Bridgestone Americas’ newly formed GCR Mining business unit will operate under the auspices of Bridgestone’s Off-The-Road tire business.
BKT has introduced the Multimax MP 538, a new agro-industrial tire designed for different types of machinery and applications. Applications for the tire include motor graders and loaders operating on ice and snow as well as telehandlers, universal vehicles, and sweepers for road maintenance.Advertis…
Drought-friendly plant can produce rubber good enough for Indy race tires.
Bridgestone Americas Inc. says it is the final stages of selling 25 GCR Tires & Service locations and four retread plants to a couple of strategic buyers. The transactions will close later this month.
Bridgestone Americas Inc.’s truck and bus radial tire manufacturing plant in LaVergne, Tenn., is celebrating 50 years of operations in 2022.
While there have been – and will continue to be – changes in the touring tire market, the segment is holding steady and remains an important part of a tire dealer’s product mix.Advertisement The touring market, defined by Kenda Tires as metric or p-metric applications that apply to automotive platfo…
Autonomous food deliveries starting in California and Texas.
Scandinavian Enviro Systems has appointed Staffan Kullberg as new CFO. The appointment has been made to strengthen the company’s finance department in ...
/PRNewswire/ -- Bridgestone Americas (Bridgestone) today announced the launch of the all-new Firestone Firehawk AS V2 all-season ultra-high performance tire...
With a $550 million investment into renovating one of its plants, Bridgestone looks toward the possible future of commercial vehicle tires.
The Worldwide Automotive Fuel System Hose Market report by Industry Data Analytics contains all the market definitions, classifications, segments, applications, engagements, and market trends a user needs to succeed in the global Automotive Fuel System Hose market. In order to define the market’s de…
The tyre maker has partnered with local US farmers and native American tribes to increase the capacity of up to 25,000 additional acres of farmland for planting and harvesting guayule at scale.
The Tire Industry Association’s (TIA) Hall of Fame Committee has selected four new inductees for the 2022 Tire Industry Hall of Fame: the late Larry Day, retired chairman and CEO of TBC Corp; Christine Karbowiak, retired Bridgestone Americas executive; Joe DePaolis, tire dealer and former president…
A relatively quiet year in global tire industry investment into new capacity ramped up solidly in recent weeks, as large-scale expanion projects disclosed by Bridgestone Americas Inc. and Hankook Tire America Corp. pushed the industry total past the $7 billion level.
Tire makers large and small brought new capacity on stream in the past year in the form of eight greenfield factories and numerous expansions.
Bridgestone Americas Inc. will raise its consumer, commercial truck and OTR tire prices on Oct. 1.
With an additional US$42 million investment, Bridgestone Americas plans to commercialise its activities with guayule, a desert shrub that offers an alternative source of natural rubber. The aim is sustainable commercial production of guayule-derived natural rubber by the end of the decade.
Legislation that directly benefits independent tire dealers doesn’t come around often. But a new law and a recently introduced bill have the potential to boost many dealers’ bottom lines - and maybe your own.
Many of the top publicly traded tire makers posted higher sales in the first half of 2022, and several raised their fiscal outlook for the remainder of the year, though others expressed caution about the “headwinds” facing the industry.
Bridgestone Americas will expand and modernize its truck and bus radial tire plant in Morrison, Tennessee. The $550 million project is expected to create 380 jobs in Warren County.