Firestone has announced details of the long-term replacement for its F590FS tyre, a regular OE fitment on a number of mass-market hatchbacks and compact family cars – including the Volkswagen Polo, Fiat’s Punto and Stilo and the Skoda Fabia, since its release in 2000.

Bridgestone is providing opportunities for the next generation of budding motorsport journalists to reveal their talents through its 2007 e-reporter initiative.

In the last five years, Continental AG claims to have reduced CO2 emissions by more than 30% per product tonne.

The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. announced that it plans to invest more than $100 million to expand production of high performance and ultra-high performance tires in Poland.

Bridgestone Corp. expects profit to rise 5.8% this year due to improving sales in the U.S. and Europe.

Goodyear has launched a new tyre designed to replace the much-vaunted Eagle F1 GSD3.

Reacting to the growing Indian tire market, both Groupe Michelin and Bridgestone Corp. are looking to expand tire production capacity there.

South Korea’s two tire giants, Hankook and Kumho, are leaving huge marks on China’s roads.

Pirelli Tyre has taken a $875 million, five-year line of credit, which the tire arm of Pirelli SpA said will enhance its financial position and improve financial flexibility.

A proposed European directive on reducing noise from car and truck tyres has been put on the back burner, according to the lobby group Transport & Environment (T&E). The directive sponsored by the Enterprise Directorate should have been published last summer, but has been delayed on several occasions, T&E claims.

Nokian Tyres' Board of Directors has decided to start the expansion and capacity increase at its Russian factory. As a result of the start-up of Phase II, the output of the Vsevolozhsk factory will more than double with the target to reach the production of 10 million tyres by the year 2011.

Data from Chinese National Bureau of Statistics reveals 2005 witnessed a sustainable and steady growth in the tyre industry.

Continental AG will once again exhibit at the CV Show at the NEC in Birmingham in three months' time.

Pirelli has introduced the P Zero the Hero, a new ultra-high-performance tire developed for specifically for supercars, and a tire the company said was “directly derived from the experience the company has accumulated in 100 years of competition.”

New generation of summer tyres SQ-201 is designed for safe car handling especially on wet road surface as well as for minimizing of aquaplaning risk.

Continental Automotive Systems has shown off its smart technologies in an interactive display at this year’s Chicago Auto Show.

Nokian Tyres has introduced several new winter tires for the central European market.

Following news that it is raising the price of replacement truck and bus tyre prices in Europe, Michelin has announced its intention to raise the price of winter tyres for cars and trucks in Japan as of Apr. 2, in response to company concerns over material costs.

Bridgestone’s Brazilian subsidiary, Bridgestone/Firestone do Brasil Indústria e Comércio Ltda., has inaugurated its second Brazilian facility, approximately two years after the announcement of plans to invest in the State of Bahia.

China's State Environmental Protection Administration (SEPA) has reproached one of Michelin’s factories, the Shanghai Michelin Warrior Tire Co., for failing to alter its activities after violating environmental regulations.

Michelin has released a statement announcing that it will increase the price of its truck and bus replacement tyres in European markets.

Bridgestone has unveiled its first 4x4 run-flat for luxury sport activity vehicles (SAV).

IBM has submitted a patent application for a sensor that can warn drivers when tyre tread becomes worn down to 3mm or less, the level at which tests conducted for the British Rubber Manufacturers Association indicate that a tyre’s road holding ability begins to be significantly affected.