The new Carlisle Work Mate UTV tire boasts a variety of features, including a tread design that offers optimal traction and braking on different terrains and cross-ply construction for high levels of rigidity in heavy-load applications.

Maxam Tire North America Inc. has added two new sizes, 73x44.00-32 and 73x50.00-32, to its MS933 LOGXTRA forestry tire line, which is designed for skidder applications.

Well-known commercial truck tire expert Al Cohn recently died at the age of 66. During his career, which spanned four decades, Cohn worked for both Pressure Systems International and Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co.

Bridgestone Americas Inc. will raise prices on its OTR and ag tires in the United States and Canada up to 8%, effective June 1.

Global Rubber Industries Pvt. Ltd. has opened its newest rubber collection center in Sri Lanka as part of the company's Green X Circle initiative.

The Trail Tamer HD, a UTV tire from the Carlstar Group's ITP brand, is an eight-ply tire designed to be a utilitarian tool with puncture and impact resistance.

Love's Travel Stops has relocated its Plainfield, Ind., retread plant to a new, 200,000-square-foot plant in Mooresville, Ind. An Oliver retreader, Love's has six retread plants across the country and is the eighth largest operation on MTD's 2021 Top 50 Retreaders List.

Continental Tire the Americas LLC is filling out its construction truck tire portfolio, adding two more sizes to the Conti HSC 3 steer/all-position tire, plus retreads to match the ContiTread HSC 3 and ContiTread HDC 3.

Bridgestone Corp. is adding equipment at its OTR tire plant in Japan to "further enhance the company's production system in terms of safety, disaster preparedness, eco-friendliness, quality and productivity."

Continental has big plans for its material handling tire offerings, says Matt Futrelle, head of sales and marketing, Commercial Specialty Tires, Continental Tire the Americas LLC.

Pete's Road Service has added another Vipal retreading machine, a VOC 760 Cargo extruder, at its retread plant in Corona, Calif. "Vipal Machinery is getting more and more recognition in North America," say Vipal officials.

The Galaxy LHD 510 SDS (Severe Duty Solid) from Yokohama Off-Highway Tires America Inc. is built to provide wheel loaders with traction indoors and out while also offering long service.

Apollo Tyres is taking aim at the North American commercial truck tire market with the introduction of Apollo brand medium truck tires next month. The roll-out represents the culmination of nearly five years of research and three years of real-world testing by trucking fleets across various vocations.

It’s probably safe to say that as a product segment, specialty tires are not normally associated with e-commerce — at least in the minds of most consumers. But then again, specialty tire enthusiasts are not standard tire buyers, says J.P Gallagher, owner of Gallagher Tire, a specialty tire wholesale distributor based in Spring City, Pa.  And Gallagher Tire, he adds, is not your average tire dealership.

Amid all the strangeness of 2020, retreaders faced a couple of unusual circumstances that had the potential to shake up their business.

For many retreaders, 2020 wasn’t a year to invest in major expansion. As Michael Berra Jr., president of Community Tire Co. in St. Louis, Mo., put it, “2020 was a survival year.”

Love's Travel Stops has added six locations to its Speedco network. The new outlets are located in Florida, Ohio, Idaho, North Dakota, Alabama and Illinois.

Trelleborg Wheel Systems has launched its next-generation XP800 forklift tire range.

Despite enjoying 44% of the U.S. retreaded truck tire market through its Bandag brand, Bridgestone Americas Inc. is not resting on its laurels. In this MTD exclusive, Jason Roanhouse, executive director, Bandag operations, Bridgestone Commercial Solutions, discusses how Bandag pulled through COVID-19, high-growth segments of the market, the evolving demands of retread customers and more.

Bauer Built Inc. has promoted Wade Brantner to vice president of property and Andrew Thompson to vice president of technology.

Canadian Treads Corp. has opened a new Michelin Retread Technologies plant in Ingersoll, Ontario, with an initial capacity to build 350 pre-cure retreads a day.

Hankook Tire America Corp.'s new Vantra Trailer tire and its high-load variant, the Vantra Trailer TH31, target fifth-wheel trailers, campers, boat trailers, horse trailers, flatbed trailers and similar applications.