Looking Up: End in Sight For OTR Tire Shortage, Capacity Improving
For the past few years, the OTR tire market has presented many challenges for manufacturers and dealers alike. Rapid growth in developing countries, large amounts of military orders and the soaring mining industries in North and South America have caused a shortage that affects everyone in the pipeline, from tiremakers down to end users. The
Disaster Avoidance: Calm, Calculated Approach Vital to Eliminating Wheel Offs
The 2008 NASCAR season is about to start and the testosterone is flowing. Now is the time to remind your technicians that installing wheels on passenger vehicles is not like being on a pit crew for a racecar. We all see how quickly a pit crew can change four tires, usually in 14 seconds or
World Rubber Consumption to Increase 4% Annually to 2011
Global consumption of rubber is forecast to rise by 4% annually in the next few years, to 26.5 million tonnes in 2011.
Nationwide Autocentres Provides Peace of Mind for ‘Grey’ Fleet
April’s Duty of Care law is looming ever closer and time is short for companies to ensure that vehicles used for business purposes provide no grounds for the new regulations to be breached.
Pneu-Logic Plans for Expansion into the U.S. Market
The U.K.-based subsidiary of Advanced ID Corporation, Pneu-Logic Ltd., has ventured further into the tyre industry through its signing of an initial contract to supply data capture tools to French firm Electronic Data Process (EDP).
Nokia Displays ‘Tyre Phone’ Concept
If you talk to car tyres as you amble down the street there’s every chance that all is not right in your life.
RMA Adds to Planned Scrap Program
RMA added an extra day to its planned second annual “Scrap to Profit – Using Ground Rubber in Rubber and Plastic Products” seminar, now set for May 6-7 at the Solamar Hotel in San Diego, Calif.
Record Sales, Savings Propel Goodyear 2007 Gains
Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. posted record sales of $19.6 billion for 2007, it reported this morning, up 5% vs. 2006, and net income for the year came in at $602 million, up from 2006’s loss of $330 million.
Firm Anticipates Large OTR Exports to Asia – With Help
Returning to the news pages once again is American Tire Corp., the company recently noted for announcing the construction of a half-billion dollar OTR tyre plant in the U.S., its rejection of a substantial corporate acquisition offer from an anonymous corporation, and, most recently the announcement of no price increases for 2008.
New Zipper Rupture Service Bulletin Out
The RMA has issued a revised zipper rupture inspection service bulletin.