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Motorbike Tyres
Pirelli Motorcycle Tyres Received More Recommendations than Reported
Pirelli’s motorcycle tyres had a better 2009 in terms of proportional brand recommendations for the Total Market than had been previously reported by Encircle Marketing. Encircle market analyst Jason Cunningham got in touch with Tyrepress.com to correct an error, which saw Pirelli ranked lowest for the percentage change in brand recommendations in the second half of 2009 compared to the first half. In fact, the data provided showed the brands...
Michelin Progressive Sipe Technology Featured on New Scooter Tyre
Michelin has launched its new City Grip scooter tyre. With over 80 per cent of scooter riders using their machines daily, preparation for all weather conditions must be high on their agenda, and Michelin believes this is where the City Grip excels with its advanced sipe design. The tyre is the first of its type to feature Michelin’s latest Progressive Sipe Technology (PST) to improve safety on wet roads, the manufacturer states on the new...
Michelin Power One Tyre of the Year for MCN
Announced at the Excel Motorcycle Show in London on 4 February 2010, Michelin’s Power One tyre has been voted Motorcycle News Product of the Year (Tyres). The French giant says that the tyre was developed integrating motorcycle racing technologies into its hypersport tyre range, boasting better handling characteristics through these innovations; a strategy that seems, in the opinion of MCN, to have paid off.
Continental RoadAttack Bike Tyre Sequel Available Now Through Cambrian Tyres
Distributor Cambrian Tyres has announced that it has introduced the ready to ride Continental RoadAttack 2 to its range. The latest bike product from the German tyre manufacturer is its first tyre to offer complete riding safety as soon as it is fitted, according to Conti. The ContiRoadAttack 2 is available now from Cambrian Tyres, coinciding with the start of the 2010 season. Continental will be producing the tyre in six front sizes and seven for...
Michelin Releases “Lightest Sports Motorcycle Tyre Ever”
Michelin has announced the world premiere of its Power Pure, which the French manufacturer says is the lightest sports motorcycle tyre in its category. As a result of the decreased weight, Michelin says the Power Pure tyres offer “unmatched handling with greater responsiveness and enhanced riding pleasure.” They are available now.
Pirelli Adds Trackday Sports Option with New Diablo Superbike PRO Race Tyre
Pirelli has announced its latest motorcycle trackday and race slick tyre, the ‘Diablo Superbike PRO'. The company says the tyre has been released now to coincide with the start of the new World Superbike season tests at Portimão, Portugal. The new tyre is aimed at club racers and track day riders, with technology directly devised from Pirelli's development programme in World Superbikes. The ‘PRO' has been created with racers...
Bridgestone “Adventure Tyres” Rated Highly by Motorcycle News Readers
A survey conducted by Motorcycle News has placed Bridgestone’s Battle Wing and Trail Wing as its number one and two “adventure tyres”. The Biking Britain survey questioned 12,000 readers to find their top 10 in the adventure category. Readers scored the tyres highly on longevity, with Bridgestone’s tyres coming out on top of all other brands. As well as scoring highly for their long wear life, the Battle Wing was also praised by bikers for...
Hyde Harrier and Other Specials Fit Avon Motorbike Tyres
Avon has announced that the new Hyde Harrier and a selection of the world’s finest limited-edition and one-off motorcycles have chosen to fit Avon products as standard. Last month saw Norman Hyde’s latest creation – the Hyde Harrier Jubilee – released to the public and it runs exclusively on Avon Tyres.
Avon Bike Tyres Closing on 100 Years
Coming up to the centenary of its entrance into motorcycle tyre production, Avon Motorcycle Tyres has reported a “successful year in 2009”, despite the UK suffering at the hands of a world-wide recession. The brand believes the breadth of its motorcycle tyre range, offering both performance and “value for money” oriented ranges, has helped it weather the storm. Speaking of storms, the brand closed the year by releasing a successor to its...
Eco-Friendly Oil for Avon Tyres in 2010
Avon Tyres has announced that it will be utilising what it terms “eco-friendly” or “clean oil” in its tyres from 2010. According to the manufacturer, the new tyres will be “eco-friendly with no effect on grip and indeed, in the case of some high-performance range tyres, will actually have increased levels of grip.”
