Tire Aftermarket in India Growing: Frost & Sullivan Report
(Akron/Tire Review) A new report from Frost & Sullivan, entitled “Indian Tire Aftermarket,” shows that the Indian tire aftermarket earned revenues of $1,461.7 million in 2005 and estimates revenues to reach $3,414.6 million in 2012.
Cheap Illegal Imports Force Indonesian Manufactures to Close
(Clacton, U.K./Tyres & Accessories) A “flood of illegal Chinese- and Indian-made tyres” has caused two influential Indonesian tyre manufacturers to close.
China’s Vehicle Imports Up 72%
(Clacton, U.K./Tyres & Accessories) Vehicle imports into China totalled 147,000 units in the first eight months of this year, the Xinhua news agency has reported.
WTO Battle Starts Against China on Auto Parts
(Akron/Tire Review – Bloomberg News) The U.S., European Union and Canada will today ask World Trade Organization judges to prohibit Chinese duties on imports of car parts they say discriminate against foreign makers, in the first WTO lawsuit against China, EU and U.S. officials said.
Wheel Anatomy: Part III
In the last of a series of three articles about how different types of wheels are made, we now turn our focus to three-piece designs. What are three-piece wheels? And, what is so great about them? As the name states, this type of wheel is an assembly of three components. Like a two-piece wheel, the
DeWine and Da Roses
Was Sen. Mike DeWine that far off base to suggest consumers should know how "new" their new tires really are? Yes, there is that whole cart-before-the-horse argument about needing scientific evidence of the impact of age on tire performance before getting consumers all cranked up. But, this is the 21st century, and I’d suggest tiremakers
Big Bang Theory
Experts say that if a football field-sized meteor hit our little planet, the resulting cataclysm would pretty much end all life as we know it. Giant dust storm blots out the sun, temperatures fall, nothing grows®ƒyou know the story. Did you ever wonder what would happen if an equally large unheavenly body unexpectedly crashed to
Industry Report
Master contract talks between Bridgestone Americas Holding (BAH) and the United Steelworkers of America (USWA) shattered Nov. 13 after union negotiators walked out of a bargaining meeting claiming the company’s contract proposal was "so far off the mark" and setting the stage for a possible strike at BAH tire plants across North America.