Safe-Run has made significant process in the patent dispute against VMI

Safe-Run announced that it had made significant process in the patent invalidation and patent litigation process against VMI HOLLAND B.V. The Patent Reexamination Board of State Intellectual Property Office declared that the VMI’s invention patent “Assembly for and Method of Making a Tyre Component” is entirely invalid. The patent declared

Source: China Rubber Web

2017/08/09

ZC Rubber Opens Second Retail Location in Thailand

  ZC Rubber has opened its second Goodride Autospace store in Samut Sakhon province in Thailand. The 1600-square-meter store has six service and will not only sell Goodride tires but also provide express services including lubricant, brake, balancing and alignment. The building of Autospace stores in Thailand is the first step for ZC Rubber to

Source: Tire Review

2017/08/07

A dozen of the biggest Chinese tyre manufacturers exhibiting at Tire+

ZC Rubber is probably the largest tyremaker exhibiting at Tire+ . However, there are plenty more exhibitors in addition to that including 11 more large players In order to give an impression of the kind of clientele Tire+ is attracting, it worth looking a little closer at the show’s exhibitor list. With this in mind here are 12 of the biggest tyre

Source: Tyres & Accessories

2017/08/03

TRIANGLE GLOBAL SUMMIT

Triangle Tyre held its “2017 Global Summit” in the coastal city of Rongcheng, China, not far from Weihai, where the company is headquartered, at the end of June. The Global Summit’s aim was to foster and strengthen relationships with worldwide business partners, share the next stages of the companies’ evolution and in particular th

Source: Tyre Trade News

2017/07/30

Sentury Introduces Landsail All-Weather Tire

Sentury Tire has introduced the Landsail 4-Seasons all-weather passenger tire. “The 4-Seasons is a tire designed for the consumer who wants the convenience of four season driving without the need to switch over to winter tires. Over 20 4-Seasons tire sizes will fit the most popular vehicles on the road today,” said said Max Wee, executive

Source: Tire Review

2017/07/28

Double Coin Completes New Manufacturing Plant in Thailand

Double Coin and CMA, announced the completion of its new advanced manufacturing facility in Thailand. The facility is owned by Huayi Group Co. and will manufacture truck, bus, industrial tires and OTR tires for the North American market. “This is Double Coin’s first manufacturing plant outside of China and one of a total of six plants. Thi

Source: Tire Review

2017/07/25

Triangle Tyre Signs Strategic Cooperation with Dipropneu to Develop the French Market

TRIANGLE Tyre Europe has signed a strategic cooperation agreement with DIPROPNEU, one of the main tyres distributors in the French market. The arrangement belongs to the new TRIANGLE’s strategy to increase its presence across Europe and, particularly for France, will focus on the development of the local and overseas markets for the Chinese manufacture

Source: Tyre Trade News

2017/07/23

Challenges persist for Chinese tire manufacturers

London – China-based  tire manufacturers reported a decline of around 7% in sales for 2016 compared to the previous year, ERJ’s analysis of figures supplied by the China Rubber Industries Association (CRIA) and company reports show. And, as was the case in 2015, most of China’s larger tire makers suffered lower revenues in their hom

Source: European Rubber Journal

2017/07/20

China halobutyl maker Cenway plans major expansion

Guangzhou, China – Chinese materials supplier Zhejiang Cenway is planning to add 150 kilotonnes per annum (ktpa) of capacity for halobutyl-rubber production, according the firm’s acting general manager Benz Li. Speaking to ERJ earlier this year, Li said the expansion project at its facilities in Jiaxing, Zhejiang was expected to complete by en

Source: European Rubber Journal

2017/07/20

Double Coin Thai plant produces first tire

Photo by Sinohydro Foundation Engineering The first trial truck tire cured at the Huayi Group Thailand Ltd. plant in Rayong, Thailand. RAYONG, Thailand—Shanghai Huayi (Group)'s joint venture in Thailand has initiated trial truck tire production at its new plant in Rayong, according to information provided by the plant's contractor. L