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Eurotire Turns Down Under for Software Solution
Eurotire, Inc., a US based OTR tyre specialist with manufacturing facilities in Romania and the Ukraine, has unveiled its new EuroTrack tyre management system. Eurotire selected Australian software developer Vehicle Management Corporation (VMC) and... -
RUD-Erlau to Show Tyre Protection Technology at Bauma
RUD-Erlau, purportedly the inventor of the tyre protection chains (TPC), is to show it most advanced technology at this year’s Bauma show in Munich (19 – 25 April 2010, C2 Booth 311/406). According to the company, RUD-Erlau’s TPCs are more than... -
Are Automotive Battery Manufacturers Facing Overcapacity?
The share of electrified powertrains is expected to increase significantly in all major automotive markets as a result of marked decreases in the cost of batteries over the next decade. Yet the desire to capitalise on this growing market may lead to... -
New Generation Michelin Alpin Available H1 2010
The fourth generation of Michelin’s Alpin cold weather tyre is ready, and the French manufacturer states it will be introduced into European replacement markets during the first half of 2010 in “all regions where winter roads are generally wet –... -
Infinity Aims to 'Go Deep' with Fast Growing 'Premium Budget' Strategy
When Al-Dobowi Group executives Surrender Singh Kandhari and his son Harjeev Singh Kandhari founded Infinity tyres six years ago, they probably didn't envisage how quickly their ambitious plans would come to fruition. What began with a series of... -
TGI Adds Cosmo Truck Radials
US company Tire Group International has added a premium radial truck tyre line under the Cosmo brand name to its portfolio of products. With a range of more than 350 sizes in the Light Truck, Truck, Industrial, Agricultural and OTR segment, Cosmo Tire... -
Toyo Introduces Versado CUV for Crossovers
Toyo Tires has launched its latest addition to the Versado range in the US. The Versado CUV, designed for crossover vehicles, is promoted as being Toyo Tires’ “most efficient tyre yet” thanks to the low rolling resistance compound utilised. The... -
Pirelli Cinturato Tops Club, Magazine Tests
Pirelli’s Cinturato passenger tyre line dominated annual tests run by German auto club ADAC, Switzerland’s Touring Club (TCS) and the Austrian automobile club (OEAMTC), reports Tire Review. The Cinturato P7 and P6 were named best summer tyres in... -
Accuride Introduces OEM-Quality Chrome Wheel Accessories
Accuride Corporation recently debuted a line of OEM-quality chrome wheel accessories. This new range consists of ABS chrome front and rear wheel hub and nut covers designed to fit most class 7 and 8 trucks, trailers, and recreational vehicles. -
Bigger Tyre Changer Turntables for Increasingly Bigger Wheels
Snap-on Equipment has introduced two new tyre changers under the Hofmann and John Bean brands to meet what the company perceives as a growing need for tyre shops and garages to handle the larger wheel rim diameters fitted to an increasing number of...
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Market Conditions Prompt Mothballing of Sapphire’s Avonmouth Site
The Avonmouth based waste tyre chipping facility opened by Sapphire Energy Recovery last August has been ‘mothballed’ as a measure to counter difficult trading conditions in the used tyre collection and processing market. The stopping of... -
Kumho OE for Mercedes Sprinter
Kumho Tyres reports that late last year it began supplying its Radial 857 light commercial vehicle tyre in size 235/65 R16C 115/113R as original equipment for the Mercedes-Benz Sprinter (NCV3). The Radial 857 is Kumho’s latest tyre for vans and... -
Tire Rack Upgrades Consumer Site
The Tire Rack has made a major enhancement to its TireRack.com consumer tyre and wheel sales website, reports Tire Review. The enhancement is “designed to make the tire buying experience even faster, easier and more efficient,” Tire Rack said, by... -
Tyremax Puts Cameo into New Premises
Tyremax has expanded its business with the addition of two new sites in Finchley and Chigwell, bringing the total number of sites to three in North and East London. As a result, it will be extending its contract with Cam Systems to introduce the Cameo... -
Acceptance of Daewoo Sale to Aid Kumho Restructuring Plan
The Kumho Asiana Group is one step closer to untying its financial knots following the financial investors of Daewoo Engineering and Construction accepted the terms for selling their share in the company. This leaves the path clear for Kumho Asiana to... -
