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Reddy named Apollo Tyres’ APMEA head of supply chain

Career Tracks

Apollo Tyres has appointed Rajasekhara Reddy as Group Head, Supply Chain for its Asia Pacific, Middle East & Africa (APMEA) region. In his new role, Reddy leads the regional SCM team and takes responsibility for providing leadership and direction to the regional SCM function.

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  1. Apollo Tyres aiming for “dominance” in India’s TBR segment
  2. Apollo Tyres becomes an Indian Super League official partner
  3. Apollo Tyres: Second Indian football sponsorship
  4. JD Power survey confirms Apollo Tyres’ strength in India’s small car segment
7th November 2022/by Stephen

No shortage of advice for new PM

Legislation, UK News

Following Prime Minster Rishi Sunak’s Cabinet reshuffle, on Wednesday 26 October, NFDA has written to the new Secretary of States for key Cabinet positions, highlighting the principal challenges the automotive industry is currently facing. Sue Robinson, chief executive of the National Franchised Dealers Association (NFDA) which represents car and commercial retailers in the UK commented: “NFDA is the leading figure for automotive retailers in the UK and it is important we maintain our close relationship with Government in order to effectively voice the issues affecting our members. Reaching out to Government’s new ministers, highlighting the key issues currently impacting our sector, will give us a head start in addressing these issues and levelling up our industry.”  

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  1. Price, access to charging, range the barriers to electric vehicle purchases – survey
  2. NFDA welcomes EV charging infrastructure investment
  3. NFDA urges government to enhance alternative fuel vehicle grants
  4. NFDA urges government to provide energy support to businesses
27th October 2022/by Peter Gardner

Continental “working at full speed” to restructure rubber supply chains

Company News, International News

The goal at Continental is to exclusively obtain natural rubber for its tyres from responsible sources as of 2030. Confirmation of responsible sourcing is essential to natural rubber’s status as a sustainable raw material, and gaining this confirmation requires traceability within the supply chain. Although completely seamless traceability is currently technically impossible, Continental says it is “working at full speed” on a blueprint for the sustainable and responsible structuring of natural rubber supply chains.

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  1. Continental purchasing rubber via HeveaConnect
  2. Continental debuts responsibly sourced tyres – 100% of range by 2030
  3. Continental grows commitment to rubber supply chain sustainability
  4. Continental gains 4th consecutive top CDP rating
30th September 2022/by Stephen

IRSG collaborates to support research on rubber sustainability

International News

The International Rubber Study Group (IRSG) believes there are “no sustainable alternatives” to natural rubber. In order to gain a greater understanding of how climate change economically and socially impacts this industry, IRSG has enhanced its collaboration with the Singapore Agri-Food Lab (SAIL) at Nanyang Technological University (NTU). This collaboration may expand in future to focus on sustainability in the supply chain beyond the plantation.

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  1. GPSRNR policy framework drives commitment to sustainable rubber sourcing
  2. Continental purchasing rubber via HeveaConnect
  3. Project TREE: A blockchain-driven, more sustainable rubber supply chain
  4. Sri Lanka Plastics & Rubber Institute latex webinar announced
9th September 2022/by Stephen

Continental debuts responsibly sourced tyres – 100% of range by 2030

Company News, International News

Mountain bike tyres from the Continental Gravity range have become the first products to feature responsibly sourced natural rubber from a project aimed at establishing sustainable natural rubber supply chains. Continental aims to achieve 100 per cent sustainable supply chains by 2050 at the latest, but is going one step further when it comes to natural rubber and intends to cover its entire demand exclusively through responsible sources by as soon as 2030.

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  1. Continental gains 4th consecutive top CDP rating
  2. Continental grows commitment to rubber supply chain sustainability
  3. Continental codeveloping invisible rubber marking technology
  4. Continental purchasing rubber via HeveaConnect
25th August 2022/by Stephen

Maxion Wheels joins ‘responsible’ aluminium, steel organisations

Company News

Maxion Wheels has joined non-profit bodies the Aluminium Stewardship Initiative (ASI) and ResponsibleSteel, and claims as such to be the first wheel manufacturer to become a member of these organisations committed to the responsible sourcing, production and use of aluminium and steel.

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  1. Construction to begin on new Maxion Wheels plant in India
  2. Groundbreaking held for Maxion-Dongfeng aluminium wheel plant
  3. Materials, machinery suppliers feature strongly in Pirelli Supplier Awards
  4. Continental: Lower income despite strong tyre business in Q1 2022
22nd August 2022/by Stephen

ATD appoints chief supply chain officer

Career Tracks, International News

US and Canadian wholesaler American Tire Distributors, Inc. (ATD) has expanded its leadership team with the addition of Moid Alwy as chief supply chain officer. In this role, Alwy will oversee a supply chain that ATD describes as “sprawling” and evolve the vision and strategy for the supply chain’s function and innovation.

