Michelin North America’s agricultural tires unit expanded its current backhoe product offering this year with the introduction of two new tires.
The Michelin Power CL, scheduled to launch in July, is a premium bias ply tire that can handle the same load capacity as a radial tire, but with bias ply cost savings. Michelin plans to have a full product size offering in this tire line by the end of the year.
The second tire to be introduced, Michelin’s BibLoad Hard Surface radial tire, is the hard surface version of the Michelin XMCL all-terrain backhoe radial tire, said James Crouch, compact equipment segment marketing manager for Michelin North America. Planned for a November launch, it is designed for asphalt and other hard surface applications.
The tire features radial construction, steel belts and reinforced casing for puncture resistance, Crouch said. Additionally the Michelin BubLoad Hard Surface has a non-directional tread design that offers performance regardless of the tires’ rotational direction. The tire has also proven to be an excellent snow tire in Canada for these applications, Crouch added.
