Wheels
The Borbet wheel factory in Solingen, Germany will close on 31 December 2022. The wheel manufacturer told its workforce on Monday 28 November at a works meeting. Around 600 employees are affected. All previous attempts to find an economically viable future for the location had failed. A transfer company will be set up.
After a two-year absence due to the pandemic, the Ronal Group is returning to the Essen Motor Show to present both its Ronal and Speedline Corse brands of wheels. In addition new products from these brands, visitors will see the Energy Wheel concept, the exactly meaning of which is being revealed on-show.
Essen Motor Show 2022 takes place from 3-11 December. As in every other year, the visitors can vote for their favourite wheel in the associated World Wheel Award 2023. The awards see wheel manufacturers with the most votes make it to the final round which is an online voting at VAU-MAX.de. There, “the most beautiful and elegant wheel” becomes the winner of the World Wheel Award 2023.
moveero has appointed Hugo Burgers as its new Chief Executive Officer (CEO), effective 1 December 2022. Burgers joined moveero in September 2021 with a senior level background from across the off-highway-industry, including Yokohama Off-Highway Tires, Warn Industries and John Deere.
Off-road performance and rally specialist Bowler Motors has introduced a new wheel for the latest generation Land Rover Defender. Introducing the 20” Challenge Performance Wheel, Bowler points out that it was developed by the same engineering team that introduced the 2022 Bowler Rally Car and builds on the inherent toughness and capability of Defender.
Off-highway wheel and hub maker, moveero, has launched a brand-new website (moveero.com), designed to help customers quickly and easily identify the best match for their “specific application and machine requirements”. According to the company, the website has been designed to make “product selection and comparison a straightforward process”.
According to off-highway wheels and hub systems manufacturer moveero, its high-speed Profi-Flex tractor wheel addresses the issues of runout that can occur on manually adjustable track wheels used on high-speed applications. The company says this results in high levels of comfort, ride quality and tractor performance.
Thanks to its delivery of low-CO2 steel wheel options to commercial vehicle manufacturers and fleets, Maxion Wheels says it is “ahead of the curve on carbon footprint savings.” But the world’s largest wheel manufacturer anticipates that by 2025, it will be able to offer steel commercial vehicle wheels with a cradle-to-gate carbon footprint more than 65 per cent lower than current wheels.
Although Maxion Wheels is setting up a new facility for manufacturing forged aluminium commercial vehicle wheels, its traditional strength is steel wheels. Expansions in Turkey and Brazil have increased the company’s global capacity for these products to ten million pieces annually, and Maxion has now debuted what it claims is “Europe’s lightest mass-produced steel truck wheel.” The first of these lightweight wheels arrives in size 22.5 x 11.75.
The truck steel wheel plant that Maxion Wheels and Inci Holding have jointly built in Turkey is ready to open, and during last week’s IAA Transportation show the two companies additionally announced plans to set up a facility for manufacturing aluminium commercial vehicle wheels. Maxion Wheels says adding forged aluminium commercial vehicle wheels “rounds out” its globally leading steel wheels portfolio, making Maxion a “one-stop option for truck and trailer manufacturers.”
The Association of European Wheel Manufacturers (EUWA) welcomes Döktaş Dökümcülük Ticaret ve San. A.Ş. (Döktas Wheel Systems) as its newest member. The Güriş Industrial Group company is one of Turkey’s leading specialists in the manufacture of grey iron and aluminium goods for the automotive industry as well as for commercial and agricultural vehicles.
Wheel and automotive component manufacturer Iochpe-Maxion is investing R$100 million (£16.7 million) to expand its operations in Cruzeiro, Brazil. Work to increase truck wheel capacity in Cruzeiro will be finished in the first quarter of 2023 and boost annual output capability by 400,000 wheels, and when expansion of the plant’s agricultural wheel production capacity is completed in the third quarter of the same year, the Cruzeiro site will be equipped to produce a further 110,000 of these products annually.
Iochpe-Maxion, the world’s largest wheel supplier and the leading structural components supplier in the Americas, has set an objective of becoming a carbon neutral supplier by 2040. This target, Roadmap Zero, is the focus of all sustainability developments at the global Tier One.
Carbon composite wheel firm Dymag Performance Wheels Ltd has entered into a strategic partnership with advanced composite materials manufacturer Hankuk Carbon Co Ltd to enable the mass production of state-of-the-art high-performance carbon composite wheels for the world’s leading automotive OEMs.
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