While It’s Hot: With the Right Business Approach, Selling Nitrogen Can Pump Up Profits
For the past five or so years, suppliers of nitrogen-inflation equipment have made serious claims. Compared to moisture- and dirt-laden compressed air, nitrogen – a dry, inert gas – runs cooler, does not permeate through rubber as quickly and does not cause rust to develop on steel cords, expensive wheels or tire pressure monitoring sensors.
A New Ballgame: With Alignments Today, ‘To Spec’ Doesn’t Cut It Anymore
A proper alignment job is not necessarily an easy task, but if you have the right equipment and well-trained technicians who know the operational guidelines, it can be a walk in the park. The plan is to give your customers the longest tire life possible. But when it comes to delivering a customer-oriented alignment, are
Wrappin’ Up: Finishing One Big Toy and Finding Another Lift Option
Picking up where we left off last month, there is one more quick lift product that I want to cover and it’s name is, well, QuickLift. Newly developed by the team at Rancho Suspensions (gorancho.com), this product allows you to raise the nose of most popular 1/2-ton trucks from 1-inch to 2.5 inches. This will
Pressure Points: Newspaper Checks Out Tire Pressure Gauges
(Akron/Tire Review – Ft. Worth Star-Telegram) Memorial Day weekend approaches – let the summer driving begin!
Setting the Wheels in Motion for Business Success
(Staffordshire, U.K./Tyres & Accessories) Neill and Ginny Murphy, a team with pioneering ideas on alloy wheel refurbishment in the UK, are franchising their business and looking to recruit 65 franchisees.
Sibur-Russian Tyres Looks for PCR Production Partner
(Staffordshire, U.K./Tyres & Accessories) Be in no doubt Russian manufacturer Sibur-Russian Tyres has set its sights on the global market.
Maxxis Aims for Growth through Retail Network
(Staffordshire, U.K./Tyres & Accessories) Speaking exclusively to Tyres & Accessories, Maxxis International (UK) Ltd. managing director Derek McMartin has given more details of plans to grow its PCR business in the U.K. by setting up a series of retail ‘Centres of Excellence’ to actively promote the brand to the tyre buying public.
Drift Drivers Choose Nexen
(Staffordshire, U.K./Tyres & Accessories) Nexen tyres have been chosen as the competition tyres for two of Europe’s leading drifters Eric O’Sullivan and Martin French.
JK Tyre Outlines Further Investment Plans
(Staffordshire, U.K./Tyres & Accessories) India’s third-largest tyre manufacturer, JK Tyre & Industries Ltd., has made no secret of its plans to increase domestic marketshare in key segments and to seek out new export markets, but bringing these goals to fruition requires the expansion of the company’s existing production capacities.
Techking Tires Becomes 100th Exhibitor at Tyrexpo Asia
(Staffordshire, U.K./Tyres & Accessories) China’s Techking Tires has become the one hundredth exhibitor to sign up for September’s Tyrexpo Asia exhibition in Singapore, breaking all records for the show as it approaches its 10th anniversary.