Tag: tires

Continental Commercial Vehicle Tires Executive Team Changes

Continental Commercial Vehicle Tires Executive Team Changes

| October 23, 2017

Continental’s Commercial Vehicle Tires executive team in the Americas has noted the addition of several new members this summer,  all located in the Fort Mill, S.C., headquarters’ office. Executive Vice President Paul Williams and Vice President of Sales and Marketing for the U.S. and Canada Tom Fanning remain in their roles. In May, Kristian Klotz […]

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New Low Rolling-resistance Retread for Wide-base, Drive-position Tires from Oliver

New Low Rolling-resistance Retread for Wide-base, Drive-position Tires from Oliver

| September 15, 2017

Oliver Rubber Company, LLC, (Oliver) has announced the launch of the Oliver Ultra Low Profile (ULP) Vantage Drive, a new SmartWay®-verified, wide-base, drive-axle position retread for line haul and regional commercial-truck applications. Designed to deliver superior traction and wear, it is well suited for 18-wheel vehicles. “Keeping America’s goods and freight moving is critical for […]

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Continental Debuts Remote Digital Tire Monitoring

Continental Debuts Remote Digital Tire Monitoring

| September 15, 2017

Continental is debuting a remote, digital tire monitoring platform at the North American Commercial Vehicle (NACV) show in Atlanta, Ga., Sept. 25-29. The platform, one of the first of its kind in the U.S. and Canadian markets, provides an efficient solution for remote tire monitoring of an entire fleet. Digital tire monitoring technology allows fleets […]

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Goodyear Begins Construction on Automated Tire Manufacturing Plant

Goodyear Begins Construction on Automated Tire Manufacturing Plant

| September 13, 2017

The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company announced plans to create a new facility in Luxembourg that utilizes an innovative production process to meet growing demand for premium tires. Named Mercury, the proprietary process features highly-automated, interconnected workstations, using additive manufacturing technologies to efficiently produce premium tires in small-batch quantities on-demand for replacement and original equipment […]

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Goodyear Uses Soybean Oil-Based Rubber in Tires

Goodyear Uses Soybean Oil-Based Rubber in Tires

| August 29, 2017

Talk about going green, Goodyear Tire has reported the first commercial use of a new soybean oil-based rubber compound, which is helping the company enhance tire performance in dry, wet and winter conditions. The Goodyear team of scientists and engineers created a tread compound, or formulation, using soybean oil, which is naturally derived, cost-effective, carbon-neutral […]

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Can Natural Rubber Grown in U.S. Replace Synthetics?

Can Natural Rubber Grown in U.S. Replace Synthetics?

| August 10, 2017

Cooper Tire & Rubber Company, working as the lead entity in a public-private sector consortium,  announced the completion of a five-year, $6.9 million Biomass Research and Development Initiative (BRDI) grant: Producing and road testing concept passenger tires where natural and synthetic rubber is replaced with guayule rubber. Remarkably, the Guayule tires, which are produced from […]

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