Bridgestone is ready to support the staging of the upcoming Olympic Winter Games PyeongChang 2018 – its first Olympic Winter Games as a Worldwide Olympic Partner – through a variety of product, athlete and education initiatives in South Korea. As part of its Games-time program, Bridgestone is supplying winter tyres for the International Olympic Committee
Optimizing overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) is key to maintaining productivity, ensuring workplace safety and delivering the best return on investment. For air tool users in industrial and vehicle servicing applications, a correctly installed and maintained air supply system is a major contributing factor to OEE – but one that can be easily overlooked or misunderstood.
European brand Vredestein’s Snowtrac 5, the award-winning winter tyres, feature in the Rallye Monte-Carlo Historique 2018 as the tyres of choice on the 1971 Porsche 914/6 belonging to Scottish businessman Sandy McEwen, whose co-driver, well-known Glasgow architect Alan Stark, is one of the Scottish rally scene’s top navigators. Only cars which participated in the Monte-Carlo
Close to £500,000 has been paid out in Northern Ireland as compensation to drivers of vehicles damaged by potholes in the last two years. That’s according to figures from their Department for Infrastructure (DfI). Over 1,900 vehicle damage claims led to compensation payments of £495,358, between January 2016 and last November (2017). SDLP Roads spokesperson
The Irish Tyre Industry Association (ITIA) is set to hold its AGM and Annual Dinner at the Gibson Hotel, Point Square, Dublin on Thursday, March 1. The Dinner will be a great networking opportunity for both members, their partners and staff and suppliers to the ITIA to discuss the opportunities and challenges for the tyre
Citroën’s new C3 Aircross, manufactured in Saragossa, Spain is rolling off the production line fitted with Hankook tyres as Original Equipment. The Hankook tyres used for original fitment on the SUV, resulting from the C-Aircross study presented in Geneva in 2017, are the premium comfort summer tyre Ventus Prime³ or the all-weather variant Kinergy 4S,
It was with great regret that I learned of the passing of Mike Scanlon, the retired publisher and former well-known editor of the UK tyre trade publication, Tyre Trade News. Having bravely bore illness for a number of years, Mike passed away peacefully in his sleep last Thursday morning. Those who had the pleasure of knowing
Steve Howat, General Manager – Technical Services, Continental Tyres UK talks through the safety implicatons of Tyre Pressure Monitoring Systems for fleets. Incorrect tyre pressure costs fleets money, that is the bottom line. An underinflated tyre creates more rolling-resistance, raising fuel consumption, and fuel is the biggest budgetary expense for any fleet, by far. A
GEM Motoring Assist is urging UK motorists to make regular checks on tyres, to ensure tread depths are sufficient and pressures are correct. GEM road safety officer Neil Worth commented: “We rely on our tyres to keep us safe on journeys. After all, they provide the only contact between the car we’re driving and the
Premium tyre brand Apollo Vredestein is celebrating the new year with another fleet win, after a successful 2017 during which the company won multiple new business in the hitherto unexplored fleet sector in the UK. Heathrow-based CCH Logistics’ decision to switch to Vredestein fitments (having previously used other OE and replacement premium brands) is testament
Falken has been confirmed as this year’s presenting partner for the Audi Nines, an annual invitational for some of the world’s best Skicross and Snowboardcross athletes, which takes place for the first time in Sölden, Austria on 14 April 2018. The Audi Nines event offers a combination of slope style and snow-cross action on the
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