyre plant in the US. On 11 July it announced that the first phase of the facility in West Point, Mississippi will be designed by Kajima Associates/Architects & Engineers, PC of Atlanta, Georgia. The project taken on by Kajima Associates calls for the design of a 931,000 square foot (86,500 square metre) factory that includes production, warehousing and operations facilities.

12th July 2013/12,345 Comments/by Tyrepress Editors

Lanxess opens first Russian facility

Less than a month after inaugurating its 100,000 tonne per annum butyl rubber plant in Singapore and six weeks after launching a new curing bladder facility in Brazil, Lanxess has celebrated the opening of another production site that will serve the tyre and automotive industries. The company’s first facility in Russia, a polymer-bound rubber additives plant operated by its Rhein Chemie subsidiary, officially opened on 4 July, creating around 40 jobs; a second facility at the plant site in Lipetsk, which will produce bladders for use in tyre production, will open in 2016.

4th July 2013/12,345 Comments/by Tyrepress Editors

Zeisser appointed Yokohama’s North American head of OE sales

Yokohama Tire Corporation has hired Andrew Zeisser as its new director of OE sales. In this role, Zeisser will be responsible for the company’s original equipment business in North America and will lead Yokohama Tire Corporation’s OE sales, engineering and quality functions. He will be based at the company’s Detroit, Michigan office.

3rd July 2013/12,345 Comments/by Tyrepress Editors

New Yokohama dumper radial launched

Yokohama Rubber has introduced a new tyre size for rigid dump trucks used in construction and mining applications. The size 27.00R49 fitment has been added to the RB42 range; the new tyre is TRA coded as ‘E-4’ by the U.S. Tire and Rim Association. Yokohama says the RB42 range now covers ‘regular’ specifications for ordinary off-the-road surfaces and ‘cut protected’ versions with increased resistance to cutting – making the line-up suitable for a wide range of surfaces, from soft or loose surfaces such as mud or sand through to rough surfaces such as gravel and rocks.

27th June 2013/12,345 Comments/by Tyrepress Editors

More high performance OE fitments for Yokohama

Yokohama has been selected as original equipment tyre provider by Audi and Mercedes-Benz for a number of the German brands’ latest high performance cars. The newest addition to Yokohama’s high performance range, the recently-unveiled Advan Sport V105, has been adopted by both on some of their most rewarding drivers’ cars. Additionally Yokohama tyres were used recently to break a Nürburgring Nordschleife record for the fastest road-legal Subaru Impreza around the Green Hell. Built by Yokohama partner Revolution Motorstore in the UK, the Impreza was driven to and from the Nordschleife having lapped the circuit in 7:53.08.

6th June 2013/12,345 Comments/by Tyrepress Editors

Yokohama, residents plant 5,000 trees in Otsuchi-cho

The Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd., carried out a "Heisei Forest" tree planting event on 18 May to support recovery of Otsuchi-cho, Kamihei-gun, Iwate prefecture, one of the areas affected by the Great East Japan Earthquake. 553 participants, including 160 Otsuchi-cho residents, planted about 5,000 broad-leaved evergreen seedlings indigenous to the local area. Together with guests, including Otsuchi Mayor Yutaka Ikarigawa, representatives of supporting companies, Dr. Akira Miyawaki (plant ecologist) and former F1 driver Ukyo Katayama, 245 people from Yokohama Rubber attended the event, including chairman and CEO Tadanobu Nagumo, President Hikomitsu Noji and 54 employee volunteers.

31st May 2013/12,345 Comments/by Tyrepress Editors

Yokohama a technical partner for latest Gran Turismo

Many tyre makers are involved in motorsport activities, and a racetrack presence can indeed do wonders for a brand’s public profile. Yokohama Rubber has announced its participation in a technical partnership with a difference – it recently became the first tyre manufacturer to serve as official technical partner to the popular ‘Gran Turismo’ series of motor racing video games. Yokohama lent its expertise to the latest version, Gran Turismo 6.

17th May 2013/12,345 Comments/by Tyrepress Editors

Yokohama OE on Lexus IS

Yokohama Rubber reports that original equipment supply of its BluEarth E51 has begun for the latest Lexus IS sport saloon models. The latest Lexus IS is a completely new model, and a hybrid version – the IS300h – has also been added to the line-up. The BluEarth E51 is being fitted to the Lexus IS in size 225/45R17 91W.

16th May 2013/12,345 Comments/by Tyrepress Editors

Yokohama sales and income down over a third, but outlook ‘unchanged’

The Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd., has reported first quarter net sales of 127.7 billion yen a 5.6 per cent decline compared with the same period in the previous year. Operating income was worse, down 18.1 per cent, to 7.6 billion yen. Meanwhile net income was down 35.7 per cent to 5.6 billion yen. According to the company, the downturn in sales and earnings resulted chiefly from weakening sales of tyres in the Japanese original equipment market and in Yokohama's principal markets overseas.

13th May 2013/12,345 Comments/by Tyrepress Editors

Yokohama Tire Corp. names Tom Masuguchi senior VP, chief strategy officer

Tom Masuguchi has been promoted to Yokohama Tire Corporation’s senior vice-president, chief strategy officer and deputy chief financial officer. The former vice-president and chief accounting officer began in these new positions on 1 May.

3rd May 2013/12,345 Comments/by Tyrepress Editors

Signing ceremony held for Yokohama’s US plant

On 29 April 2013, Yokohama Rubber signed an agreement with the US State of Mississippi, making plans to build a truck and bus tyre plant in West Point official. Hikomitsu Noji, president and representative director of Yokohama Rubber and Mississippi Governor Phil Bryant represented the tyre maker and State at a signing ceremony held at the West Point Ritz, near the site of the future company plant. The facility will be located approximately 149 miles (240 kilometres) from state capital Jackson.

30th April 2013/12,345 Comments/by Tyrepress Editors

Mississippi Governor on Yokohama plant decision

The Governor of Mississippi has commented on Yokohama’s decision to locate its new US truck and bus tyre plant within his state. “This is an historic day for Mississippi, and we are proud to welcome this world-leader in tyre manufacturing to our great state,” said Gov. Phil Bryant. “The passing of this legislation will result initially in 500 new jobs, with the potential to create up to 2,000 total jobs, and it will have a positive impact on the state’s economy for years to come.

29th April 2013/12,345 Comments/by Tyrepress Editors

Yokohama to Build TBR plant in the US

On 26 April, Yokohama Rubber announced plans to set up a new plant to manufacture truck and bus tyres in the United States. The plant will be established with a capital investment of US$300 million and construction work will begin at the site in West Point, Mississippi by September 2013. The Japanese tyre maker intends for production to start in October 2015 and says the factory will have an annual production capacity of one million tyres.

26th April 2013/12,345 Comments/by Tyrepress Editors

Kumho passes 100 million tyre milestone in China

Speaking at the Auto Shanghai 2013 show, Cao Zhuangzhu, Kumho Tire (China) Sales Company Ltd’s general manager of marketing and logistics, reported sales of 100 million tyres in China as of the end of 2012. “Following the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and South Korea in 1992, Kumho Tire was one of the first foreign-funded enterprises to invest in China, and construction began on our Nanjing plant in 1994,” he added. “Today we have a total of more than 5,500 employees and an annual production capacity of more than 30 million tyres.”

26th April 2013/12,345 Comments/by Tyrepress Editors