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Independent grocery retailer Heron Foods has cut its annual tyre bill by 18 per cent after adopting a full Michelin tyre policy across its 100-strong fleet of trucks and trailers, under a policy managed by ATS Euromaster. The Humberside firm uses its delivery fleet to complete two rounds of multi-drop deliveries to stores each day,

Bartec Auto ID Limited (Bartec) has been officially ranked in the London Stock Exchange Group’s 1000 Companies to Inspire Britain, a report celebrating the UK’s most inspiring and fastest-growing companies. A family-owned business, formed in 1992 and based in Barnsley, Bartec is the global market leader in tyre pressure monitoring systems (TPMS). The company’s global

Goodyear tyre management support – in particular FleetOnlineSolutions (FOS) is helping Estron to focus on quality and delivery schedules, while ensuring minimum downtime for vehicles and reduced administration.  The relationship between the Rotterdam-based ship components logistics company and Goodyear extends more than 15 years, with FleetOnlineSolutions as a key element since 2006. With a modern

Flogas Britain has commenced a six-month pilot project to trial Michelin solutions’ EffiTrailer programme, in a move designed to maximise trailer safety, compliance, and boost efficiency through increased trailer fleet optimisation. Michelin solutions has retrofitted the programme’s telematics to 21 trailers divided across Flogas’ liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) and liquefied natural gas (LNG) tanker trailer

The Marangoni Group has sold its solid tyre manufacturing and distribution assets to the Dubai, UAE-based Onyx Group. The deal follows a binding memorandum of understanding signed between the two companies in January to expand cooperation in both radial and solid tyre businesses. Onyx Group is a conglomerate company based in United Arab Emirates with

Bridgestone has been selected by Alfa Romeo to be a tyre supplier for its first premium mid-size SUV, it was revealed. Engineered with Run-Flat Technology and designed with all season capability, the Dueler H/P Sport tyre from Bridgestone will equip the all-new 2018 Alfa Romeo Stelvio. “Bridgestone is honoured to supply tyres for the much

Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport, Mr Shane Ross, and the Department for Infrastructure in Northern Ireland, are calling on road-users throughout the island of Ireland to join the international community in support of the fourth UN Global Road Safety Week which will take place from Monday 8 May to Sunday 14 May. The Week

Autopromotec 2017, the international automotive equipment and aftermarket exhibition, which takes place in Bolgna, Italy May 24-28, is set to break all record this year. Some 1,700 exhibitors have confirmed their participation, with a significant share of foreign companies signing up for the international trade fair. This represents a 10 per cent increase in exhibitors

The new Continental PremiumContact 6 has come out on top in a comparative tyre test organised by Swedish magazine, Vi Bilägare. The Vi Bilägare testers fitted five brands of size 235/50 R18 to a Volkswagen Tiguan 2.0 TSI for evaluation. Testing was conducted last December at Continental’s proving ground in Uvalde, USA. The Continental tyre

Nokian Tyres is set to invest $360 million on a new factory on a greenfield site in Dayton (Rhea County), Tennessee, USA. The annual capacity of the factory will be 4 million tyres with an expansion potential in the future. The site will also house a distribution facility with a storage capacity of 600,000 tyres.

Specialist auto industry jobs website RecruitAuto.ie has welcomed the announcement by Minister Mitchell O’Connor that the annual unemployment rate has fallen from 8.4 per cent to 6.2 per cent in the past year (April 2016 to April 2017). The monthly unemployment rate now at 6.2 per cent. The Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation, Mary Mitchell O’Connor