The Sailun Group will open the Sailun Tire Americas Technical Center in Chattanooga, Tenn., that will design and develop passenger, light truck, SUV, CUV and medium truck tires, plus tires for electric vehicles.
Three different Hankook tires - one for summer driving, one for winter use and one in the all-season category - will be original equipment on the new Mercedes-Benz S-Class, depending on drivers' needs.
Bridgestone Americas Inc. has named David Colletti president, consumer original equipment tire sales, North America. He will be responsible for long-range planning, sales, operations, marketing and program management for the company's OE channel.
Nexen Tire Corp., parent company of Nexen Tire America Inc., says that since 2000 it has manufactured more than 500 million tires without a single recall.
The new Audi RS Q8 will feature the Hankook Ventus S1 evo 3 in size 295/40ZR22 as original equipment. Audi customers also can run Hankook Winter i*cept evo 2 tires on the car.