**Page 1 and Back Cover 4mm gutter.qxp_front & back spreads 23/08/2021 12:11 Page 1 TRADE SEPTEMBER 2021 TYRENEWS THE NO. 1 MAGAZINE FOR THE TYRE INDUSTRY SEPTEMBER 2021 ON ROOADA . ON TRACCK. ON AVONNS. TYRE TRADE NEWS TYRE 1ST PLACCE R HO KUMHFORFO In the uto ld merAu ummBild tyrtyre summ test email: [email protected] Kumho Tyrre (UK) Ltd Suite 6 Hilton House Corporation Street Rugby Warwrwickshire CV21 2DN KumhooTyresUK KumhoTyreUK kumhotyre_uk www.kummhotyre.co.uk ESTE ABLISHED 18855 **INSIDE COVERS 3.5MM GUTTER.qxp_Layout 1 25/08/2021 19:13 Page 1 MICHELIN TYRES. TYRE RECOVERY LONG LASTING PERFORMANCE. ASSOCIATION BIG ATOM Tyre Recycling CONICA Ltd Credential Environmental Ltd Tel: 0151 363 2038 Tel: 01636 642 460 Tel: 01325 379020 www.bigatom.co www.conica.co.uk www.credenv.com DME Tyres Ltd Global Remould Services Ltd Midland Tyre Control Ltd Tel: 01543 677 758 Tel: 0161 342 7711 Tel: 01902 494613 www.dmetyres.co.uk www. globalremouldservices.co.uk www.midlandtyrecontrol.com PYRITE INDUSTRIES TYRE RECYCLING SERVICES Murfitts Industries Ltd Credential PTL Ltd Pyrite Industries Ltd Tel: 01842 860220 Tel: 01903 821524 Tel: 01444 232 220 www.murfittsindustries.com www.sussextyrerecycling.co.uk www.pyriteindustries.co.uk TRS Tyres Ltd Vellco Tyre Control Ltd Western Tyre Ltd Tel: 01524 69497 Tel: 01944 738 715 Tel: 0117 982 3801 www.casings.co.uk www.vellcotyrecontrol.co.uk www.westerntyres.co.uk TRA Responsible Recycler Scheme Members For a full list of members and affiliates visit www. tyrerecovery.org.uk PAGE 03.qxp_Layout 1 26/08/2021 16:00 Page 1 C o n t e n t s Industry News 4-37 Follow us on: Continental uses Recycled Bottles 4 Fisker & Bridgestone Sustainability 8 October 2021 Features T Private Page 1 Brand Tyres GiPA Forcasts EV Market 10 www.instagram.com/tyretradenews.co.uk Mobile Tyre Fitting Equipment Giti Launches European Off Road Tyre 12 Workshop Tools Davanti Vantoura at CV Show 14 TRADE Prometeon Expands Storage Capacity 17 TYRENEWS THE NO. 1 MAGAZINE FOR THE TYRE INDUSTRY Birla Announces Net Zero Emissions 20 Intelligent Anthony Gruppo - NTDA Keynote Speaker 23 www.linkedin.com/in/tyre-trade-news-1727693a Business Thinking Revised TyreSafe Awards 27 NTDA Conference & Dinner 28-29 Giti - New Winter Tyre 35 People in the News 37-39 4 x 4 Tyres 40-57 https://twitter.com/tyretradenews1 MoT & Test Lanes 58-61 Promote Your Business, Wheel Balancing & Alignment 62-63 Product or Vacancy Motorsport 64-65 www.tyretradenews.co.uk tyretradenews.co.uk Classified Advertisers 66 01296 655833 Tyre Recovery Association Members 67 www.facebook.com/tyretradenews.co.uk Publisher/Editor Jane Chenery Business Development Manager Maria Vowles Accounts Donna Wheatley Design & Production Megan Chenery Vol 28 Issue No 09 September 2021 ISSN 1476- 6744 Tel: 01296 655833 Email: [email protected] www.tyretradenews.co.uk UK Subscription: £75 pa Overseas: £100 pa Single copy: £8.00 (UK) Others £10.00 Printed by Micropress Printers Ltd Technique Media Limited, 9, Townsend, Quainton, Buckinghamshire, HP22 4BB 3 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means electronic, mechanical, photographic, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of Technique Media Limited Tyre Trade News & the Publisher accept no responsibility for the veracity of claims made by contributors, manufacturers or advertisers. PAGE 04.qxp_Layout 1 25/08/2021 19:32 Page 1 secondary raw material fibres perform Continental Enables Use of Recycled PET equally as well as the fibres used up to now. They have the same quality as Bottles in Tyre Production as of 2022 virgin PET, are just as stable, and are particularly suitable for tyres due to their breaking strength, toughness and thermal stability. Conventional PET has long been used as a material in car tyre construction because it retains its shape even under high loads and temperatures and thus ensures safety at all driving speeds. The use of recycled PET conserves valuable resources in tyre construction: today, a conventional passenger car tyre consists of around 400 grams of polyester yarn. This means that more than 60 recycled PET bottles can be used for a complete set of vehicle tyres in the future. Circular economy is an integral part of Continental's sustainability strategy Recycling is becoming increasingly important in the design, development and ontinental enables the use of polyester yarn functional for the high production of premium tyres. By 2050 at reprocessed polyester obtained from mechanical requirements of the tyre. In the latest, Continental aims to Crecycled plastic bottles, in its tyre the course of so-called upcycling, a PET successively use 100 percent sustainably production as of 2022. The new bottle becomes a high-performance PET produced materials in its tyre products. sustainable polyester yarn will be material. With the use of