Goodyear Farm Tires has almost doubled the warehousing space at one of its key European sites, adding more than 1,500 square feet / 140m₂ to the capacity of its Titan France headquarters in Flers, Normandy. The off-highway tyre specialist anticipates that a greater capacity will reduce both transit times to major European cities and delivery lead times to farmers.
Anyone who has followed the career of Maurice “The Grizz” Taylor Jr over the years won’t be in the least surprised that the firm he founded has called attention to its strengths in light of the Trump tariffs. In a statement, Titan International, Inc. “proudly highlights” its “extensive domestic manufacturing capabilities and skilled workforce” at a time when “industries around the world begin to adapt to new tariff policy.”
Cheshire farming family Dennis and Rachael Hughes, along with their children Andrew Rutter and Emma Jones, are the latest guests on Goodyear Farm Tires’ Talking Crop podcast. The family runs Clayhanger Hall Farm between Crewe and Haslington, which has been owned by their family since 1923. They are the third UK family to feature the new podcast, launched by Goodyear Farm Tires to celebrate farming families across the UK.
Goodyear Farm Tires’ new podcast series on farming families in the UK has hosted Becci Berry and her daughters, Jaz and Martha, in its second episode. Berry is a familiar figure in the British farming industry, as a trustee of The Institute For Agriculture and Horticulture. She took on Brimstone Farm, a 365-ha mixed farm on the Oxfordshire/Wiltshire borders, in 2010 after the passing of her husband Richard following a battle with bowel cancer. Formerly an award-winning dairy farmer, she rears a herd of 200 native beef cattle and manages various arable operations. The farm is in mixed rotation and, since selling the dairy herd three years ago, Berry has focused on introducing new environmental schemes. Approximately 200-ha of Brimstone Farm is tenanted from the National Trust.
Goodyear Farm Tires is Talking Crop and intends to do so on a regular basis. The agricultural tyre brand debuted its new podcast today, with the inaugural episode shedding light on what happens when a police officer and a beauty salon owner decide to take over a 200-acre farm.
Goodyear Farm Tires has shared “ambitious plans” to expand its product range in 2025. The Titan International business intends to address the ever-changing demands of the agricultural sector by extending availability for its exclusive Low Sidewall Technology (LSW). The company’s dedicated European Development Centre in France is playing a key role in plans to enhance the LSW portfolio with further sizes over the next 12 months, and has also developed further products that build on the new radial tyre sizes recently brought to the market.
Goodyear Farm Tires has been confirmed as a prime sponsor of one of the UK’s biggest vintage tractor shows. The Newark Vintage Tractor and Heritage Show takes place on November 9 and 10 with more than 1,000 vintage tractors, implements, horticultural machinery and commercial vehicles expected to feature.
Goodyear Farm Tires will welcome speciality tyre and wheel manufacturer Carlstar to Hall 6.1, Stand CO19 at The Tire in Cologne next week. Titan International, the parent company of Goodyear Farm Tires in North America and Europe after it bought the licence for both markets around a decade ago, recently completed its acquisition of Carlstar Group in a $296 million purchase. Carlstar representatives will present the brand’s product range to visitors to The Tire Cologne, while Goodyear Farm Tires will display its own flagship products, between 4 and 6 June.
Goodyear Farm Tires will shine the spotlight on its growing prominence in the European agricultural market and further expand its dealer partner network at The Tire in Cologne this June. During the three-day show, Goodyear Farm Tires display its innovative and flagship Low Sidewall (LSW) range, fresh from opening a new Technology Development Centre in France in April that makes the products more accessible to the European market.
Goodyear Farm Tires has created a new Low Sidewall Technology Development Centre in France to “provide its UK and European …customers with improved access to one of the most innovative products on the market”, according to the company. The French HQ of Titan International – which re-introduced Goodyear Farm Tires to the European market in 2019 – has been scheduled to begin the manufacturing and customisation of wheels for the exclusive LSW wheel and tyre assemblies at the start of April. Previously, all production and assembly of LSW products took place in the USA.
Polish tyre wholesaler Latex and its subsidiary Hurtopony have taken on distribution of the Goodyear Farm Tire range. The four main centres in Ruda Slaska, Opole, Bydgoszcz and Sosnowiec will supply tyres to the Latex national network.
Goodyear Farm Tires will unveil a new product and display its exclusive Low Sidewall range when it heads to Germany for Agritechnica next week. During the show, Goodyear Farm Tires will unveil its new LW Waffle Wheel, which is adjustable to up to eight different track positions (depending on crop row widths) and allows tyres to seat correctly at lower pressures, improving safety.
Ernst & Young LLP (EY US) has named Titan International’s Paul Reitz a winner of its Entrepreneur Of The Year 2023 Midwest Award. The chief executive officer considers this not only an honour on a personal level, but also “testament to the fact” that the tyre maker has “an exceptional team in place.”
Goodyear Farm Tires has signed up as a key partner to this year’s British Farming Awards. The Goodyear agricultural brand, produced by under license by Titan International, is sponsoring the Family Farming Business of the Year category.
Titan International has evolved the agricultural tyre technology seen in Increased Flexion (IF) and Very High Flexion (VF) tyres and has combining this with conventional tyre construction to create what it says is a “universal solution” for tyre replacements. It is introducing this Ultimate Flex Technology (UFT) at the Farm Progress 2022 show in the USA next week.
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