Goodyear's new UniCircle treads, including the G392 (above) and the G394, are for wide-base truck tires. The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. has rolled out two new UniCircle spliceless treads to help fleets extend the service life of popular ...
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Atlas Tire Wholesale Inc. has opened a second distribution center (DC) in western Canada and expanded an existing warehouse in eastern Canada. The new DC is in Edmonton, Alberta. Atlas also operates a DC in Richmond, British Columbia. ...
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The Ken-Tool 5-bar Super Magnum cage features five mandrel-bent, high-strength 12-gauge, 2-1/4-inch diameter structural steel tubes, welded to a 3/16-inch thick steel plate base with a 2-inch wide, ?-inch thick reinforcing strap welded to ...
OEMs are now putting Chinese brands on their trucks, further breaking down barriers and quality concerns, says Walt Weller, vice president of CMA A wide range of topics were discussed by industry executives during the featured conference ...
"Seventy years as a customer is a significant milestone," said Phillip Kane (right), vice president of Goodyear Commercial Tire Systems. Kane is pictured with Clark Tire owner John D. Clark. Clark Tire & Auto, a 21-location tire ...
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DLS Retreading Inc. in Lancaster County, S.C., will eventually produce 200 retreaded truck tires per day. DLS Retreading Inc. opened the doors of the first all-new ContiTread licensed truck tire retreading facility in the United States on ...
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Firestone and North America's owner/operators and small fleets have much in common: they've both been essential to getting trucking to where it is today, and they both deserve a lot more respect and attention than they've been getting of ...
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City Tire Co., with 11 stores in a four-state area, is celebrating 85 years of business in July 2013. Founded in July, 1927, by Irving Greenberg, who had recently arrived in the United States from Russia, the company is now run by his ...
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The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. has entered into an agreement with TravelCenters of America LLC (TravelCenters.) TA Truck Service and Petro:Lube locations will carry thee additional Goodyear Fuel Max truck tires: The G399A LHS Fuel Max ...
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Michelin North America Inc. says it is voluntarily recalling approximately 100,000 tires in order to retrieve an estimated 2,500 tires -- about 2.5% of the recalled population -- "that could have partial or full sidewall perforations that ...
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Yokohama Tire Corp. (YTC) has released version 1.3 of its iPad app for the truck tire industry, the Yokohama Commercial Tire Navigator. It is available on iTunes for free download by clicking here. The Yokohama Commercial Tire Navigator ...
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Bridgestone Commercial Solutions, a business of Bridgestone Americas Tire Operations LLC, announced that Bridgestone and Firestone commercial truck tires will retail at Love's Travel Stops. Tires will be sold at the 175 Love's locations ...
Asian butadiene prices are at a 3-1/2 half year low amid weak demand and a glut of synthetic rubber stocks, Platts data showed. The FOB Korea benchmark for butadiene stood at $1,350/mt on June 17. The last time butadiene prices were ...
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Pirelli plans investing $200m to Chinese factory by the end of next year, in order to make China as its largest manufacturing center. Gregorio Borgo, the president of Pirelli in the Asia-Pacific region, said: “We will build a ...
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Continental Tire the Americas (CTA) is planning to invest $129m in its Mt. Vernon, Illinois tire facility in order to increase production of tires to meet increasing demands in the US. The company plans to spend $95m for the expansion of ...
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