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  • Bridgestone Vietnam builds 10th bridge in Soc Trang

    Continuing its journey of the “Bridges to Knowledge” project, Bridgestone Vietnam built and inaugurated the 10th bridge, Truong Tho in Soc Trang, on Dec. 27.

    The project was implemented by Bridgestone Tire Sales Vietnam Limited Liability Company to realize Empowerment (Committed to contributing to a society that ensures accessibility and dignity for all) and Ease (Committed to bringing comfort and peace of mind to mobility life).

    The two are part of corporate commitments announced under the “Bridgestone E8 Commitment” in March 2022.

    Soc Trang is known as a beautiful land rich in culture and home to the Kinh, Khmer and Chinese ethnic groups. Though it has advantages in terms of soil and water resources that allow it to grow a range of crops, the life and work of people here still face many difficulties in terms of the movement and transport of agricultural produce.

    For people living in Truong Tho hamlet, Truong Khanh village, Long Phu District, Soc Trang Province, the Truong Tho bridge built in 2008, located on the main road and connecting the village, serves the transportation needs of over 225 households including 153 children.

    The old Truong Tho Bridge was severely damaged on the side, its base had broken concrete and the iron reinforcement was badly rusted.

    According to the local government’s assessment, the bridge was damaged to an alarming extent and needed urgent investment in new construction to ensure users’ safety.

    Bridgestone Vietnam invested in building a new Truong Tho Bridge with a total length of 27 m, width of 3.3 m and a load capacity of up to three tons.

    This new bridge will enable hundreds of students to take a safer path to knowledge, help people transport and trade goods and agricultural products conveniently and improve safety for the community in general and residents of Truong Tho hamlet and Truong Khanh village in particular.

    This is the 10th bridge under its “Bridge to Knowledge” project by Bridgestone Vietnam, which started in 2019. The company said it would continue the journey of serving the community as part of its “Serving Society with Superior Quality” mission.

    Stressing the significance of the Truong Tho construction project, Naoki Inutsuka of Bridgestone Tire Sales Vietnam Limited Liability Company said the 10th bridge is a very important milestone for the company’s commitment to society.

    Bridgestone’s Truong Tho Bridge project received cooperation from the local government, Dealer Vu Manh Thang (Bridgestone’s distributor in Soc Trang), E-XPRO Advertising Company Limited and created enthusiasm among people in Truong Khanh village.

  • Apollo Tyres Collaborates With AWS To Make Its Factories Smarter

    Apollo Tyres Collaborates With AWS To Make Its Factories Smarter

    Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced that Apollo Tyres is going all-in on AWS to digitally transform. By moving all of its IT infrastructures to AWS, Apollo Tyres can use AWS’s broad portfolio of services to innovate new customer experiences while driving productivity, compliance, and process efficiency gains globally, across seven factories. Apollo Tyres will draw on the breadth and depth of AWS capabilities, including Internet of Things (IoT), data and analytics, and machine learning, to transform into an agile, data-driven enterprise. Using data from the factory floor and real-time information from production machines, like tyre rubber mixer machines, Apollo Tyres can expand operational intelligence capabilities and more accurately manage machine utilization, ensuring high-quality levels and machine efficiency. With AWS, Apollo Tyres is connecting all of its factories to the cloud this year in India and Europe. By 2022, Apollo Tyres plans to migrate all mission-critical enterprise applications, including its SAP applications, to AWS to enhance customer experience, improve process efficiency, and enable process automation.

    Apollo Tyres produces more than 2,425 tons (2,200 metric tons) of tires daily in its seven factories worldwide. Each factory previously ran their on-premises infrastructure in silos, which provided limited visibility into global manufacturing efficiencies. Apollo Tyres needed to upgrade its infrastructure to develop new ways of engaging with fleet operators, tyre dealers, and consumers while delivering tires and services efficiently at competitive prices. The company’s first step was to create a data lake on AWS, which centrally stores Apollo Tyres’ structured and unstructured data at scale. This data lake provides the foundation for an integrated data platform, which enables Apollo Tyres’ engineers around the world to collaborate in developing cloud-native applications and improve enterprise-wide decision making. The integrated data platform enables Apollo Tyres to innovate new products and services, including energy-efficient tyres and remote warranty fulfillment.

    Using AWS IoT SiteWise, a managed service that makes it easy to collect, store, organize and monitor data from industrial equipment at scale, and AWS IoT Greengrass, an open-source edge runtime and cloud service for building, deploying, and managing device software, Apollo Tyres developed an IoT-in-a-box solution. The solution connects production machines on the factory floor to AWS in as few as five days. Once connected, the solution captures data from multiple machines-including mixers, tyre building equipment, and curing presses-and feeds it to the data lake. Apollo Tyres uses Amazon Redshift, a cloud data warehouse, to create a global dashboard for visualizing production information from the data lake, providing business teams and plant managers with real-time visibility into the manufacturing process. This visibility improves production efficiency and productivity, for example by reducing the idle time of curing presses that shape the tyre in a mould by 50%.