Major Manufacturers Testing Ekoprena
Two years ago Sumitomo Rubber subsidiary Dunlop Falken Tyres Ltd releases the Enasave 97, a tyre containing only three per cent petroleum derived materials. The substance enabling this close to total freedom from synthetic rubber in the Ensave 97 is... -
Despite Reduced Sales, Pirelli Tyre Records Stronger Profit in 2009
Financial statements approved by the Pirelli & C. SpA Board of Directors on March 10 show Pirelli Tyre to have attained revenues of 3,992.9 million euros during 2009, a 2.6 per cent reduction on a year earlier. Despite this slight annual decrease,... -
Bridgestone Europe Rated a “Top Employer”
The CRF Institute, an independent research organisation specialised in labour conditions, has certified the Brussels based Bridgestone Europe headquarters a “top employer” in its Top Employers Belgium 2010 ranking. According to CRF,... -
Goodyear’s Keegan Pay Packet Worth $17 million in 2009
Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co’s chairman and outgoing chief executive of Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. received a pay package worth as much as US$17.196 million in 2009. While Keegan’s “non-equity incentive plan compensation” virtually... -
Lanxess Examining Options for Brazil Retreading Chemical Production
Some 18 million truck and bus tyres are said to be retreaded in North America each year and a further nine million in South America, and to meet growing demand for the raw materials used in retreading both within the region and worldwide, Lanxess’s...
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Market Conditions Prompt Mothballing of Sapphire’s Avonmouth Site
The Avonmouth based waste tyre chipping facility opened by Sapphire Energy Recovery last August has been ‘mothballed’ as a measure to counter difficult trading conditions in the used tyre collection and processing market. The stopping of... -
Kumho OE for Mercedes Sprinter
Kumho Tyres reports that late last year it began supplying its Radial 857 light commercial vehicle tyre in size 235/65 R16C 115/113R as original equipment for the Mercedes-Benz Sprinter (NCV3). The Radial 857 is Kumho’s latest tyre for vans and... -
Eurotire Turns Down Under for Software Solution
Eurotire, Inc., a US based OTR tyre specialist with manufacturing facilities in Romania and the Ukraine, has unveiled its new EuroTrack tyre management system. Eurotire selected Australian software developer Vehicle Management Corporation (VMC) and... -
Tire Rack Upgrades Consumer Site
The Tire Rack has made a major enhancement to its TireRack.com consumer tyre and wheel sales website, reports Tire Review. The enhancement is “designed to make the tire buying experience even faster, easier and more efficient,” Tire Rack said, by... -
Continental Launches Sime Brand 4x4 Tyres in Malaysia
Continental Sime Tyre has rolled out two tyre models of its Sime Tyres 4x4 range aimed at SUVs, pick-ups and crossover SUVs for Malaysia. The Centipede AT and HT product will be available in 25 55 to 80 series sizes. The tyres are designed for use in... -
"New Products, Innovation Key to Top Line Growth": Goodyear Dunlop at Geneva
Goodyear Dunlop has spent the last week showcasing four concept and prototype tyres featuring innovations for future use on earth and in outer space in addition to its five latest tyres for European motorists. The company said that over the course of... -
RUD-Erlau to Show Tyre Protection Technology at Bauma
RUD-Erlau, purportedly the inventor of the tyre protection chains (TPC), is to show it most advanced technology at this year’s Bauma show in Munich (19 – 25 April 2010, C2 Booth 311/406). According to the company, RUD-Erlau’s TPCs are more than... -
Dunlop New Exclusive Ducati 848 Challenge Tyre Supplier
Dunlop has been announced as the sole tyre supplier to the new Ducati 848 race series. The leading tyre manufacturer agreed a deal with New Era Motorcycle Club and Ducati UK to ensure all bikes racing in the new championship are shod with Dunlop... -
Tyremax Puts Cameo into New Premises
Tyremax has expanded its business with the addition of two new sites in Finchley and Chigwell, bringing the total number of sites to three in North and East London. As a result, it will be extending its contract with Cam Systems to introduce the Cameo... -
Brityrex Increases Aftermarket Appeal
More exhibitors from across the aftermarket have signed up for October’s Brityrex International exhibition, with familiar names and new brands seeking to capitalise on the potential offered by a post-recession tyre and equipment marketplace. Among...
