Special Report: More Chinese Tires to European Market?
Tyres & Accessories – Now that President Barack Obama has stuck an added import duty on all passenger car and light truck tyres from China for the next three years, what happens next? Chinese tyre manufacturers won’t want to sell fewer tyres each year. But U.S. importers, consumers and manufacturers are equally unlikely to want
Michelin Sweeps Consumer Reports A/S, Winter Tests
Michelin swept the top spots in all four categories of Consumer Reports’ annual test of all-season and winter tires. Presented in CR’s November 2009 issue, the independent testing considers a range of performance characteristics, including dry braking, wet braking, handling, hydroplaning resistance, snow traction, ice braking, ride comfort, road noise, rolling resistance and tread life.
Dunlop Tops Sports Car Tire Test
Goodyear’s Dunlop Direzza Sport Z1 Star Spec ultra-high performance tire was rated tops in a recent test by Sports Car magazine. The UHP tire topped seven competitors in the test, which was conducted by the magazine editors and unveiled in Sports Car’s October 2009 issue. The tested tires, including entries from Bridgestone, Hankook, Kumho, Nitto,
More News & Views on China Tire Tariff Tiff
The avalanche of news stories, commentary and analysis continues in the wake of the Obama Administration’s imposition of a three-year tiered added tariff on imported China-made passenger tires. Here is a sampling of the most relevant items from the past day: China and U.S. Rule Out ‘Trade War’China View – China and the United States
The Din and the Roar
More than a few of you probably wonder why we have been fairly silent of late about the whole USW-Chinese Tire face-off. Well, the answer is simple: I think we have all talked this thing out. Media and pundits and companies and dealers from around the world have weighed in with their opinions – many
Conti, Goodyear Top Annual Tyre Seller’s Test
This week’s Auto Express contains the results of the automotive weekly’s annual product test for 12 of the United Kingdom’s top-selling tyres.With less than 2 percentage points separating the top seven products in the overall rankings, it is fair to say that standards were high when tests were carried out at Continental’s Uvalde, Texas testing
Looking Forward Tire Company Execs Talk About the Future
“The problem with the future is that it keeps turning into the present.” – Calvin & Hobbes creator Bill Watterson And the present has an odd way of getting in the way. Forinstance, when we first planned for this story, we thought it would beneat to peer into the future and see what the tire
Peerless Celebrates 60 Years, Opens New Location
In addition to celebrating 60 years in business, Peerless Tires 4 Less is opening its newest store in southwest Albuquerque, N.M.
Show Time
Despitethe economy, those of you planning to visit the SEMA Show in Las Vegasthis year will still see a number of tire producers (or producer reps)in the South Hall – the Tires, Wheels & Equipment section. On the exhibitor list, as of Aug. 5, were: AchievaRubber Corp., API Inc., Balkrishna Tyres, Chadha Rubber, CMA, Cooper,Deestone,
Elemica and RubberNetwork Merge
Rubber industry supply chain providers Elemica and RubberNetwork have merged.