Strike Leads To Supplier Layoffs
(Akron/Tire Review) Performance Fibers’ plant in Moncure, N.C., has announced layoffs, according to Raleigh’s WRAL TV, due directly to reduced orders caused by the United Steelworkers strike at 12 Goodyear tire plants in North America.
TPMS Maker Adds Tech Resources
(Akron/Tire Review) Schrader Bridgeport International has added technical and installation information for its lines of AirAware TPMS products on its Web site and on a technical hotline at 800-288-1804.
Michelin Development Opens for Business
(Akron/Tire Review) Formed in the wake of the closing of its Kitchener, Ontario, tire plant, Michelin North America’s Michelin Development opened for business yesterday.
Conti Supports Global Business Program
(Akron/Tire Review) Continental Tire North America has created a three-year, $75,000 educational scholarship program to Global Learning Opportunities in Business Education at the University of North Carolina’s Kenan-Flagler Business School.
TIC Becomes TyreSafe
(Clacton, U.K./Tyres & Accessories) From January 2007, the Tyre Industry Council will be known as TyreSafe, a move the group says will raise its profile and allow it to become more a proactively consumer-facing organisation.
Managers to Leave Goodyear Dunlop in 2007
(Clacton, U.K./Tyres & Accessories) Some 29 managers have lost their jobs at Goodyear Dunlop UK. The job losses are part of a restructuring programme, which will cut around 100 jobs in total.
Last NTDA President Dies in Thailand
(Clacton, U.K./Tyres & Accessories) Tony Cooke, president of the NTDA from 1997 to 1999, died of a heart attack in Thailand last week, the association has reported.
Ceat Looking to Set up New Greenfield Site
(Clacton, U.K./Tyres & Accessories) Ceat Tyres is planning to set up a new truck and bus radial production plant, which would also be used to produce car, tractor and speciality tyres, such as EM/OTR products, with at estimated cost range of 4.5-6 billion rupees (around ≤51 million).
Apollo Tyres OE on Volkswagen?
(Clacton, U.K./Tyres & Accessories) Apollo Tyres is in talks with Volkswagen about supplying tyres to the small car the German carmaker is planning to introduce in the next two years.
Michelin Increases Ag Tire Prices
(Akron/Tire Review) Michelin North America is boosting prices on all of its agricultural tires sold on the replacement market in the U.S. and Canada as of Jan. 1.
Pae New Hankook President
(Akron/Tire Review) H.Y. (Greg) Pae has been named president of Hankook Tire American Corp., replacing J.W. Choi, who was reassigned to head Hankook’s China operations. Pae took over as of Dec. 1.
Goodyear Shuffles Manager Before Plant Closing
(Akron/Tire Review) The Tyler (Texas) Morning Telegraph has reported that Billy Taylor, plant manager at Goodyear’s plant in that city, is being transferred and will take over as plant manager at the tiremaker’s non-union Lawton, Okla., plant.