Balkrishna Industries Ltd. (BKT) recently took more than 100 dealer personnel representing over 30 distributors from the Americas to Milan, Italy.
A major focus at next year’s Tyrexpo India exhibition in Chennai will be the development toward increased radialization of truck and bus radial tires (TBR) in India.
Tags: Radialization, TBR, Trade show, Tyrexpo India
Apollo Tyres Ltd. recorded net income of 980 million rupees on consolidated net sales of nearly 32.3 billion rupees for the third quarter ended Dec. 31, 2011. That compares to profit of 23.7 billion rupees for the same period a year ago.
Tags: Apollo financials, Onkar Kanwar, Truck tires
Apollo Tyres Ltd. produced its millionth truck-bus radial (TBR) this week at its manufacturing facility in Chennai, India.
Tags: Apollo Tyres Chennai Plant, Indian Truck Tires, Satish Sharma, Truck-Bus Radials
Apollo Tyres Ltd. recorded net income of 800 million rupees on net sales of 28.7 billion rupees for its second quarter ended Sept. 30, 2011. That compares to income of 500 million rupees on sales of 19.5 bilion rupees for the same period last year.
Pete Selleck, a 29-year Michelin veteran, begins his tenure as chairman and president of Michelin North America Inc. today (Oct. 17, 2011). Selleck succeeds Richard “Dick” Wilkerson, who is retiring to become chairman emeritus.
Tags: Dick Wilkerson, Pete Selleck, Truck tires
Harvey Brodsky, managing director of the Retread Tire Association (RTA), will be a featured speaker at the Asian Tyre & Rubber Conference, Chennai, India, Dec. 2-3, 2011.
Tags: Asian Tyre & Rubber Conference, Harvey Brodsky, Retread Tire Association
Continental AG is expanding in the Indian market. Following the recent acquisition of Modi Tyres Co. Ltd., the company has a new entity - Continental India Ltd..
Tags: Commercial Tires, Continental India Ltd., Modi Tyres, Nikolai Setzer, Passenger tires, Truck tires
With fill rates pretty decent for the first time this year, talk about a natural rubber shortage seems unimportant.
Tags: B.O.B., India, Natural Rubber, Price increases, Raw material costs
The Tire Industry Association (TIA) has announced the recipients of the 2011 Tire Industry Hall of Fame. The Hall of Fame inductions are a part of TIA's Tire Industry Honors event, which will take place from 6:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 31, 2011, at The Cosmopolitan Las Vegas in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Tags: Bill Fountain, John Gamauf, Onkar Kanwar, Ralph Snow, Roy Littlefie, TIA, Tire Industry Hall of Fame
Apollo Tyres Ltd. recorded net income of 771 million rupees on consolidated net sales of 28.2 billion rupees for its first quarter ended June 1, 2011. That compares to profits of 742 million rupees on sales of 18.2 billion rupees for the same period last year.
Tags: Apollo financials
For the first six months of 2011, Dan King, Yokohama Tire Corp. (YTC) senior vice president of sales and marketing, ramifications from the March 11 earthquake and tsunami have challenged YTC.
Tags: Dan King, Japan Tsunami, Yokohama financials
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