Anne Evans: Turning Waste Tyres Into Wealth
(India/Rubber Asia) Worldwide, more than 1.5 billion scrap tyres are removed from vehicles each year.
Fast Forward with Ambitious Cooper Asian Forays
(India/Rubber Asia) For Cooper Tyre & Rubber Co., these are days of great challenges: Making the ambitious China foray successful, attempting a turnaround in the U.S. operations, capitalising on the growing European and Australian operations and getting a foothold on the premium segment, to name a few.
NR Price to Impact Consumption and Exports
(India/Rubber Asia) Projections/predictions of even hard-nosed pundits of natural rubber (NR) in the last few years had gone awry, not so much because of unexpected turn of fundamentals, but because of extraneous factors.
Regulators’ Overkill Hit Tyre Market
(India/Rubber Asia – column by Peter Taylor, editor) As tyre sidewalls shrink in the move to ever-lower profiles, it is understandable that manufacturers scowl every time some new regulatory mark or other needs adding to that already unreadable area just above the bead.
Avoid The Big Worries
Sometimes, it’s the little things that make a good program better, even great. However, these little things can just as easily haunt you and even create disabling problems that can be elusive to diagnose and difficult to correct. We tire people tend to focus on the big issues of proper tire selection, application and maintenance,
Goodyear Says Plants Pass Quality Audits
(Akron/Tire Review) Trying to counter striking worker questions about the quality of tires being made by temporary workers at Goodyear tire plants, the tiremaker said that independent quality audits of three of its tire plants found the company was in 100% compliance with its quality standards.
Striking Union’s Ads Slash Tiremaker
(Akron/Tire Review – Washington Times) There’s nothing subtle about the national advertising campaign being mounted by the United Steelworkers of America: Buy Goodyear tires and risk death.
Herman Trend Alert: Manufacturers Being Squeezed
(Akron/Tire Review) The following report is from the “Herman Trend Alert,” by Roger Herman and Joyce Gioia, strategic business futurists.
USW Disputes Analysts Date Claim
(Akron/Tire Review) The United Steelworkers is now attacking a report by Himansho Patel, an analyst with JP Morgan Securities, which suggests a key date in the union’s current strike against Goodyear could be Jan. 3 – the date plant worker medical benefit coverage lapses.
Six Guilty in Synthetic Rubber Price Fixing
(Akron/Tire Review) Five international synthetic rubber producers received fines totaling $682 million from the European Commission after the group said they had fixed prices.
Private Investment Firm Buys Big 10 Tire Stores
(Akron/Tire Review) An affiliate of Sun Capital Partners, a private investment firm, has acquired Big 10 Tire Stores Inc.
Coker Receives 10th Annual NSRA Award
(Akron/Tire Review) Joseph “Corky” Coker, president of Coker Tire Co., and former chairman of Specialty Equipment Market Association (SEMA), has been awarded the National Street Rod Association (NSRA) 2006 Street Rodding Achievement Award.