
Live announcements scheduled for latest Michelin-starred restaurants
The latest restaurants to be awarded new Michelin Stars will be revealed at a live event for the first time in Great Britain and Ireland. The October presentation will coincide with the publication of the Michelin Guide Great Britain and Ireland 2017 and it is expected to attract top chefs and key food industry figures
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Nebula Systems call on independent garages to ‘connect with the future’
Nebula Systems says independent garages can “connect with the future of diagnostics” by employing its new MECH5 diagnostics system. MECH5 is a new cloud-based vehicle data analytics platform that can help garages access the wealth of data within the ECUs of modern vehicles. The system is due to be launched commercially in September.
Continue ReadingMRF sales steady, income up 2.3%
India’s MRF Ltd. has reported stable sales for the three months to 30 June 2016. Net income during the quarter amounted to Rs 34.82 billion (£402.22 million), up from Rs 34.77 a year earlier. Standalone net profit rose 2.3 per cent to Rs 4.91 billion (£56.72 million).
Continue ReadingStrong Q2 result lifts Delticom’s bottom line for H1 2016
Online tyre retailer Delticom has profited from the same cold weather that held sales back earlier in the year, at least to an extent. Reporting on its financial performance in the second quarter of 2016, the company noted that low temperatures prompted European motorists to delay fitting summer tyres to their vehicles until after Easter, and while the delayed switch to summer tyres helped boost Q2 2016 sales by 22.0 per cent year-on-year to €169.3 million, the company suggests that dealers sold almost five per cent fewer replacement car tyres to consumers during the first half of the year. Sales for the first six months of 2016 were up 9.9 per cent to €275.1 million.
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Rear view mirrors on the way out?
Japan has just approved a law allowing rear-facing cameras to replace mirrors on cars. Could this spell the end for car mirrors?
Continue ReadingDangerous delays to recall rectification, says report
The vast majority of vehicles subject to recall have not yet gone in for repair, which means there are millions of potentially dangerous cars on the road.
Continue ReadingAlliance Automotive Group agrees to buy Lookers Parts Division
For many years now, the Parts Division (FPS, Apec and BTN) has been an independent division of Lookers PLC, the motor retail group, and has been well supported by them in serving the automotive aftermarket in the UK.
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TyreSafe awarded full charity status
TyreSafe has been awarded full charity status. The organisation, in its tenth anniversary year, states this milestone is a major boost to its tyre safety awareness campaign. It adds that attaining this status increases the potential for TyreSafe to work with a wider range of organisations by underlining its non-commercial and not-for-profit credentials.
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Rosava adds larger sizes to Solazo S Plus range
The passenger car tyre portfolio offered by Ukrainian tyre maker PJSC Rosava has expanded to include larger rim diameter fitments. The first tyre to go beyond the company’s traditional 13 to 16-inch size range, was a size 225/45R17 Premiorri Solazo S Plus. This was produced on 3 August and presented by Rosava’s technical director Igor Logvynenko and Aleksandr Momotyuk, head of the Belaya Tserkov plant’s vulcanisation operation, to PJSC Rosava general director Aleksandr Daliba. Other newly-introduced Solazo S Plus sizes include 215/55R17, 205/50R17, 235/60R18 and 265/60R18, and Rosava reports that these will be joined by a 215/55R17 fitment by the end of this month.
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Continental: evo win reiterates our leading position for safety
Last year, Continental celebrated a second consecutive victory for its ContiSportContact 5 in evo magazine’s annual summer tyre test. Since that time the back-to-back winner has been superseded by the SportContact 6, and Continental’s new generation rubber is proving a chip off the old block. Evo’s 2016 test of nine size 235/35 R19 summer tyres finished with the SportContact 6 gaining top points in the dry and wet braking tests, a result that helped it stave off strong competition, including wet handling category winner the Yokohama Advan Sport V105, to secure overall first place.
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SD-International details winter range
SD-International has a versatile range of winter patterns in its private Zeta, Pace and Maxtrek brand portfolio. Both the Pace and Zeta brands offer three Antartica branded patterns, all incorporating a high-silica compound, multi-flat profile and a wide tread arrangement.
Continue ReadingBKT offers special sprayer line-up
BKT is offering a specialist sprayer-orientated agri-tyre line-up. Agrimax Spargo is a radial tire designed by BKT developing a new concept of VF technology. Specifically developed for spraying applications and row crops, it can stand heavier loads while maintaining the same inflation pressure compared to a standard tyre of the same size. Four sizes currently available on the market are four: VF 380/85 R 38, VF 380/90 R 46, VF 380/105 R 50 and VF 420/95 R 50.
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Firenza Nu Ice range offers studded and unstudded patterns for Europe
Singapore’s Firenza brand offers two Nu Ice winter tyre patterns in both studless and studdable options. Both patterns comply with current European tyre regulations.
Continue ReadingAlliance: Yardmaster is ‘king of forklift tyres’
Alliance Tire Group is marketing the Galaxy Yardmaster SDS as the ‘king of forklift tyres’. Developed and designed for warehouse operations, all kinds of loading and unloading work, shop-floor as well as port and yard operations, the Galaxy Yardmaster SDS is said to be “a true workhorse for long and demanding tasks”.
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New imagery for Evergreen Tyres
Evergreen Tyres has refreshed its corporate imagery, six years after entering the UK market. The brand has recently introduced five new patterns to its Dyna range.
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