Tyrepress.com http://www.tyrepress.com/ en-gb {debug} Tyres and Accesories" /> http://www.tyrepress.com/files.php?file= http://www.tyrepress.com/ http://www.tyrepress.com/News/51/Africa/redisa_withdrawn.html Africa 2012-01-26 15:10:00 A controversial plan to introduce a levy on new tyres to pay for the recycling and collection of used rubber has been halted by the South African government. The Recycling and Economic Development Initiative (REDISA) Waste Tyre Management Plan, which would mean a 2.3 rand (19p) per kilogramme charge on new tyres, had been approved and was open for registration by the end of January. http://www.tyrepress.com/News/51/Africa/infinity_s_nigerian_promotion.html Africa 2012-01-26 13:31:00 Infinity Tyres has completed its tenth annual December promotion in Nigeria. Themed as “Value Drive”, the company distributed scratch-cards after any tyre or battery purchase from its 11 nationwide outlets. Vikas Bahl, Infinity Tyres’ head of Marketing, said that in previous years: “we have organized successful promos and we have seen their effect on our customers, their countenance, and consequently, their loyalty to the brand. We believe that our customers are highly valuable and for this reason, their loyalty to Infinity Tyres should be appreciated at the end of every year, through programmes like this”. http://www.tyrepress.com/News/51/Africa/24307.html Africa 2012-01-18 15:05:00 Tyre manufacturers, transporters, dealers and processers in South Africa have until January 31 to register for the Recycling and Economic Development Initiative (REDISA) Waste Tyre Management Plan, which was approved by the country’s Department of Water and Environmental Affairs in November 2011. Registration is compulsory and is required for calculating a new levy intended to cover the cost of end of life tyres. The levy will take effect as of 1 February 2012. http://www.tyrepress.com/News/51/Africa/23913.html Africa 2011-11-21 14:41:00 South Africa’s Competition Commission has settled its price fixing case with Apollo Tyres South Africa. Under the terms of the deal struck between the tyre maker and the government body, Apollo will pay a 45 million rand (£3.5 million) fine and admit to its prior participation in the tyre manufacturers’ pricing cartel that also allegedly included the South African Tyre Manufacturers Conference (Pty) Ltd (SATMC), Goodyear South Africa, Continental Tyre South Africa and Bridgestone South Africa. The penalty Apollo Tyres South Africa is required to pay represents 4.75 per cent of its total 2008 turnover. http://www.tyrepress.com/News/51/Africa/23791.html Africa 2011-11-07 11:57:00 Nigeria’s official body in charge of standards, certification and inspection says it hopes that the seizure and destruction of used and substandard tyres will encourage major manufacturers to resume tyre production within the country. Benin City-based newspaper the Sunday Observer reported on November 6 that the Standards Organisation of Nigeria (SON) had destroyed more than 60 truckloads of these tyres, and SON director of enforcement Louis Njoku told the newspaper the action was taken to encourage companies such as Dunlop and Michelin to relocate their industries back to Nigeria. http://www.tyrepress.com/News/51/Africa/23403.html Africa 2011-09-15 08:26:00 Federal fit its Couragia Mud Terrain tyres and branded livery to its sole sales distributer’s Jimmy Jeep in the recent Castrol 4x4 Jamboree in Zimbabwe. The event was held at the 4x4 Club site at Donnybrook, and “trail junky” Clarry Viljoen, sales manager from Taita Trading, ran the company’s Mud Terrain tyre to cope with tough conditions that varied between sand, dirt, hills and mud. http://www.tyrepress.com/News/51/Africa/23272.html Africa 2011-08-26 14:15:00 Persistence may soon pay off for South Africa’s tyre manufacturers. In early September the Supreme Court in the city of Bloemfontein will hold the final hearing on an appeal regarding the dumping of Chinese tyres in South Africa. If the decision goes its way, the local industry will be given the means of resisting something said to be injuring its viability. http://www.tyrepress.com/News/51/Africa/23121.html Africa 2011-08-10 07:49:00 Tanzanian newspaper The Guardian reports its country’s government plans to hand over General Tyre East Africa to Tanzania’s National Development Corporation (NDC) in response to what it calls the “hard conditions” imposed by shareholder Continental AG. The country’s Industry and Trade Minister, Dr. Cyril Chami, is reported as saying talks with Continental, who holds a 24 per cent share in General Tyre East Africa, failed to reach a suitable conclusion. He attributes this lack of success to conditions Continental wishes to impose, such as restricting General Tyre’s activities to its domestic market and just two export destinations – Uganda and Burundi – and that the Tanzanian tyre maker should pay back its outstanding US$3.321 debt to Conti. Continental’s alleged lack of investment plans for General Tyre is another given factor. http://www.tyrepress.com/News/51/Africa/22513.html Africa 2011-05-30 09:51:00 Logistics firm Kuehne + Nagel has assumed management of warehouse operations at Continental’s Port Elizabeth tyre making facility in South Africa. Within the scope of the new contract, Kuehne + Nagel will support Continental Tyre S.A. (Pty) Ltd’s original equipment and aftermarket dealer business in the South African market through receiving tyres from production, carrying out quality control checks, storage, inbound and outbound handling, picking and packing, inventory management as well as management of empty containers. In addition, Kuehne + Nagel will provide an external warehousing solution for overflow volumes in Port Elizabeth. http://www.tyrepress.com/News/51/Africa/22151.html Africa 2011-04-08 14:36:00 The National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa, the 260,000 member union that represents tyre and metal industry workers, states it will engage in collective bargaining with employers this year to gain a number of benefits for its members, including a 20 per cent across the board wage increase. Other benefits it seeks include agreement contracts with a minimum one-year’s duration and a ban on labour brokers.