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RUD-Erlau to Display Tire Protection Technology at Show
March 12, 2010
RUD-Erlau, purportedly the inventor of the tire protection chains, is to show it most advanced technology at this year's Bauma show in Munich on Apr. 19-25.
According to the company, the chains are more than doubling the mileage of costly OTR tires and aiding mobile plant safety in mines, quarries, steel foundries, demolition, scrap handling and glass recycling. Furthermore, the cost-benefits of...
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More Cooper-Made Tires Recalled
March 08, 2010
Two more Cooper-produced private brand tires have come under voluntary recall for potential tread chunking problems.
Some of Cooper Tire & Rubber Co.’s own Discoverer H/T and Discoverer LSX light truck/SUV radials, in size 245/70R17 and produced between Nov. 15 and Dec. 12, 2009, were recalled late last month.
Similar tires produced for TBC Corp. and Pep Boys have joined Terra Trac...
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No European Plant for Apollo, Vredestein Plant Gets Nod
March 04, 2010
India’s Apollo Tyre has apparently dropped plans to build a new tire plant in Europe, and will instead turn its attention to expanding its Vredestein facility in the Netherlands.
Apollo acquired Vredestein last year, including its plant in Enschede, Netherlands. That facility has limited land upon which to build, but Apollo feels it can double capacity there to 10 million tires per year...
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Thai Bridgestone Bandag Center Set for Growth
February 26, 2010
Upon announcing the opening of the latest Bridgestone Bandag Retread Center in Thailand, Bridgestone Corp. stated it anticipates the significant growth of its retreading business in Asia, and in preparation for this expansion it will begin construction of a retread materials plant in Thailand this November.
The Bandag center officially opened by Thai Bridgestone Co. Ltd. on Feb. 25 is located at...
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Dunlop Buying Yokohama Aircraft Tire Production Equipment
February 26, 2010
Dunlop Aircraft Tyres unit in the U.K. has bought the testing and manufacturing equipment from Yokohama Rubber Co., which exited the aircraft tire business last year.
Under a deal signed and announced on Feb. 25, Dunlop Aircraft Tyres is buying Yokohama’s radial and bias tire manufacturing and testing equipment, including a dynamometer that a Dunlop official said will help the company to...
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Goodyear Wolverhampton Back to Regular Levels
February 25, 2010
Goodyear Dunlop Tyres UK has reinstated the "Guaranteed Working Week" at its Bushbury, Wolverhampton tire retreading and compounding plant.
The company reportedly met with unions and employee representatives in the few days and says the decision will result in all full-time employees being guaranteed a full 42-hour week with immediate effect.
Goodyear Wolverhampton changed shift patterns...
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Michelin Remix Plant Gets Millions in U.K. Grant
February 24, 2010
Michelin Tyre’s Stoke-on-Trent Remix retreading manufacturing site has accepted £3.9 million towards modernization from the U.K. Department for Business Innovation and Skills.
The company plans to use this money to upgrade its facilities in order to be able to retread its latest generation Michelin Durable Technologies truck and bus tires.
According to company representatives, this...
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Apollo Plans Major Capacity Increase
February 23, 2010
An anticipated increase in demand within Africa and the expectation of growing OE sales in Europe have led Apollo Tyres to plan capacity increases in these two regions.
The Wall Street Journal reports the company’s South African activities involve the investment of $30 million this year at its two Dunlop facilities there in order to boost passenger radial capacity from 10,000 units per day...
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Two New Radial Plants Planned in VN
February 22, 2010
VNBusinessNews.com reports that a number of Vietnamese companies are rushing into the radial tire business.
Citing growing demand for tires driven by fast-rising sales of new cars and trucks in the country, a number of companies have announced plans to build radial tire plants in the country.
The Viet Nam Chemical Group (Vinachem) has already made a $55 million investment in a new radial plant...
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MHI Set to Produce Tire Making Machinery in China
February 19, 2010
Vehicle production in China is said to have exceeded an estimated 13.5 million units last year, with 2010 production expected to grow to around 14 million units.
Alongside this growth, demand for tires in this market has also risen sharply, and during the course of the coming year China is anticipated to surpass the U.S. as the world’s largest tire market.
