Category: Continental

A total of 46 new car models will fight it out for the coveted title of Irish Car of the Year 2026, in association with Continental Tyres.

To coincide with Ireland’s Tyre Safety Day which falls this year on Monday, 6th October, Continental Tyres is calling for stronger emphasis on tyre safety for learner drivers across Ireland who are preparing for their driving test.

Family-owned waste management, demolition and recycling specialist, Collard Group, has cited ContiLifeCycle’s sustainable retread tyres as the reason for a 50 per cent overall reduction in blowouts across its fleet within the last two years.

Continental Tyres Ireland is marking a decade of partnership with Blood Bikes Leinster, the volunteer‑run charity that provides a not-for-profit, rapid‑response medical transport service across the region.

Continental has launched the new Conti Urban HA 5 NXT city bus tyre, made with up to 60 per cent renewable, recycled and ISCC PLUS mass-balance-certified materials.

Continental is prioritising the use of renewable and recycled materials in its tyre production. While the share of these materials averaged 26 per cent in 2024, the tyre manufacturer expects an increase of two to three percentage points by the end of this year.

With the acquisition of an exclusive patent family and the commissioning of a newly developed pilot facility for the production of purified pyrolysis oil, Continental is harnessing the industrial potential of pyrolysis technology for the first time and laying the foundation for recycling complex rubber compounds on an industrial scale.

Continental supplies different tyre types in 16-, 17- and 18-inch sizes to Dacia, as original equipment for the third generation of the Duster.

Continental has been awarded the Kalmar Sustainability Award 2025 during this year’s Kalmar Supplier Day held in Szczecin, Poland.

Continental has rolled out an original equipment tyre line for use on driverless vehicles. The ‘aContact’ tyre family combines specially developed tyre technologies that meet the varying requirements and areas of application of autonomous vehicle fleets.

Goodyear Tire has announced the appointment of Jan-Piet van Kesteren as managing director EMEA and chief sales officer EMEA consumer, effective 1st September. He will report to Mark Stewart, chief executive officer and president.