Easy Round
Rema Tip Top has launched a new wheel straightener called Easy Round.
The portable device can be mounted on to a tyre changer; requires no external power source (such as air or electricity) and has no over-heads or maintenance costs.
Rema Tip Top has launched a new wheel straightener called Easy Round.
The portable device can be mounted on to a tyre changer; requires no external power source (such as air or electricity) and has no over-heads or maintenance costs.
Just look at how Ryanair and Easyjet caught the traditional airlines off-guard – that’s just what could happen to your business if you fail to spot an opportunity before one of your competitors does.
Of course, in my line of business, I’m interested in how companies can create opportunities for themselves through their logistics management. It’s easy to look at how supermarkets control their supply chain right back to the farmer in the field, and assume that the same will happen in the automotive sector as well. Certainly, the dominant trend in logistics has been the transfer of control from manufacturer to customer.
Cooper Tire will have to slow production by approximately 30,000 tyres per day due to raw material supply disruptions associated with Hurricane Rita, analysts have reported.
Jenson Button, David Coulthard, and Ralph Schumacher have all recently complained about tyre performance at the Brazilian and other Grand Prix. Before that there was the whole US Grand Prix debacle. Most observers and industry insiders put this down to FIA’s ‘one tyre for a race weekend rule.’ Could these and other problems all be solved with a control tyre? click here. to state your views. Don’t forget to leave some contact details so we can publish your views at a later date.
Tyres & Accessories has teamed up with Continental Tyres to run an exclusive world cup competition. In its capacity as Official Partner of the 2006 FIFA World Cup, Continental is offering one reader the chance to win two all expenses paid tickets to next year’s tournament. A further 10 runners up will receive a goodie bag packed with World Cup merchandise, including match footballs. For more information log onto www.conti-online.co.uk or see the October issue of T&A.
Nokian Tyres has purchased US companies University Wholesalers Inc and University Wholesalers in order to strengthen its wholesale and logistics in the strategically important North American winter tyre markets. The purchase agreement was signed 28 of September 2005.
Vredestein has launched a new agricultural tyre, which it describes as “the new standard for modern medium-class tractors.” The Traxion85 represents the latest stage of development of the company’s Traxion+ series, which has been on the market since 1997. The new tyre is available in 14 sizes.
When Tyres & Accessories last wrote about the pressures facing wholesalers, the issues pressing the business were not too dissimilar to what there are today. Then raw material price increases at the manufacturer level, not to mention high oil prices, were in danger of effecting wholesale pricing policies. Today oil prices (affecting both raw material and transportation costs) are almost 50 per cent higher, and almost all manufacturers have raised their product prices at least once if not twice this year. In order to get a feeling for how these issues are affecting international wholesalers, T&A spoke to representatives of US company Zisser Tire and Belgium-based Deldo.
After 36 years in Fayetteville, Kelly-Springfield Tire Co is changing its name. The company is assuming the name of its parent company – Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co – as Goodyear tries to unify its image. The 111-year-old company employs more than 2,650 people at the Fayetteville plant, which is reported to be one of the largest tyre manufacturing facilities in the world, producing 55,000 tyres per day. Kelly-Springfield was purchased by Goodyear in 1935 and operated as a wholly owned subsidiary until 1996, when it was fully merged with Goodyear.
Peter Harris, who operates the Snap-on Tools franchise, based in Rowlands Castle, Hants, is celebrating being named as one of the top performers in an industry worth over £9 billion a year to the UK economy after reaching the final of the 2005 BFA Franchisee of the Year Awards, backed by HSBC Bank and Express Newspapers.
Paul Burnell has joined ATS Euromaster to head up the commercial vehicle and national car fleet sales operation as group sales director.
Commenting on his appointment, Paul Burnell said: “There is a new, extremely positive business philosophy evolving at ATS Euromaster, I look forward to helping drive this forward and grow sales by delivering new levels of service and value to our customers of all sizes.”
(Akron/Tire Review) Timothy Lauth has been named manager of Cooper Tire & Rubber Co’s corporate technical centre materials laboratory. He will be responsible for managing daily laboratory operations and leading future development, administration and execution of testing to enhance capabilities, data integrity and productivity, the company said.
The seven-year Cooper veteran had been a compound development engineer in materials development, an extruded product development engineer for Cooper-Standard, a commercial tyre development engineer and two years in the Melksham, UK, production facility as a factory technical services engineer.
(Akron/Tire Review) RMA says that shipments of tread rubber will grow in 2005, producing some 17 million retreaded tyres, the third consecutive year that tread stock shipments have increased. While overall economic growth is expected to moderate in 2005, RMA said that strong demand for OTR tyres will add 2.3 per cent in total tread rubber shipments for the year, up from 2004’s 1.5 per cent growth.
Continued strength in construction, increases in the number of trucks, expansion in the manufacturing sector and positive freight trends will sustain growth through 2007 at an annualised rate of 1.7 per cent. The RMA report did not include allowances for any additional tyre use as a result of reconstruction work in the wake of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.
(Akron/Tire Review) Michelin North America (MNA) rolled out a new urban application truck tire, which it claims delivers “up to a 40 per cent improvement in removal miles.” The XZU3 line was introduced at the American Public Transportation Association Expo 2005 in Dallas.
The 30th Annual Tire Mechanics Short Course is to be held concurrently with the Tire Technology Expo and Conference in Stuttgart, from 6 –9 March 2006. According to the organisers, this four-day educational and developmental course will provide engineers and scientists with an in-depth, intense study of developments surrounding tyre engineering.
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