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Stapleton’s Launches Improved Nexen Dealer Programme

Stapleton’s, one of the largest UK passenger car tyre wholesalers has launched a revised Nexen Key Dealer Programme. The scheme, aimed to reward valued customers, includes benefits available to those registered onto the programme. Members will benefit from a personalised reward scheme, can enjoy preferential purchasing prices, in store support in the form of leaflets and posters, branded merchandise and lifetime guarantees on products. Each member will also receive a dealer reference catalogue.

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Goodyear to Compensate Women for Hiring Policy

Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. has agreed to pay out US$925,000 in compensation to women who were denied employment as tyre makers at the company’s factory in Virginia. Details of this payment were made by the US Labor Department on January 16, after an administrative law judge approved a consent decree to resolve a lawsuit filed by approximately 800 women denied jobs at the Danville, Virginia plant in the late 1990s.

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Maywood Appoints New National Account Manager

Maywood Equipment Group has appointed Malcolm Scott as National Account Manager. Scott will be based at the company’s head office in Maidstone. In recent years he has held senior positions within Brown Brothers, Garage Equipment Services and Unipart Automotive. “I am delighted to have joined Maywood to develop their National Account business. Maywood is a very progressive and growing lift supplier and has outstanding products including the world famous Hofmann range of two post lifts. I am really looking forward to the challenge,” Scott commented.

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Bridgestone Recruiting for Hungarian Factory

Bridgestone Europe has begun recruiting employees for its new factory in Tatabánya, 35 miles west of Budapest. The facility is scheduled to commence trial runs and then volume production in the second half of 2007, following assembly of plant machinery in the spring.
The factory was built with the proceeds of a £125 million investment, and will supply Bridgestone’s European markets. An anticipated 8,000 passenger car and light truck tyres per day will be produced in Tatabánya from 2009 onwards.

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Firestone Names Young Farmer of the Year

This year’s Firestone Young Farmer of the Year Award has gone to 30-year old Cambridgeshire man James Peck. Peck, of Scotland Farm in Dry Drayton, received this distinction from the tyre maker at a ceremony held at the Grosvenor House in London late last year. He was awarded his trophy by BBC TV presenter Fiona Bruce and Barry Coleman, Firestone’s marketing manager.

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Volkswagen Racing with Hankook

Global tyre major Hankook is throwing its weight behind the Volkswagen Racing Cup for the second year running, acting as a principal sponsor for the manufacturer-backed saloon racing series. The Volkswagen Racing Cup, now in its seventh season, is arguably one of the most successful championships of its type in the UK.

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Apollo Wins Two Awards

Apollo Tyre’s new UHP Aspire has been voted Automotive Product of the Year by NDTV Profit and Car India magazine. The W-speed rated tyre – safe to up to 270km/h – was awarded this distinction by India’s leading business television channel and the popular car magazine at a function in Mumbai attended by leading representatives of India’s automotive industry.

At a separate awards ceremony, this time in New Delhi, Apollo was awarded a commendation for its road safety campaigns. Throughout the past year Apollo has undertaken to increase road safety awareness by highlighting correct tyre maintenance procedure. The commendation was given by the Institute of Road Traffic Education as part of their 2006 awards programme, and Apollo was the only commercial entity, alongside seven individuals and non-profit groups, to be granted such a distinction. Apollo intends to continue its road safety programmes in 2007.

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Conti Honoured by GM at Detroit Show

At a ceremony during the North American International Auto Show General Motors praised Continental Automotive Systems for their overall excellence in supporting GM’s product.
Bo Andersson, GM’s vice president of Global Purchasing and Supply, said “GM strives to build the best cars and trucks in the world, and the leadership and employees of Continental Automotive Systems represent what it takes to make GM’s products successful.”

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Startup Hopeful of TMPS Success

Very few people have heard of EoPlex, but this startup company in Redwood city USA hopes to make their mark on the tyre world.

The company have come up with a way of ‘printing’ three-dimensional metal and ceramic objects. The process involves a special ink and ultraviolet light. The exact ingredients of the ink used remains a closely guarded secret, but the EoPlex technique enables the manufacture of items far too small to be made by conventional means.

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PCL Generates Interest at SEMA

Pneumatics Components Ltd (PCL) has generated a fair amount of global interest at the SEMA show, particularly from US companies. The Sheffield based designer, manufacturer and marketer of tyre inflation technology has benefited from an increased awareness of the importance in terms of safety and economic benefits of guaranteeing the accuracy of air pressure delivered to tyres.

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Michelin OE for Russian Market Focus

Michelin has signed the first OE deal for its Davydovo plant near Moscow. The plant, which opened in the summer of 2004, will produce two sizes of tyre as original equipment for models of the Ford Focus built in Ford’s Vsevolozhsk factory near St Petersburg.

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Tip Top Launches Run-Flat Repair Kit

Less than a week after ATS Euromaster launched a national run-flat repair service, Rema Tip-Top has introduced a tyre repair kit specifically designed for the permanent repair of tread injuries to run-flat tyres. According to the company, extensive tests carried out by the German certification body TÜV confirmed the durability of the Rema Tip-Top Minicombi repair system when repairing run-flat tyres. The Minicombi tyre repair procedure (certificate 02109811 002) is designed to repair run-flats with either reinforced sidewalls or support rings without compromising safety.

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Michelin Launches Pilot Road 2

Michelin Tyre plc has launched the Pilot Road 2, unveiling its latest dual compound offering at the Motorcycle Trade Expo at Stoneleigh park. The French manufacturer claims that its latest product means riders no longer have to compromise between wet grip and tread life. Michelin hopes results of tests conducted by CERM will help convince retailers and the motorcycle riding public of this.

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Tyremakers Take Note

According to automotive industry analysts, during 2006 China overtook Japan to become the world’s second largest market for cars. During 2006 7.2 million vehicles were sold in China, a 25.1 per cent increase on the previous year’s sales. Japan, now ranked number three, sold a mere 5.7 million vehicles in comparison.

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Goodyear US Starting Pay Reduced to $13 an Hour

Under the new labour agreement to emerge in the wake of the USW strike, Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. will cut starting pay for newly hired workers in the U.S. by 35 per cent to US$13 per hour.

Chief Executive Officer Robert Keegan gave details the new wage rate in a conference call, Goodyear’s first discussion of the contract since the 29 December announcement that the United Steelworkers union members had given their approval.

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