Industry News

Continental Expands General Tire Portfolio For Earthmoving Industry

Continental is expanding its General Tire portfolio for the earthmoving industry with the General TE95 tire. The tire impresses with high traction especially for soil compaction work in road and construction applications and like the entire product line is equipped with V.ply technology. With this expansion the General Tire tire portfolio grows to a total of 18 tire specifications for the earthmoving industry. The first General Tire earthmoving ti...

Yokohama Off Highway Tires (Yoht) Emea Largely Buffers Strong Cost Increases On The Market

Challenging availability of components Rising prices for raw materials such as natural and synthetic rubber Increased freight cost Most of additional cost will not affect YOHT EMEA customers (Alliance and Galaxy brand). The situation on global commodity and freight markets currently leads to major effects for Yokohama Off-Highway Tires in terms of availability of and cost for raw materials and shipment. Prices for natural rubber synthetic rubber a...

Goodyear Unveils The Efficientgrip Cargo 2

Goodyear is expanding its light truck vehicle product portfolio with the launch of the successor to the EfficientGrip Cargo. The EfficientGrip Cargo 2 offers greater tread durability as well as improved wet performance. “The EfficientGrip Cargo 2 is a new summer tire that responds to the needs of consumers in the rapidly growing light commercial vehicle segment” said Piotr Nagalski Director of Marketing for Goodyear Europe. Thanks to a new compoun...

Continental Expands Its Online Dealer Portal

Continental expands the digital online dealer portal ContiOnlineContact. The portal now lists the entire Off-The-Road (OTR) and agricultural tire portfolio. This enables dealers and customers from the agricultural industrial earthmoving port and airport sectors among others to order tires flexibly and on demand. With the expansion of the dealer portal to include OTR and agricultural tires service performance will be continuously improved and tire ...

Goodyear, Safe Ai In Heavy Equipment Partnership

Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co has entered a strategic partnership with SafeAI to incorporate tyre intelligence into the programming of autonomous heavy equipment vehicles. SafeAI is based in California's Silicon Valley in San Jose and specialises in retrofitting heavy equipment for autonomous operation in the mining and construction sectors. The partnership will see tyre intelligence from Goodyear's TPMS Heavy Duty rim-mounted sensors deployed at ...