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Dunlop Aircraft Tyres Welcomes Duke to Centenary Celebrations

Birmingham-based Dunlop Aircraft Tyres had a royal visitor today (7 June) when the company welcomed HRH The Duke of York to its head office and manufacturing site in Erdington. The company is celebrating its centenary this year. Prince Andrew toured the company’s offices, factory and testing facility, where new products are being developed for aircraft including the Embraer E-Jets family, the Airbus A320, the Eurofighter and Airbus Military A400M transport aircraft.

7th June 2010/by Tyrepress Editors

Bombardier Selects Dunlop for CRJ1000 Aircraft

Dunlop Aircraft Tyres has been selected by Bombardier to supply tyres for the new 100-seat CRJ1000 Next Gen regional jet. The aircraft has 45 firm orders with carriers including Adria Airways and Brit Air. Dunlop Aircraft Tyres, one of two approved suppliers for the CRJ1000, will manufacture and retread the tyres at its facility in Birmingham, UK.

28th May 2010/by Tyrepress Editors

Dunlop Aircraft Tyres offers Increased FOD Resistance

Military aircraft operators could soon benefit from new foreign object damage (FOD) resistance tyre technology that has been developed by Dunlop Aircraft Tyres and being employed for the first time on the new Airbus Military A400M. The tyres feature the superior sidewall FOD resistance of bias tyres, which are more suited to operations from semi and unprepared airstrips, as well as what Dunlop Aircraft Tyres describes as “advanced materials”, which are designed to give improved protection in the tread area.

7th April 2010/by Tyrepress Editors

3-Year Contract Furthers Dunlop Aircraft Tyres’ Bmibaby Supply

Exclusive supply of nose wheel and main wheel tyres to the Boeing 737-300 and 737-500 fleet operated by low-cost airline bmibaby is to be carried out by Dunlop Aircraft Tyres following the signing of a three-year contract between the Birmingham based tyre manufacturer and its long-standing customer. The agreement, which Dunlop Aircraft Tyres says is worth more than a million pounds, covers the supply of both new and retreaded aviation tyres to the British Midland Limited subsidiary.

9th March 2010/by Tyrepress Editors

Yokohama Aero Tyre Equipment Heading to UK Following DATL Acquisition

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Testing and manufacturing equipment made available following Yokohama Rubber’s decision to withdraw from the aircraft tyre from the aircraft business has been acquired by Dunlop Aircraft Tyres. The Birmingham based manufacturer has signed an agreement to purchase several pieces of radial and crossply tyre manufacturing equipment including an additional dynamometer. These products should enable Dunlop Aircraft Tyres to expand manufacturing capacity and enable the company to offer new products, such as radial main tyres for the Boeing 777.

26th February 2010/by Tyrepress Editors

Dunlop Aircraft Tyres Signs First China Agreement

A three-year deal for the supply of bias tyres will see Taiwan based Mandarin Airlines become the first customer to utilise Dunlop Aircraft tyres’ new distribution and retreading facility in China. Dunlop Taikoo (Jinjiang) Aircraft Tyres Company Limited will supply tyres for the airline’s fleet of eight E-190/195 twin-engine medium range jets.

8th February 2010/by Tyrepress Editors

Dunlop Aircraft Opens Chinese Retread Plant

Dunlop Aircraft Tyres has opened its new retread and distribution facility in China. The facility, operating as Dunlop Taikoo (Jinjiang) Aircraft Tyres Company Limited, is a joint venture with Hong Kong Aircraft Engineering Company Limited (HAECO) (28 per cent) and Taikoo (Xiamen) Aircraft Engineering Company Limited (TAECO) (9 per cent). Based in Jinjiang, Fujian Province, the operation has full site and product approval from the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC). The site has also received full repair-station approval from EASA. In addition to the retreading of aircraft tyres, the facility will support customers in Asia Pacific by distributing new tyres that have been made at Dunlop Aircraft Tyres’ manufacturing site in Birmingham, UK.

18th November 2009/by Tyrepress Editors

Dunlop Aircraft Tyres Looks for Centenary Info

Next year Birmingham-based Dunlop Aircraft Tyres will celebrate its centenary and, with this in mind the company, it’s looking for help to bring back memories of its history. Dunlop Aircraft Tyres will celebrate its centenary with the publication of a book about the great history of the company. “Our book will be one of the focal points of our centenary celebrations,” said Dunlop Aircraft Tyres’ chairman, Ian Edmondson.

“To make sure that we capture everything from our great history, we are looking for people to help with memories, information or contacts and photographs that we can include – either about the firm itself or its place historically within the larger Dunlop/BTR organisation.

