Demand for tyres has been returning fast in 2021, with global demand rising to 1.86 billion units according to new detailed market forecasting from Smithers.
On behalf of Automotive Publications, the Tyre Trade Journal, and myself, I would like to offer our sincere condolences to the family of Klaus Haddenbrock,
Continental has announced changes of the management of its political office in Brussels. Desmond A. Collins (65), is retiring at the end of this week, after having spent nine years in this role.
The cost of shipping containers from the Far East is now out of control. The latest quote we saw this morning for a 40 foot container was $14,500 for Shanghai to Dublin vis Rotterdam.
We regret to inform you that the death has occurred of Neil Robert Corrigan, son of of well known Navan-based tyre retailer Leonard and his wife Martina.
Continental was founded in 1871 as a rubber manufacturer. Now heading for its 150th anniversary, the German auto parts and tyre manufacturer has unveiled research it initiated over four years ago into it’s connections with Hitler’s war machine and the Nazi party from 1933 to 1945.
With a name like Clifford Bryn Jones, he could have played rugby for Wales but there were at least three reasons why he did not. Cliff Jones isn’t Welsh, he’s English. He isn’t a rugby man either, and as it has transpired, he was not one for short careers.