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  1. ATD chief Berry to retire
  2. Tire Pros adds 7 branches in USA
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18th August 2022/by Stephen

Continental: Lower income despite strong tyre business in Q1 2022

Company News

Announcing its financial results for the first quarter of 2022, tyre maker and automotive technology firm Continental states that it “performed well” during the period despite “an increasingly turbulent market environment.” It describes its Q1 2022 tyre business as “strong.”

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  1. A “good result” – Continental returns to the black in 2021
  2. Michelin: YTD sales up 15.6% to €17.2 billion
  3. Continental: Components supply issues hit Q3 2021 sales & earnings
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11th May 2022/by Stephen

Continental gains 4th consecutive top CDP rating

Company News

Four in a row – For 2021, the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) has once again awarded Continental the highest grade in its Supplier Engagement rating. This makes Continental one of the eight per cent of companies awarded 2021 leadership status by the international non-profit organisation for supplier commitment to climate change.

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  1. Continental codeveloping invisible rubber marking technology
  2. Rubber extraction unit installed in Continental’s Taraxagum lab
  3. Sustainability award for Continental’s dandelion rubber tyres
  4. Continental purchasing rubber via HeveaConnect
11th March 2022/by Stephen

Hankook participating in Project TREE

Company News, UK News

Project TREE is the first attempt to establish natural rubber traceability using blockchain, and the UK is the first market where consumers can buy tyres containing verifiable sustainable rubber. Following the launch of traceable Pirelli tyres earlier this month, Hankook Tire & Technology is now distributing tyres manufactured through the project.

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  4. Hankook Tire gains ISCC PLUS certification
22nd December 2021/by Stephen

Continental purchasing rubber via HeveaConnect

Company News, International News

With immediate effect, tyre maker Continental will handle a portion of its natural rubber purchasing through HeveaConnect, a digital trading platform designed to ensure greater transparency and sustainability in the natural rubber supply chain. Reporting this new arrangement, Continental’s Dr Andrea Appel explains that the goal is to procure all materials from “responsible sources,” and that the key to achieving this “lies in innovative technologies and digitalisation, which can make a decisive contribution to transparency in complex supply chains.”

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  2. GPSRNR policy framework drives commitment to sustainable rubber sourcing
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  4. Continental grows commitment to rubber supply chain sustainability
17th December 2021/by Stephen

Materials, machinery suppliers feature strongly in Pirelli Supplier Awards

Company News

Every year, Pirelli awards just nine of the more than 14,000 suppliers throughout its global chain for distinguishing themselves in making the tyre maker’s supply chain even more sustainable, innovative and of the highest possible quality. Announcing the recipients of its 2021 Supplier Awards, Pirelli says the main selection criterion was care for the environment through an increasingly sustainable supply chain – with lower CO2 emissions, high quality, innovation, speed and global presence.

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  1. Project TREE: A blockchain-driven, more sustainable rubber supply chain
  2. Teijin Aramid wins 2014 Pirelli supplier award
  3. Michelin and Pirelli lead in rubber sustainability – Context Group
  4. Pirelli only Global Compact LEAD in Automobiles & Parts sector
2nd December 2021/by Stephen

Project TREE: A blockchain-driven, more sustainable rubber supply chain

Company News, UK News

Japan’s Itochu Corporation announced today the commercial launch of Project TREE, an initiative that uses a blockchain-based traceability system to ensure the sustainability and traceability of natural rubber. Partners participating in the Project include Itochu subsidiaries and tyre manufacturers, and the UK will be the first market to benefit.

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  1. Deforestation-free rubber: Pirelli, BMW working with BirdLife International
  2. GPSRNR policy framework drives commitment to sustainable rubber sourcing
  3. ETEL announces senior promotions, new management team
  4. Further tyre makers publish GPSNR-aligned rubber procurement policies
1st December 2021/by Stephen

Continental codeveloping invisible rubber marking technology

Company News

Tyre maker Continental and Security Matters, an Australian company focused on the digitisation of physical objects in the blockchain, are collaborating to develop and test a marker technology for natural rubber. The two companies have entered into an agreement covering this work.

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  1. Continental grows commitment to rubber supply chain sustainability
  2. Rubberway: Michelin & Continental team up for rubber supply chain JV
  3. Sustainability award for Continental’s dandelion rubber tyres
  4. Schaeffler/Conti Saga – ‘Over By Christmas’?
23rd September 2021/by Stephen

STARCO talks strategy amidst the global container crisis

Company News

Wheel manufacturer and solutions provider STARCO has commented on the current disruptions to global supply chains and outlined its strategy for combatting these.

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22nd September 2021/by Stephen
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