In a “strategic res...
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Florida Man to Operate InfoSpi's 'Tire to Oil' Facilities
February 18, 2010
InfoSpi Inc. signed a letter of intent with Herbert W. Biggs of Florida, who shall acquire the exclusive rights to set up and operate the Tire to Oil facilities in Palm Beach and Collier counties in that state.
Biggs, who is also involved in other partnerships such as Superior Green Homes in Ft. Pierce, Fla., which utilizes many green products in their affordable homes, said, “Our group is...
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Tire Shortage Causing OEM Headaches in India
February 18, 2010
India’s Tata Motors reports its commercial vehicle production has been reduced by between 5% and 10% since January due to a shortage of radial tires and other key components. This disclosure follows one from Ashok Leyland, which was forced to decrease production by 20% for similar reasons.
“There is no one specific supplier that is leading to this shortfall,” Tata Motors president...
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Recycling Plant can Accommodate 80% of Israel's Tires
February 18, 2010
What Israeli media is referring to as the country’s largest tire recycling facility opened Feb. 16 in the northern Samaria Shachak industrial zone. The Tyrek recycling plant, according to reports, is capable of recycling 30,000 tons of tires per annum, a quantity equivalent to 80% of the end of life tires replaced with new tires each year in Israel.
An opening ceremony was attended by national...
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Workers say Denman Operations Stalled
February 17, 2010
Most of Denman Tire Corp.'s 230 union workers at its Braceville, Ohio, plant have been off the job for more than a week while the tiremaker searches for money to buy material needed to keep making tires, workers say.
The workers say management told them Feb. 5 not to return to work until further notice. They said some employees still are working to maintain boilers needed to keep cold weather from...
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Goodyear South Africa Plant Recycles Water
February 16, 2010
In just two months, Goodyear South Africa has managed to save 5.6 million liters of water – the amount 180 houses would use in a month – through an ongoing recycling initiative.
While water restrictions do not apply to industry, Goodyear is trying to save where it can, in light of the Eastern Cape’s critical water shortage, according to a report by The (Port Elizabeth) Herald.
The...
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Toyo's Georgia Plant Rolls Out 5 Millionth Tire
February 08, 2010
Toyo Tire North America Manufacturing Inc., maker of Toyo and Nitto brand tires, recently produced its 5 millionth tire at its White, Ga. Plant.
Toyo uses a highly automated and proprietary tire production system called Advanced Tire Operation Module (ATOM), which results in highly consistent, highly uniform tires, the company said. Considered the most technologically advanced manufacturing facility...
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Workers, Kumho Petrochemical Agree to Wage Freeze
February 04, 2010
One of Kumho Petrochemical’s main businesses is the production of synthetic rubber, much of which is supplied to the tire industry.
The company’s Ulsan plant in South Korea alone produces in excess of half a million tons of synthetic rubber per annum. To tackle the company’s recent economic crisis, in late January the Kumho Asiana division’s labor management negotiation...
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Second Bridgestone Plant Gains LEED Certification
February 03, 2010
Bridgestone Americas' passenger and light truck/SUV tire plant in Aiken County, S.C., has earned LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Silver Certification from the U.S. Green Building Council.
With this honor, the Aiken County facility becomes the second LEED-certified Bridgestone plant, joining the Warren County, Tenn., truck and bus tire plant that earned the distinction in November...
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Ontario Grant Helps New Scrap Tire Technology
February 02, 2010
Canadian firm Ellsin Environmental Ltd. is receiving government support in its implementation of technology that will enable scrap tires to be converted into usable by-products by means of a microwave process.
The patented reverse polymerization technology was developed over a period of more than 15 years by another Canadian company, Environmental Waste International (EWI), and Ellsin has contracted...
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TBR Production Launched at Bridgestone India Site
February 01, 2010
Production of truck and bus radials is scheduled to begin at Bridgestone’s factory in Indore, India.
Company subsidiary Bridgestone India Private Ltd. has announced that, in response to increasing domestic demand, approximately 3.3 billion yen (₤22.9 million) will be invested in preparing for the start of TBR tire production in the first half of 2011. Production capacity is expected to reach...
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