Author: Padraic Deane

The Tyre Trade Journal, out on Friday carries a five page special on the dangers associated with the sale and fitment of second hand or part worn tyres.

Garage equipment specialists, Techplus, is running a summer promotion that’s guaranteed to keep your compressed air flow in tip top condition. Techplus is offering a free High Flow Quick Release Coupling and Tailpiece with all orders received before July 31.

Michelin’s innovative Active Wheel technology, along with other mobility-related innovations from the tyre manufacturer, will appear in the FoS Tech Pavilion at the Goodwood Festival of Speed next week.

Ferrari has selected Bridgestone as one of its original equipment suppliers of tyres for the FF four-wheel drive sports car. Supplies of the Potenza S001 sport tyres to the Maranello manufacturer started at the end of 2011.

Next year’s Tyrexpo Asia is shaping up to be the biggest and most successful version of the exhibition ever staged in the Singapore Expo Centre.

The Road Safety Authority (RSA) is reviewing the issue of the sale and fitment of part worn tyres and is working on proposals on the subject in the context of the 2013 – 2020 Road Safety Strategy.

The death has occurred of Michael English, founder of Phoenix Tyres of Jones Road, opposite the Hogan Stand at Croke Park, Dublin.

Corghi, represented in Ireland by Apaseal, has unveiled a new clampless wheel alignment system, REMO, following successful trials in Italy last year.

Mitas Tyres Limited chose the recent Cereals 2012 to highlight its extensive range of high specification row-crop tyres.

Avon Tyres is urging motorcyclists to fit the right rubber to their motorcycles this summer.

To highlight Continental Tyres’ sponsorship of the UEFA EuroTM 2012 tournament, the company partnered with the Irish Independent to run a competition to bring two Irish footy fans to see the best teams in Europe in the final of the tournament.