How to provide the same strength yet be ultra-low weight – the new inner tube for mountain bikes from Schwalbe takes on this challenge. The company, the market leader in Europe for bicycle tires and inner tubes, has worked with BASF ...
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Michelin Americas Truck Tires, an arm of Michelin North America has launched Michelin X Multi Energy D Pre-Mold retread for regional and emerging super-regional applications. Building on the previously launched Michelin X Multi Energy D ...
Tags: Truck Tires, bottom layer
Cooper Tire & Rubber Company has bolstered its Roadmaster product lineup of commercial tires with new RM230 WH, capable of fitting the requirements of sanitation trucks. The new product is stated to be an all-position waste-haul tire in ...
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Automobile major Skoda will unveil its Superb GreenLine model, featuring 3.7l/100km fuel consumption and 95 g/km CO2 emissions, at IAA (Frankfurt International Motor Show). The vehicle is touted to be capable of traveling 1,780km with ...
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FGL cretail sales and same-store sales grew 6.8 percent and 4.8 percent respectively in the second quarter ended July 4, compared with the same period last year, parent company Canadian Tire Corporation (CTC), Limited reported Thursday. ...
Tags: sports goods, FGL cretail sales
Michelin has launched Defender LTX M/S with EverTread compound for light trucks, SUVs and crossovers with a view to providing more durable tread life. With the EverTread tread compound stated to offer an enhanced gravel wear and fuel ...
Tags: Light Trucks, SUVs, Michelin
Hercules Tire & Rubber Company will call back seven sizes of certain All Trac A/T SUV tires in the US for manufacturing glitches at tread separation. The initiative comes seven months after Michael Cowen of The Cowen Law Group urged the ...
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Michelin has announced that it will provide specifically tuned MICHELIN Pilot Super Sport tires as the exclusive fitment for the next-generation 2016 Cadillac CTS-V. Working closely with the Cadillac CTS-V team and drawing upon its ...
Auto Parts & Accessories Industry Products Ranking, from Jan. to Dec. 2014 According to the statistical data of Made-in-China.com, among the sub-sectors of Auto Parts & Accessories Industry, buyers pay the most attention to Auto Parts, ...
Tags: Tire, Auto Engine, Car Safety
Continental has announced a voluntary recall program involving approximately 8,500 passenger vehicle tires. The tires involved in the recall are Continental ContiProContact 225/45 R17 91 H produced between February and May 2015 and sold ...
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US automotive giant Ford has added aero curtains to its pickup truck F-150 with a view to cutting down wind drag by manipulating airflow across the front wheels. The technology, which was first introduced in Ford Mustang, lets air flow ...
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Michelin Americas Truck Tires, a division of Michelin North America, has introduced next generation wide-base single trailer tire, approved by US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) SmartWay, to be utilized in regional operations. The ...
Tags: auto parts, auto accessories, Truck Tires, single trailer tire
R.D. Abbott Company, Inc. (RDA), a full-service rubber industry supplier, has signed a new distribution agreement with the Tire and Specialty Rubber (TSR) business unit of LANXESS Corporation to expand its distribution of LANXESS TSR ...
Tags: Tire, special rubber unit
Japan-based Sumitomo Rubber Industries (SRI) and Turkish firm Abdulkadir Ozcan Otomotiv have flagged off output at their tire manufacturing unit, set up through joint venture in the Central Anatolian province of ankr, Turkey. Under the ...
Tags: tire production, automobile accessories, tire business
Thailand Minister of Industry ChakramontPasukavanich said that Thailand government is proposing to support building of rubber process factories, and they have invited some overseas investors in the end of 2014, and now there are eight China ...
Tags: Rubber Tire, Tire