Apollo Tyres Ltd announced its entry into the two-wheeler tyre segment in India. All-new Apollo Acti series two-wheeler tyres were unveiled today by the company. Designed and developed at the company’s Global R&D Centre in Chennai, Apollo Acti series for…
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Yokohama, Continental terminate JV
The Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd. and Continental AG have agreed to terminate their joint venture company, Yokohama Continental Tire Co., Ltd. (YCC), effective end of March 2016. YCC has been formed in 2002, in order to meet Japanese and Korean…
Yokohama to launch street sport tyre
Yokohama Rubber announced that from July 2016 it will begin marketing a new street-legal sport tyre developed for use in circuit, gymkhana events, the Advan A052. It will come in 16 sizes, ranging from 16 inches to 18 inches. The…
Bridgestone receives environmental award from Honda
Bridgestone Corporation received an Environmental Award from Honda Motor. The award ceremony was held on February 18 at Bridgestone’s Tochigi Plant. At the ceremony, Bridgestone’s Vice President and Senior Officer Responsible for Safety, Disaster Prevention and Quality Yutaka Yamaguchi was…
Michelin launches tyre for harvesting equipment
Michelin Agricultural Tires introduced the new Michelin VF520/85R42 CFO 177A8 CerexBib tyre. Michelin’s Very High Flexion (VF) tyres include a class of agricultural tyres designed to handle bigger and heavier farm equipment that has a greater ability to flex under…
Cooper Tire Engineers receive STEP Ahead Award
Cooper Tire today announced that The Manufacturing Institute has recognized two of its engineers with a Women in Manufacturing STEP (Science, Technology, Engineering and Production) Ahead Award for 2016. Heather Mosier, Sport Utility Vehicle and Light Truck Tire Development Manager,…
Global nitrile butadiene market to reach US$485 mn by 2020
According to a report by Zion Research, the global nitrile-butadiene rubber market was valued at approximately US$300 million in 2014 and is expected to reach approximately US$485 million by 2020, growing at a CAGR of slightly above 6.0% between 2015…
Comerio rolls into Vietnam’s tyre market
Last year, Vietnam’s vehicle sales rose to 244,914, an increase of 55% over 2014, said the Vietnam Automobile Manufacturers Association (VAMA) early this year. While mainly a two-wheeler market, the number of cars sold has upped in the last few…
Tyre materials supply to grow by 3.1 percent
Tyres are a major global business, consuming almost 40 million tonnes of materials in 2014. Purchasing these materials makes up around 30% of a tyre company’s sales, and the materials input is estimated at US$70 billion globally in 2014. Despite…
BST eltromat presents new technology
At the Tire Technology EXPO 2016, BST eltromat presented for tire production that set new standards in process control, quality control and automation, and can be flexibly adapted to individual customer requirements. The products exhibited by BST eltromat in Hanover…