Source: Rubber & Plastics News

2017/07/19

Linglong Producing 3-D Tire

Shandong Linglong Tire has teamed up with the Beijing University of Chemical Technology to produce a 3-D printed tire, Tyres & Accessories reports. The tire uses thermoplastic polyurethane (TPU) material instead of rubber tread. The material allows for less heat build-up and lower rolling resistance, the tiremaker said. The material can

Source: Tire Review

2017/07/18

Conti prepares for expansion of Chinese tire plant

HEFEI, China—Continental A.G. is moving forward with the Phase 4 expansion of its 6-year-old car tire plant in Hefei, a project that will boost the factory's capacity by 30 percent to 20 million car tires a year.  Company officials signed contracts in July with local officials, clearing the way for the $294 million project to begin at t

Source: Rubber & Plastics News

2017/07/12

Sentury Tire Chooses Design Firm for Georgia Plant

Sentury Tire has selected SSOE Group to design its 1.4 million square-foot tire manufacturing facility in LaGrange, Ga. “We are thrilled to work with the SSOE team to design an innovative facility for our North American operations,” said Rami Helminen, Sentury Tire executive vice president and CEO for Sentury Tire North America. “Bringin

Source: Tire Review

2017/07/12

Kanwar: Apollo under pressure from Chinese truck & bus tires

Kochi, India – Apollo Tyres’ truck & bus tire operations are under pressure from cheap Chinese tire imports, according to company chairman Onkar Kanwar. Imports of low-cost radials for trucks and buses from China are proving to be a challenge for Apollo’s bias products manufactured at its Kerala plants in India, Kanwar said at th

Source: European Rubber Journal

2017/07/10

Guilin Rubber Machinery Saw Remarkable Effects on Optimizing the Connecting Rod Processing Craft

Lately, by means of process optimization, the “connecting rod processing craft optimization” project of Guilin Rubber Machinery Co., Ltd. shortened the auxiliary time and increased the production efficiency by 31.1%. It is known that connecting rod processing is a bottleneck procedure for vulcanizing machine production, which involves multiple

Source: China Rubber Journal

2017/07/07

Sales in the First Quarter of Linglong Tire Was RMB 3.326 Billion Yuan

On April 26, Shandong Linglong Tire Co., Ltd. released an announcement on its main operating data in the first quarter in 2017, according to which its tire production was 12,833,500 million, its sales 12,356,100, and its product sales avenue RMB 3.326 Billion Yuan. The fluctuation in price of major products was due to factors including increase in the pri

Source: China Rubber Journal

2017/07/07

Import Amount of Rubber in the First Quarter More than Doubled on a Year-on-year Basis

According to the latest statistics by the General Admin- istration of Customs, in the first quarter of 2017, the rubber import amount of China more than doubled on a year-on-year basis. Among which, the import volume of natural rubber (in- cluding latex) added up to 760,000 tons, and the import turnover exceeded RMB 10 Billion Yuan, with a year-on-year su

Source: China Rubber Journal

2017/07/07

Rare Earth Polybutadiene Rubber Products of Zhejiang Transfer Got off Assembly Line

The first piece of rare earth polybutadiene rubber from Zhejiang Transfer Synthetic Materials Co., Ltd. successfully got off the assembly line on March 28, which indicated that the development of complete process technology for rare earth polybutadiene rubber over nearly two years became a success. Transfer Synthetic Materials took more than one year to b

Source: China Rubber Journal

2017/07/07

The Third-Phase Project of Continental Tire Hefei Factory Was Put into Production

On March 28, the third-phase project of Continental Tire Hefei Factory with an investment of 250 Million Euro was formally put into production. By then, the total investment of Continental Group in Heifei Factory had reached 570 Million Euro. After all three phases of the project reach the target output, the annual passenger tire output of this base will

Source: China Rubber Journal

2017/07/07

Bridgestone Tianjin Passenger Transport Exhibition Publicized Safety and Environ- mental Protection

Bridgestone showed up with multiple major products and forward-looking technologies at the 2017 International Passenger Transport Equipment and Technology Exhibition held in Tianjin from March 30 to April 1, conveying Bridgestone’s enterprise spirit of driving “safe and environment-friendly” vehicles in the society. This time, Bridgeston

Source: China Rubber Journal

2017/07/07