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Spring Cleaning Your Warehouse?

Too much wasted space, can’t find what you want, difficult to store and retrieve goods? These are classic symptoms of a disorganised warehouse. You just know that there must be a better way, but what is it? This is where Polish company Arcom can help, as it is in the business of supplying effective storage solutions.

Arcom designs and manufactures welded metal racking mainly for the automotive and related industries. In particular a variety of racks for the storage of tyres: small tyres, medium tyres, big tyres, very big tyres, in fact every kind of tyre that you can imagine. So whether you run a shop, a farm, a tyre services depot or even a huge tyre factory, there is a product to suit you. The company appreciates that tyres have to be moved about so it also manufactures trolleys.

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TyrexpoAsia09 Dates Confirmed for 2011

Exhibitors attending the seventh staging of TyrexpoAsia in Singapore have praised the exhibition for exceeding expectations in the global recession. Despite many tyre businesses cutting international travel budgets, the three-day show still managed to attract a total of 2,985 visitors, just five per cent fewer than for the last staging in March 2007. Exhibitor numbers were up eight per cent at 135, although total exhibition floor space remained the same as companies opted for more economic stand design.

“Every show organiser wants to increase visitor numbers show-on-show but in these tough times we are very pleased that so many still decided to travel. We view that performance as more than acceptable taking everything into account,” said Paul Farrant, managing director of show organiser ECI International.

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Formula One Drivers Show Support for ‘Make Cars Green’ Campaign

Bridgestone Corporation says it will this year, as a global partner of the Fédération International de L’Automobile (FIA), continue its support and promotion of the global ‘Make Cars Green’ campaign. This announcement follows the first event of the 2009 Formula One season, the Australian Grand Prix, at which Bridgestone says the Formula One drivers showed their unanimous support for the campaign.

The Make Cars Green campaign aims to reduce the effect of cars on the environment by informing drivers of how to drive in a more environmentally friendly way. In partnership with automobile associations in countries worldwide, Bridgestone Corporation and the Bridgestone Group are calling on drivers to observe the “10 points for greener motoring”.

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Yokohama Withdraws from Aircraft Tyre Business

Yokohama Rubber has been manufactured and sold aircraft tyres, both new and retreaded, to the Japanese military and to Japanese domestic airlines since 1940, however the company has now decided to withdraw from this business. According to Yokohama, this decision was taken as aircraft tyre sales constitute only a minor part of Yokohama Rubber’s entire business, and do not offer strong future growth potential.

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Rolf Koerfer Elected Chairman of Conti Supervisory Board

The Supervisory Board of Continental AG has unanimously elected Rolf Koerfer its new chairman at its March 27 extraordinary meeting in Hanover, Germany. The 51-year-old thus succeeds Dr. Hubertus von Grünberg, who resigned on March 6.

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Delticom Reports Strong Growth in 2008

Prominent European online tyre dealer Delticom AG reports closing its 2008 fiscal year with a record result. Despite a disappointing year for the tyre industry and for tyre retailers, Delticom’s online business model has again exhibited strong growth. The company recorded significantly increased sales in nearly all of its more than 100 online shops in 35 countries. This is reflected in year-on-year rise in revenues in each quarter. In the fourth quarter alone, revenues of 84.0 million euros were achieved, up from 69.5 million euros in the corresponding quarter of 2007. For the whole year, Delticom increased revenues year-on-year by 20.2 per cent to 259.0 million euros. With these results, Delticom hit the upper end of the revenue targets the company released at the beginning of the last year.

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Fire Reported at Pirelli’s Burton Plant

Fire crews attended a callout to the Pirelli factory in Burton on the morning of March 30 after a blaze was reported at the site. Upon arriving at the premises at 7am, firefighters discovered a forklift truck on the first floor of the factory’s manufacturing plant was on fire. The fire was brought under control within about three quarters of an hour, but it is not yet known how much damage has been caused.

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Rösler: Tyre Competence is More Than the Product

The German Rösler Group becomes more and more a supplier of a fully integrated OTR tyre management which – together with its classical core competence of retreading – is particularly developing the marketing of consulting and maintenance services in its realm. The keyword ist “Rösler 360°”. Since the beginning of last year the company summarises all its different competencies, services and products under Rösler’s “360°” product which does not leave any cost factor or operational detail aside. Since very recently, the company from Dortmund in Western Germany has yet another tool under the tyre management. The “OTR Tyre Managmenent Software” will help to optimise costs and benefits of the OTR tyre management in general as it allows to collect (perhaps be PDA), transmit (even by satellite connection) and analyse and evaluate all the tyre data available.