24th September 2009/by Tyrepress Editors

Dunlop Aircraft Tyres Receives Funding for Modelling Project

A research project utilising modelling technology to reduce the cost and time involved in aircraft tyre development has landed Dunlop Aircraft Tyres £120,000 in funding from the Midlands Aerospace Alliance (MAA). This project, co-funded by the aircraft tyre manufacturer, is being conducted together with the University of Birmingham’s School of Mechanical Engineering.

In addition to identifying ways in which modelling can improve the tyre design process and thus bring products to market quicker, the project gives airframe, landing gear and wheel and brake manufacturers will have the opportunity to save costs by utilising output from the supply chain partnership project to improve aircraft and landing gear system modelling and simulation.

1st July 2009/by Tyrepress Editors

Dunlop Aircraft Tyres OE for Latest Bombardier Regional Jet

Aeroplane manufacturer Bombardier has selected Dunlop Aircraft Tyres as original equipment supplier for its new 100-seat CRJ1000 Next Gen regional jet. Dunlop Aircraft tyres, one of two approved suppliers for the CRJ1000, will manufacture and retread the tyres at its facility in Birmingham – a site the company notes is ideally located to provide excellent support for the jet’s initial customers.

According to Dunlop Aircraft Tyres, the deal to supply CRJ1000 nose and main wheel tyres builds on its long-standing relationship with Bombardier. This includes supplying the entire Dash 8 range and, under a supplemental type certificate (STC), all other CRJ variants. The CRJ is, comments the tyre maker, the best-selling family of regional jets; more than 1,500 have already been delivered.

23rd June 2009/by Tyrepress Editors

Dunlop Aircraft Appoints China Plant Head

Dunlop Taikoo (Jinjiang) Aircraft Tyres Company has appointed KK Chan as general manager of its new aircraft retreading and new tyre distribution facility in China. The company is a joint venture with Birmingham-based Dunlop Aircraft Tyres, HAECO (Hong Kong Aircraft Engineering Company) and TAECO (Taikoo (Xiamen) Aircraft Engineering Company). Based in Jinjiang, Fujian Province, the company’s new facility is already distributing new tyres throughout the Asia Pacific region and is reportedly going through the approvals process to start retreading.

19th May 2009/by Tyrepress Editors

Dunlop Aircraft Tyres to Supply Fast Growing Turkish Carrier

The decision by Pegasus, Turkey’s fastest growing airline, to double its fleet with the purchase of 24 new Boeing 737-800 aircraft has been well received at Dunlop Aircraft Tyres. The Birmingham based operation has been selected to supply tyres for the new airliners.

“The news that Pegasus Airlines is doubling the size of its Boeing 737-800 fleet is positive for the company and our workforce in Birmingham,” said Dunlop Aircraft Tyres’ chairman, Ian Edmondson. “Tyres made at our site in Erdington are among those fitted to the fleet by a company in Turkey that carries out maintenance, repair and overhaul to the aircraft.”

26th September 2008/by Tyrepress Editors

Dunlop Aircraft Tyres Announces New Research Head

Dr Wei Ding has been unveiled as the newly created head of research at Dunlop Aircraft Tyres. He will develop and implement the forthcoming research strategy for the manufacturer, reporting to Martin Pye, the Birmingham-based tyre maker’s technical director.

Wei arrives at Dunlop from his position as project manager for tyre research and team leader for tyre and brake modelling and simulation at Airbus. His employment in the new position is directly related to the company’s expansion strategy, states chairman Ian Edmondson: “We are looking to get closer to the airframe constructors and Wei’s background will mean that we are better placed to develop new products that meet their future needs.”

Dr Wei has been a research fellow at the Interdisciplinary Research Centre in Materials Processing, after which he worked as a senior engineer in the automotive tyre industry. He is a chartered engineer, and his latest task will be to oversee growth, as Dunlop seeks to consolidate and improve its position in the aeronautical industry as the sole specialist aircraft tyre manufacturer.

28th August 2008/by Tyrepress Editors

Dunlop Aircraft Workers Back in China After Birmingham Training

The first new recruits at Dunlop Aircraft Tyres’ new China retreading operation have travelled back to the People’s Republic after completing a training course in Birmingham. The China-based team, including six tyre production workers and a supervisor, completed the six-month course in preparation for the opening of the Dunlop Aircraft Tyres’ new Jinjiang facility.

13th August 2008/by Tyrepress Editors

Dunlop Reveals New Boeing Fitment

Currently exhibiting at the Farnborough Airshow 2008, which runs until Sunday, Dunlop Aircraft Tyres has displayed its three new tyres, approved in March for the new Boeing 737NG, alongside two new main gear bias cross-ply tyres and a new radial-ply nose gear tyre.

Aviation news sources have noted that the massive backlog of orders for Boeing’s latest plane – not to mention the 2,500 already in service – means that Dunlop’s latest creations have enabled the company to improve its share in the medium-haul market sector.

16th July 2008/by Tyrepress Editors