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From 1st to 9th December 2018 (preview day: 30th November) the Essen Motor Show will bring sports car enthusiasts, motorsport racers, and classic car fans together. The horsepower festival will take place for the 51th time. There will be Continental, Hankook, Mercedes FanWorld, Porsche Motorsport, Renault Motorsport, Skoda, and Toyo Tires as well known exhibitors.
Marangoni GRP Private Limited (MGPL), a joint venture operating in the area of retreading of commercial vehicles in India, announces its first full service Ringtread franchisee in India: Autobahn Retreading, which is part of Autobahn Trucking Corporation (P) Ltd and dealer for Bharat Benz Trucks in Cochin/Kerala.
Pirelli and the team Luna Rossa Challenge have come to an agreement concerning setting up a partnership, which will focus on projects lasting several years: the participation of Luna Rossa in the next edition of the America's Cup in New Zealand in the year 2021.
Apollo Tyres has expanded the Altrust tyre series. Fourteen sizes of the Altrust All Season cover the most popular sizes of vans. According to responsible people at the company, the series is characterized by quality features like braking behaviour on wet roads, high stability when taking bends as well as a low noise level during the whole tyre life.
Continental will take over the Australian Kmart Tyre and Auto Service“ (KTAS) and will strengthen its network of dealers in Australia. The Australian company Wesfarmers Limited is the seller. The purchase price amounts to 350 Australian dollars (about 227 million euros).
Yokohama has finished the technology relations with Kumho Tire. Since February 2014, there has been an agreement on the Master Technological Alliance. The cooperation F&E-Agreement as well as the agreement on an exchange of licences and technology aimed at working together on tyre-related future technologies including eco-friendly tyre technologies and new concept tyres. Due to recent changes of majority shareholders of Kumho Tire, the agreement was cancelled based on these conditions.
From 11th to 15th September, the REIFEN 2018 will have its premiere parallel to the Automechanika Frankfurt. Most of the tyre brands with radiant power will not be present at the trade fair, as the majority of the international tyre industry decided in favour of being present at The Tire Cologne.
Vredestein offers a broad portfolio of tyres for classic cars. Furthermore, a growing increase in tyres for modern classic cars has been noticed too. Thus, the company is expanding its offer of tyres for these vehicles. The first tyre for modern classic cars has exclusively been developed for the Audi Ur-Quattro in size 215/50 R15 and will be introduced into the market in September 2018. Jochen Mass, the former Formula 1 champion and ambassador of the brand Vredestein, supported the development.
The MWheels GmbH based in Neuwied has nominated Stefan Kantz as European Office Coordinator in order to reinforce overseas business. Kantz is to support both the distribution and the finance team in an administrative way, and to coordinate logistics providers. Thus, he is meant to guarantee that all customer needs will be satisfied within the framework of budget and schedule.
According to information from Pirelli, it has cracked the mark of 500 homologations for run-flat tyres, which means in detail: 326 homologations for summer tyres, 100 approvals for winter tyres, and 90 releases for all-season tyres. Pirelli received the latest homologation from Alfa Romeo for a run-flat tyre.
BMW has just selected two Bridgestone tyre series for the original equipment of the only recently introduced third generation of its BMW X3. Thus, Bridgestone is continuing its long-standing partnership with the BMW Group by providing a total of elven different sizes of the Alenza 001 and Blizzak tyre lines for original equipment.
The second edition of Xtractor Around The World, which started in Cape Town on 3rd April, was successfully finished on 20th May. BKT was one of the sponsors. During the 50-day expedition, the BKT tyres AGRIMAX FORCE and AGRIMAX RT 657 were used for the McCormick agricultural tractors series X7 P6-Drive and X8 VT-Drive.
All-season tyres are trendy. In the meantime, several brands have added all-season tyres to their range of products. Please find a table of the current all-season tyres in the download area of this website (the editors make no claim to completeness). You can find a list of 113 treads in the table, which we added to our supplement database, and which were provided by the industry.
Zenises introduces a tyre for transporters with its Vantastic. First of all, the tread will be available in seven sizes. The people responsible for the company stress that the tyre “was developed in Europe for Europe”. There was a development focus on safety capacities and mileage.
Timo Bernhard, the German racing driver, has gone around the Nordschleife at Nürburgring in the incredible time of 5:19.546 minutes steering a Porsche 919 Hybrid Evo. The high-performance racing car was equipped with tyres especially developed by Michelin and was able to do without any mechanical or electronic stability control systems.
Goodyear has announced that the new Jaguar E-PACE of the British car manufacturer will be equipped with tyres of the brand Goodyear. The compact SUV will get the Eagle F1 Asymmetric 3 SUV and the Eagle F1 Asymmetric SUV All-Terrain as standard fitting. Both tyres are marked with “JRL” in order to indicate Jaguar Land Rover’s approval as original equipment.
Since the end of 2017, Falken has been selling the secondary brand Sumitomo Tyres. The current product portfolio consists of the passenger car and SUV summer tyre BC100 and the SL727, a summer tyre especially developed for vans and light trucks. The WT200 is available for use in wintry conditions, which was as well designed for the passenger car and SUV segment. The three models were presented at The Tire Cologne for the first time.
Michelin and Camso have come to an agreement according to which Michelin will take over the company Camso based in Quebec/Canada. The OTR (off-the-road) activities of both companies are to be concentrated in a new division, which will be managed from Quebec.
Hankook has received an original equipment order for the current BMW X3. The BMW X3 is to show a dynamic and sportive outward appearance with both the Ventus S1 evo2 SUV in size 225/60 R18 104 W XL and with Hankook’s winter i*cept evo2 SUV in 225/60 R18 104 H XL. The Ventus S1 evo2 SUV received among other things an especially adapted apex under the star marking for the BMW X3.
The worldwide biggest tyre manufacturer presented its technical know-how and its tyre solutions among others in the passenger car and truck segment at The Tire Cologne. The Weather Control A005, Bridgestone’s first all-season tyre, celebrated its world premiere.
The Delticom AG is checking strategic options for its e-commerce activities in North America. The online tyre trade with private and commercial customers in North America is carried out via the web shops tires-easy.com, giga-tires.com and tires-easy.ca under the umbrella of Delticom North America Inc., in which the Delticom AG has a share of 75 per cent.