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You are here: Home1 / News2 / Michelin celebrates truck radials’ 60th anniversary

Michelin celebrates truck radials’ 60th anniversary

Date: 25th October 2012 Author: Tyrepress Editors Comments: 0

Michelin has marked the 60th anniversary of the introduction of radial truck tyres in 1952. The company says its first Michelin X Radial truck tyre helped to transform the road transport industry, which until then was using cross-ply tyres. The company says radialisation made trucking safer and more efficient. Of course, following the innovation, other manufacturers pursued the same path, meaning that radial tyres accounted for 100 per cent of the Western European truck tyre market in 2011. Michelin now estimates that radials account for 73 per cent of truck tyres worldwide.

Michelin researcher Marius Mignol invented the first Michelin X steel radial tyre for cars in 1946, following it with the launch of the X Radial truck tyre in 1952. The ‘X’ is Michelin’s trademark for its radial tyres and is making its most recent appearance in the truck market on the revolutionary X MultiWay 3D tyre, which has just been launched in the UK’s most popular commercial vehicle tyre size, the 295/80 R 22.5. 

Sharn Samra, head of Michelin Truck Marketing for the UK and Republic of Ireland, says: “Michelin’s history has been shaped by innovation and there’s no better example of that than the radial tyre. Marius Mignol conducted secret research in occupied France during World War II to develop the Michelin X, and all these years later his dedication to innovation continues to run through our technical culture – just look at the €592 million of investment we channel into research and development every year! That is more than any other tyre manufacturer.”

A decade after launching the X Radial truck tyre, with word about the tyre’s benefits spreading throughout the transport industry, Michelin ran a series of high-profile field tests across Europe in 1962. The company compared the performance of a set of Michelin X Radial truck tyres with conventional cross-ply truck tyres on two trucks undertaking a 435km journey from Thiviers, in the Dordogne region of France, to Paris. The truck running Michelin’s X Radial truck tyres reduced fuel consumption by 6.7 litres per 100 kilometres compared to the truck running on cross-ply tyres, a saving of 13.8 per cent.

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