KKPC Found Not in Violation of Unfair Trade Practices

(Akron/Tire Review) Administrative Law Judge Paul J. Luckern of the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) has found that the Korea Kumho Petrochemical Co. (KKPC) of Seoul, Korea, is not in violation of the ITC's unfair trade practice laws, with respect to its importation of tire chemicals into the U.S.

By Tire Review Staff
February 22, 2006

The decision also applies to the importation of Kumho tires into the U.S., as they are made with KKPC chemicals.

Since January 2005, KKPC had been under investigation for possible violation of Section 337 of the Tariff Act of 1930 at the request of international chemical supplier Flexsys America, which claimed that KKPC infringed on Flexsys’ U.S. process patents related to KKPC’s production of tire antidegradant chemicals.

In his decision, Luckern ruled that KKPC did not directly or indirectly infringe the patents asserted against it by Flexsys.

At the Crossroads of Automotive’s Past and Future: The Road to AAPEX S2E5

While Joe Keene continues down the highway in the refurbished Lincoln, Tire Review Editor David Sickels sets off to visit Proterra.

By Tire Review Staff
September 29, 2023

To know where you’re going, you have to know where you’ve been. For Babcox Media’s Joe Keene, an ASE-certified technician charged with fixing up a rare Lincoln Blackwood, it means heading back to Transtar Autobody Technologies in Detroit to put the finishing touches on the Blackwood. Then, he’ll put Babcox Media HQ in the rearview mirror as he heads out on the Lincoln Highway on his way to AAPEX. One of his first stops is the Studebaker Museum in South Bend, Ind., where he hopes to bridge the connection between the automotive industry’s past and its future.