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Yokohama has expanded its sponsorship with Chelsea Football Club to be a jersey shirt sleeve sponsor for the 2017–2018 season. The agreement expands on Yokohama’s ongoing official partnership with the current Premier League champions. In addition to the Yokohama Tyres logo that has been prominently featured across the chest of the Chelsea FC jersey, fort

Cooper Tire Europe has launched the all-new Discoverer S/TMAXX POR (Professional Off Road), a tyre designed for 4×4 driving in extreme conditions. The new Discoverer S/TMAXX POR improves upon the previously highly popular Discoverer S/TMAXX with the addition of a unique cut and chip-resistant tread compound. Like the Discoverer S/TMAXX, the Discoverer S/TMAXX POR is designed to become a tyre

Winning international design awards has become something of a habit for the innovative South Korean tyre manufacturer Kumho, and for the second consecutive year it is guaranteed a prize in the automotive and transport category of America’s International Design Excellence Awards (IDEA). The product that attracted the judge’s approval this time around is the ‘Birth

Davanti Tyres, a UK based, but internationally renowned tyre brand has entered into a commercial partnership with Everton Football Club, as its official tyre partner from 2017. A three-year commercial sponsorship deal has ben signed by Alan McTavish of Everton Football Club and Peter Cross, General Manager of Davanti Tyres at Goodison Park. Davanti Tyres was

RTN Clayton Vallely, manufacturer of specialist tankers for the environmental, food and chemical industries, has taken delivery of its 500th Xlite forged aluminium wheel from exclusive European distributor, MWheels. The Barnsley-based company, whose clients include Yorkshire Water, McVitie’s and Redway European, has specified the market leading forged aluminium wheels on orders since March 2014, primarily

Bandvulc has awarded Kerr’s Tyres & Auto exclusivity for its product range in Northern Ireland. This follows on from Kerr’s appointment at the beginning of 2017 as the sole supplier of Uniroyal TBR (truck tyres) for this region. “Having had a strong and expansive relationship with Kerr’s over the past 10 years this seemed the

The Tyre Trade Journal has learned that a final draft of The Waste Management (Tyres and Waste Tyres) Regulations 2017 is currently with Minister Denis Naughton, Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment. The Minister plans to introduce the new regulations on October 1st. The Tyre Trade Journal has had sight of the draft regulations and

Against a backdrop of frustration due to a lack of what he described as proper representation of the truck tyre sectors position in the negotiations on the new waste regulations relating to the Environmental Disposal Levy (EDL), Mark Kane of Midland Tyre Services Ltd wrote to Minister Denis Naughton last month. See the letter below.

It now looks like Qingdao Doublestar Tire’s acquisition of a 42.01 per cent share in Kumho Tire will go ahead. In March, China’s Qingdao Doublestar Co. signed a US$ 852 million)  deal to acquire this stake in Kumho Tire, but the process of acquisition was delayed over how much Kumho Tire should pay for the use of the

Sean Finnegan Commercials, the official agents for Josam – Truckcam in the Republic and Northern Ireland has changed its name to Finnegan Equipment Solutions Sean Finnegan told CVWorkshop.ie that the new name better reflects the company’s position as a leading supplier of equipment to the commercial vehicle sector. The Josam cam-aligner wheel alignment system is

Workshop equipment specialists, Tyrecare has added the Bright XTB1200 truck wheel balancer, to its portfolio of workshop equipment for commercial vehicle applications. In addition to the popular range of truck and heavy plant tyre changers from Bright Technologies, the XTB1200 balancer allows customers to accurately balance wheel sizes from 12-30” diameter, extending the life of