Author: Eoin Cuttle

Hankook has this week signed a five-year agreement with Vaculug to manufacture Hankook’s Alphatread retreaded tyres in the UK.

Mercedes-Benz has chosen Continental tyre technology for the C-Class. The vehicle manufacturer is factory-fitting its current model series with two premium tyre products

Goodyear has invested $77 million (c. €73.8m) into the opening of a new tyre manufacturing facility in Dudelange, Luxembourg.

The BMW Group has selected Vredestein Ultrac tyres as original equipment for the all-new BMW 2 Series Active Tourer.

Michelin used a recent trade show in England to officially launch Michelin Connected Fleet in the UK and Ireland, its new brand bringing together all the fleet management services and solutions of the tyre group under one banner.

Sumitomo Rubber Industries is supplying its high-performance Dunlop SP Sport Maxx 060 tyres to Toyota for original equipment fitment on its first all-electric car, the bZ4X.

Continental has come out with a new generation of tyre service tools for use on both passenger cars and commercial vehicles.

A-Star Transport has already saved itself a potentially costly breakdown since protecting its fleet of coaches and buses with Wheely-Safe’s latest generation technology.

Yokohama has claimed it has developed a technology that can detect the wear condition of a passenger car tyre by analysing sensing waveforms transmitted by a proprietary signal processing technology from a sensor attached to the tyre’s inner surface.

Wheel safety firm Checkpoint has been acquired by tyre equipment manufacturer Martins Industries.

Prinx Chengshan, manufacturers of the Austone range of tyres, which are distributed in Ireland by Euro Tyre Sales, has received the TÜV SÜD test mark for its new DR606 drive axle tyre.