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Hard Decisions Come
BFS Strike Threatened: Negotiations Go to the Wire; Nine Plants at Stake
Negotiations Go to the Wire; Nine Plants at Stake
Industry Report
Michelin signs eight more retreaders, now claims 38
Military Profile: Andrew Taylor
Andrew “Butch” Taylor joined the Army National Guard while he was still in high school. During training Taylor attended One Station Unit Training.
Club 3633 Profile: Kim Taylor
Kim Taylor and husband, Andrew Taylor, are entrepreneurs at heart. With no real automotive service experience, together the pair purchased Titan Auto & Tire in 2004. The business has since grown in size to two locations, with a third location being explored.
TGI Hosts Dealer Meeting in Jamaica
Tire Group International (TGI) hosted its third, biennial dealer meeting, “Mission: Happiness 3,” in Montego Bay, Jamaica.
Welcome Club 3633
Charles Goodyear revolutionized the commercial rubber industry when he discovered vulcanization and filed patent U.S. 3633. The filing of this patent can be seen as a starting point for the modern tire industry. Throughout history others built upon Goodyear’s discovery: Robert W. Thompson, John Boyd Dunlop, André and Édouard Michelin, Frank Seiberling, Harvey Firestone and
The Evolution of Ag
The first recorded attempt to use pneumatic farm tires was about 144 years ago in California’s San Joaquin Valley. The Thompson’s Rubber Tire Steamer was set up to pull seven plows and chug along at about 10 mph. It didn’t fare very well. The second attempt wasn’t until 47 years later in 1918 when International
Ag: Still a Tough Row to Hoe
This certainly is not your father’s agricultural tire market. In these increasingly volatile times, people and events across the globe are more connected in more ways than ever before. Extreme drought conditions in the Western U.S. and historical wet conditions in other areas of the Americas impact crop prices in Europe. Raw material prices in
2015 FinOvation Award Winners Announced
Farm Industry News has named 20 recipients of its 2015 FinOvation Award. Among those companies chosen for the award were Titan Tire Corp.’s Goodyear Farm Tires brand, Trelleborg Wheel Systems Americas and PTG of Germany. The award is presented to those products and companies that received the most interest from the publication’s readers throughout 2014.