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Nottingham Tyre Fire “Was Arson”

Firefighters were called to a fire in a unit used to store used tyres in Nottingham over the weekend. The firemen should have had no trouble finding the place, as this was the fourth time they have been called out to it in the past two weeks and to no fewer than 18 arson attacks over the past two years. The latest blaze was also arson, fire chiefs confirmed.

Craig Dooley, head of Nottinghamshire Fire and Rescue’s arson taskforce, said crews may have to let fires at the site burn, as the risk to firefighters was too great. 70 nearby residents were evacuated from their homes and allowed to return after five hours. Nottingham City Council said that it had made attempts to contact the owners to talk about making the site more secure, but these had so far proved unsuccessful.

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PCL to Pay ‘Prestigious’ Visit to Autopromotec 2009

When Sheffield-based PCL exhibits at Autopromotec the company says it will “provide the Italian automotive industry with a [prestigious] connection between its high quality air tools and top end performance, on Hall 22 Stand C8”. No the pneumatic specialists haven’t taken too much gas and air, PCL’s expert team are planning to introduce visitors to a new addition to its enhanced range of air tools – the Prestige Air Tool range.

The range comprises of 11 top end products which feature low vibration, low noise, ergonomic grip and higher performance. All products are manufactured from magnesium or other composite materials for a high quality, lightweight finish, and are ergonomically designed to help the user perform daily jobs more efficiently and in greater comfort. PCL also says it will show customers how nitrogen tyre inflation can maintain tyre pressure for longer, and provide extended tyre life, increased safety, higher fuel economy and superior handling – with demonstrations of Accura Mobile.

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MAK to Show Complete 2009 Wheel Range

MAK S.p.A. reports that the wheel production company is to show a wide range of new and existing products at Autopromotec 2009. First of all, the Brescia-based Italian producer will exhibit the brand-new MAK Mistral, the first directional wheel the company has launched on the market. The interesting thing about this five-spoke design is that while they have a straight structure and they are perpendicular to the external rim, “there is a diamond insert that points the to the design’s left side”. This visual illusion gives the wheel movement and lightness, making it appear slimmer.

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Remog Widens Range of Coated Weights

Remog S.p.A, has widened the range of wheel balancing weights it offers, following the formation of a new plant for the plastic coated treatment of its products with epoxy powders. This plant supports Remog’s other site, which has been operating since 2000, and already has the capacity to cover at 100 per cent of the body of the weight. The new coating technology means the weights can now withstand certified 500 hours to salt fog test.

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Italmatic Produces 51-inch Tyre Buffers

Retreading machinery maker, Italmatic, recently celebrated a success in the development of PL 80 buffers for OTR tyres. The latest technological milestone means the company’s latest (standard model) machinery is now capable reliably buffing OTR tyres in of up to 51 inches.

According to the company, Matic PL 80 makes “perfect buffing profiles both for hot retreading and for cold retreading,” but is likely to be particularly useful for retreaders who rely on both methods. The machine can be equipped also with a building group and grooving group on request.

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Infinity to Show 2 New Tyres

The focal point of Infinity’s 144 square metre stand at Autopromotec 2009 will be the brand’s two new products – the new INF 059 winter van tyre and the INF 200 on-road 4×4 tyre.

The INF 059 will be available from Autumn 2009 and will feature five products ranging in size from 14 to 16 inch diameters. According to company representatives, tt will complement the existing Infinity winter tyre range and will feature a distinctive asymmetric tread pattern and a “proven winter rubber compound.”

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“More Than Twenty” Interested in TyreGenics Plant

Following the news that a fire had caused some damage to the Welsh TyreGenics operation last Friday (27 March), a spokesperson for Begbies Traynor, administrators of TyreGenics got in touch with Tyres & Accessories to explain that the damage was sustained by a storage facility and not the plant itself, while also revealing that the administrator was confidant of finding a buyer for the business. The business announced that it had gone into administration earlier in January, 18 months after opening as a joint venture between Credential Environmental, BOC, FieldTurf Tarkett and RTI Cryogenics in July 2007. The £4 million recycling plant has a processing capacity of 80 tonnes per day.

The spokesperson stated last Friday: “Last night we were made aware that a large fire had started at a secure outdoor storage facility that TyreGenics leases from a local haulage firm around half a mile from the TyreGenics plant at Baglan Industrial Estate. There were around 2,500 one tonne bags of recycled rubber crumb at the facility and all of this product appears to have been lost to the fire, the cause of which is being investigated by the police. Although the fire produced large amounts of thick black smoke, the fumes were not toxic.”

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