Michelin North America’s (MNA) BFGoodrich brand announced the delivery of the first 5,000 Baja T/A military edition tires to the U.S. military for use on Humvees.

In the centenary of the firm’s involvement in motorsports, the most technologically advanced product to come out of Pirelli research, heralded as a revolution for the tyre industry, is about to be launched.

Avon Tyres has expanded its cold-weather programme with the addition of new sizes to fit a broad variety of popular high performance cars and 4x4s.

Toyo Tire & Rubber Co. has announced the sale of its Australian subsidiary’s automotive interior parts business.

Solideal is pleased to announce that Solideal Rubber Products (Qingdao) Co. Ltd has achieved the ISO 9001:2000 Quality management certification from Lloyds Shanghai on Apr. 25.

Coventry-based manufacturer of zero-emission commercial vehicles, Modec Limited, has chosen to fit Kumho tyres as OE on its range of environmentally friendly vehicles.

Toyo Tire & Rubber Co. is planning to increase production capacity at its Toyo Tire North America plant in White, Ga.

Pirelli Tyre’s operations in Romania ended the 2006 year having recorded a turnover of 60.36 RON (£12.7 million) and losses of 18.49 million RON (£3.9 million).

Invest ninety nine million dollars and plan to complete the construction in the second half of 2008 Kumho Tires (President, Se Chul Oh) founds a comprehensive TBR plant in Nanjing.

Matador’s machinery unit has signed an agreement to sell 10 tire production machines to China tiremaker Triangle.

Peterborough’s TruckFest show – an event co-sponsored by Dunlop Tyres UK – was chosen as the launch venue for new additions to two of the tyremaker’s new product lines.

Goodyear has launched the Dunlop SP Sport Signature, an all-season high performance tire.

Netherlands based Interstate Tire & Rubber Co. has announced the introduction of a new range of exclusive brand Interstate winter tyres for the 2007 season.

Goodyear announced that its new, ultra-high performance Eagle F1 All Season will be available to consumers this July.

The Yokohama Rubber Co. announced on May 10 that its net sales had risen 10.1% to 497.4 billion yen (£2.083 billion) in the fiscal year ended March 31, 2007.

Estimates put forward during the European Tyre Recycling Association (ETRA) Conference 2007 in Brussels suggest that at least 300 million tyres reach their end-of-life each year throughout the EU’s 27 member states, with similar amounts found in North America, Latin America, Asia and the Middle East.

Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. announced plans to offer 22.5 shares of its common stock, a move that will reportedly raise an estimated $725 million.

In late March, Hankook Tire celebrated a significant milestone – the 100 millionth tyre manufactured by the company in China came off the production line at Hankook’s Jiaxing facility in Zhejiang Province.

Continental AG’s consolidated sales for the first quarter of 2007 rose by 9.8% compared with the same period of the previous year to 3.964 billion euros.

Goodyear and the Institute for Advanced Learning and Research (IALR) are considering creation of a “one-of-a-kind tire performance research laboratory” near the tiremaker’s truck tire plant in Danville, Va.