recycled PET, the tyre obtained from polyethylene terephthalate "As early as 2022, we will be able to manufacturer succeeds in taking a further (PET) bottles through a mechanical use material obtained from recycled PET step toward circular economy. process and will be used in the bottles in tyre production. In our "For us, waste is tomorrow’s construction of the tyre carcass. This can innovative recycling process, the fibres production material as we see the model completely replace conventional are spun from recycled PET without of the future in circular economy. polyester. Together with its co-operation having to break the material down into its Continental's commitment to actively partner and supplier OTIZ, a fibre components beforehand," says Dr. shaping and driving this transformation specialist and textile manufacturer, the Andreas Topp, responsible for materials, offers us a head start for our future premium tyre manufacturer has process development and business and thus for our future viability," developed a special technology to industrialisation in Continental’s Tyres says Claus Petschick, Head of recycle PET bottles, without the business area. He adds: "Already at this Sustainability at the Tires business area previously necessary intermediate year's IAA MOBILITY in Munich, we will of Continental. "Our ambition is clear: By chemical steps, and to make the present a highly innovative concept tyre 2050 at the latest, we want to completely with polyester yarn made from recycled close our product and resource cycles PET bottles. With the use of recycled with our partners and suppliers.” polyester yarn, we are taking another important step in the direction of cross- product circular economy." As part of the recycling process, the bottles are first sorted, caps removed and finally mechanically cleaned. After mechanical shredding, they are melted down and granulated; this is followed by solid state polymerisation and a modified spinning process. "Our modified manufacturing process enables us to obtain polyester yarn for tyre construction from PET bottles without any polymerisation process from monomers," explains Dr. Derren Huang, Chief of Dr. Andreas Topp, Head of Materials, Research and Development at OTIZ. Process Development and Laboratory and tyre tests conducted Industrialisation of the Tyres business Claus Petschick, Head of Sustainability by Continental have shown that area at Continental Tyres 4 For the latest news, subscribe to the weekly e-newsletter free of charge www.tyretradenews.co.uk/subscribe We care about tyres that care about drivers. Every day, for the last 150 years we have reinvented the wheel, striving to improve what appeared already perfect. #staysafe www.continental-tyres.co.uk PAGE 06.qxp_Layout 1 26/08/2021 14:17 Page 1 Michelin Tyres Rule the Fleet at Britannia Bus orthampton-based Britannia Bus, which operates five local service bus Nroutes, is on course to eliminate instances of punctures across its six-strong fleet after beginning the switch to a Michelin tyre policy two years ago. Managing Director Derek Taylor says he would previously suffer a puncture within the fleet at least once a month, but since phenomenal. I used to joke that you’d only fleet, Taylor admits to having been beginning the move to a Michelin X Multi Z need to look at our previous tyres and you astounded by the performance policy, the new tyres have delivered 100 could find a puncture! The difference improvement he has seen from a change per cent uptime. between the two is night and day, and in policy. “We are now fitting the best Taylor was introduced to Michelin after we’re only paying between £40-£50 more possible tyres on the market and saving joining a conversation on Twitter in May per tyre.” money in the process. It’s a win/win 2019 between the tyre manufacturer and a Each vehicle covers an average of 600 situation; and it’s great from a sustainability haulier which had recently begun fitting miles per week on a mixture of urban and perspective too as we’re travelling so much Michelin tyres and was seeing great rural work. Based upon current wear rates, further on every tyre we fit,” he adds. results. After exchanging a series of tweets Taylor estimates the Michelins are on track Michelin’s 245/70 R19.5 X Multi Z tyres with Michelin, he was put in direct contact to easily last 12 months longer than his are ideally suited to the firm’s full-size with his local Michelin account manager previous brand – with the potential to single-deck Alexander Dennis buses – and a change in policy was requested via regroove and retread the tyres beyond that delivering the optimum blend of safety, his local dealer, Tyres Northampton. too. mobility and road-holding, combined with Commenting on the decision to switch “We’ve not even got to the point of excellent mileage potential and reliability.