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Al Saeedi Adds New Gallant Truck Tyre Size
Al Saeedi Automotive TRD Co (LLC), the exclusive distributor of Gallant brand truck tyres in the Middle East and Africa, has added 1200R24 20PR GL 885 to the range of sizes it offers. The new tyre is described as an all-position radial optimised for highway and on/off road applications. According to the distributor, the special features of this tyre include ultra-high tyre bead structure and a lateral block shoulder. “These features help enable... -
Apollo’s Passenger Tyre ‘Grand Masters’ Meet in Beijing
Some 186 Apollo Tyres dealers assembled in Beijing on the first weekend of December for the tyre maker’s “Grand Master Business Partners” meeting. A total of 170 India based partners and 16 international dealers, all of whom exceeded their projected passenger car tyre sales targets over the last twelve months, attended a three-day meeting with company officials in the Chinese capital. Apollo’s strategy for the coming year was shared with... -
US Tariffs an Opportunity for Asian Manufacturers
Although the US decision to charge tariffs on consumer tyres produced in China has presented the country’s manufacturers and importers of the product with a sizeable hurdle to their business, the Kasikorn Research Center, a subsidiary of Thailand’s Kasikornbank, believes the decision presents Thai exporters with a major opportunity to increase their market share. -
Smuggling, Under-Invoicing Hurting Pakistan’s Tyre Makers
More than six million tyres are purchased in Pakistan each year, but even though local manufacturers are only capable of producing 2.5 million units annually, they are operating at under capacity. The reason for this, believes the head of one domestic producer, is the prevalence of smuggled and under-invoiced foreign brands. -
JK Tyre to Increase Exports to Central, South America
JK Tyre and Industries is aiming to substantially increase exports from Tornel, the Mexican company it acquired last year. According to the Press Trust of India the company aims to do this within a year through further expand within the Central and South American markets. -
Tire Rack Tests Yokohama’s Orange Oil Tyre in 'Real World Ride'
Yokohama Tire Corporation's (YTC) eco-friendly dB Super E-specT tyre, which is made of 80 per cent non-petrol products, scored well in a recent low rolling resistance test conducted by US retailer Tire Rack. "The Tire Rack test shows that the dB Super E-spec, which introduces new technology in tyre materials and design, is noticeably better on all-around performance," said Mark Chung, YTC director, corporate strategy and planning.... -
TGI Opens Houston Office
Tire Group International (TGI) has opened a new sales office in Houston, Texas headed by Tom Wilbur. Wilbur comes to TGI with over 12 years experience in the tyre industry, having worked for firms such as Area Wholesale Tire and Tire Dealers Warehouse. -
Hankook Evaluates Southeast Asian Sites for New Plant
Hankook Tire intends to build a new factory – its sixth overseas plant – somewhere in Southeast Asia. South Korea’s Yonhap news reports company CEO Suh Seung-hwa as stating on October 23 that Hankook may spend between US$250 million and $300 million building the new facility, which is expected to have an annual capacity of ten million units. -
Conti Sime Opens BestDrive Continental Car Centre in East Malaysia
On 18 October Bintang Ramai Sdn. Bhd., in partnership with Continental Sime Tyre Sdn. Bhd. (CST) opened the first BestDrive passenger car and Light Truck (PLT) centre in East Malaysia. The new branch is the 16th BestDrive in Malaysia, but the first in Eastern Malaysia. According to Benoit Henry, CEO of CST, the BestDrive PLT centre empowers the company’s partners with the opportunity to use its brand to position themselves as uniform,... -
Nizhnekamskshina to Commission 1.2 million Tyre All-Steel Radial Plant
Russian petrochemicals group OAO Tatneft (Kama and Niznekamshina’s parent company) said it is set to expand its tyre manufacturing capacity with the commissioning of a 1.2 million tyres a year all-steel truck and bus radial plant near its existing Niznekamshskina plant in Niznekamsk. The commissioning follows investment of around 17 billion rubles (£362 million; 388 million euros; US$578 million) in line with a plan first conceived in 2006....
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Following the unusually harsh winter, will seasonal tyres see growth in 2010?
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