Tenneco Has New Spanish Language Site
Tenneco has launched a Spanish-language Web site for its Monroe ride control products – www.espanol.monroe.com.
Company Taps into Scrap Tires for Carbon Black
(Akron/Tire Review – Recycling Today) Delta-Energy LLC, Monroeville, Pa., has introduced two carbon black-based products recovered from tire shred that can be used as alternatives to virgin carbon black in rubber and plastic compounds.
Tenneco Sets Fall Expert Plus Promo
(Akron/Tire Review) Tenneco has announced its Expert Plus “The Fall Line-Up” promotion, designed to encourage service technicians to recommend Monroe shocks and struts, Walker exhausts, and DynoMax performance exhausts.
Tenneco Plans Expansion of DRIVE Education Effort
(Akron/Tire Review) Tenneco’s DRIVE education program, launched in 2005, will target several new automotive vocational and high school programs this fall.
Tenneco Launches Comeback Promotion
(Akron/Tire Review) From Sept. 1 through Oct. 31, consumers can be rewarded for replacing worn shocks and struts in Monroe shocks and struts’ “Monster Cash” promotion, earning up to a $60 comeback certificate on future automotive services.
New Web Site Focuses on Ride Control Education
(Akron/Tire Review) As part of an industry-wide consumer awareness program, Tenneco’s new Web site can help teach drivers about the role of shocks and struts play in daily driving and vehicle safety.
BFNAT Back as Formula D Sponsor
(Akron/Tire Review) Bridgestone/Firestone North American Tire has signed on to sponsor the 2007 Need for Speed Formula Drift (Formula D) Championship Series.
Tenneco Launches 2007 Expert Plus Program
(Akron/Tire Review) Now in its ninth year, Tenneco’s Expert Plus program provides member vehicle service businesses with an array of point-of-sale materials, promotions, advertising and training to help maximize their profits with Tenneco products – Monroe shocks and struts, Monroe brakes, Walker exhaust products, DynoMax performance exhaust, and Rancho suspensions and shock absorbers.
Tenneco Expands Capacity, Coverage For Quick-Strut Assembly
(Akron/Tire Review) Tenneco Inc. announced the third expansion of production capacity and an increase in application coverage for its Monroe Quick-Strut assembly, a fully assembled replacement strut for late-model passenger vehicles.
Industry Report
Reports Say Georgia Site of Planned Toyo PlantIt’s existing capacity stretched to the limit, Toyo Tire & Rubber Co. took a giant step forward, announcing on Feb. 17 plans for a new $150-million passenger and light truck/SUV tire plant that would come on stream in 2006. News reports out of Atlanta in early February indicated the company received approval to build the plant in Bartow County, Ga., about 60 miles north of Atlanta. Toyo said the plant would have the capacity to produce two million consumer tires per year.