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  • JK Tyres Registers Loss Of ₹ 202.15 Crore In Q1 FY2021

    JK Tyres Registers Loss Of ₹ 202.15 Crore In Q1 FY2021

    The Coronavirus crisis has not only disturbed the pace of the auto industry but also of its ancillaries. One of the biggest Tyre manufacturer of India – JK Tyre & Industries has recorded a loss after tax of ₹ 202.15 crore in first of FY2021 as compared to a profit after tax (PAT) of ₹ 15.68 crore in the same quarter last year. The company’s revenue in the same period went down by 55.91 percent at 1,138.14 crore as compared to ₹ 2,581.47 crore in the same period a year ago. JK Tyre’s operating profit in the same quarter took a major hit, witnessing a steep decline of 98.54 percent at ₹ 3.58 crore as compared to ₹ 245.69 crore in the same quarter last year.

    Commenting upon the results, Dr. Raghupati Singhania Chairman and Managing Director – JK Tyres said, “It was indeed one of the toughest Quarters ever. Economic activity, which came to a halt towards the end of the last quarter started slowly in mid-May. Our preparedness to meet replacement demand paid off well. As the lockdown was progressively eased we were able to cater to market demand especially in the commercial segment. In fact, the Company has achieved the highest ever sales in the Replacement market for its India Operations in June 20 which resulted in a growth of approx. 3 percent on YoY basis. OEMs volumes are still reeling from the impact of COVID-19, resulting in sluggish vehicle manufacturing”.

    The company also said in a statement that sales of commercial and two-three wheeler tires did well during the quarter. Plants have started operating from early June, but in terms of sales, the overall demand continues to be subdued.

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  • Nokian Tyres Says High Inventories In Europe To Hurt H2 Sales

    Nokian Tyres Says High Inventories In Europe To Hurt H2 Sales

    European distributors are holding back from buying costly winter tyres due to high inventories, Finland’s Nokian Tyres said on Thursday, adding it saw weakness in its Russian market too.

    “We expect short-term weakness in sales volume throughout Central Europe to continue during the remainder of the year,” Chief Executive Hille Korhonen told an investor call.

    Korhonen said summer tyre inventories in Central Europe were higher than normal, leading distributors to hold back on stocking winter tyres.

    “So it seems that the order intake is slower compared to many, many years and they will be ordering goods closer to the season,” Korhonen said, adding oversupply was putting pressure on prices.

    Korhonen said the company’s view on the Russian market had worsened through the year.

    “There is increasing uncertainty in the Russian market and my meetings with all key distributors in Russia earlier this month confirmed the weakness,” Korhonen said.

    Shares in Nokian were 3% lower in late trading.

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  • Kumho Tire auction to start in November

    Kumho Tire auction to start in November

    Creditors of Kumho Tire gave formal notice this week that they will hold an open auction for their respective holdings in the South Korean tyre manufacturer with preliminary bidding scheduled to start in early November.

    The creditors involved are eight financial institutions including Woori Bank, state-owned Korea Development Bank and KB Kookmin Bank. Together they own 42% of the equity in the tyre manufacturer, worth some KRW760bn (US$680m) based on the current share price.

    Kumho Tire graduated from a four-year creditor-led debt restructuring programme at the end of 2014 after it suffered a severe liquidity crisis in 2009.

    The 50 year-old tyre manufacturer currently employs around 5,000 people in South Korea. It has nine tyre plants worldwide, three in South Korea, four in China and one each in Vietnam and the US. It generated global sales of KRW3.04 trillion (US$2.7bn) last year.

    In the first half of 2016, the company generated revenues of KRW1.45trn and earnings of KRW55.8bn.

    The auction will be organised by Credit Suisse bank which expects the final round of bidding to take place in January 2017 with a buyer expected to be selected shortly after that. The controlling equity stake is expected to cost around KRW1trn, including fees.

    Park Sam-koo, the current chairman of the former owner of the company,Kumho Asiana Group, will have the right of first refusal to buy back the shares by matching the highest bid in the final auction. He has previously indicated that he would be interested in taking back control of the tyre manufacturer but it is unclear whether he has the financial backing to do so.

    Other global tyre companies will be given the chance to bid and private equity companies are also expected to feature in the auction.

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  • Batam to continue cooperation with Yokohama

    Batam to continue cooperation with Yokohama

    The Batam city government said it will continue cooperation, which began last year, with the Japanese city of Yokohama.

    Batam city mayor Muhammad Rudi said the cooperation would be continued as the cooperation has been a success thanks to assistance from the Yokohama city administration.

    “The assistance includes how Batam could reduce carbon gas emission and economize on power. At the airport and government hospital, power consumption could be saves by 30 percent,” Rudi cited.

    He said Batam also hopes that the Yokohama city administration to provide assistance in the form of technology needed for Batam development.

    “In seeking to reduce carbon gas emissions, denuded forests are a problem, therefore wee need more assistance to cope with the problem,” he said.

    “We are grateful with the equipment but we also need technology to use the technology products,” he said.

    Director of the Development Cooperation Department of Yokohama, Toru Hashimoto said Batam is the fourth city in ASEAN with which Yokohama cooperates.

    The three other cities are Da Nang of Vietnam, Bangkok of Thailand, and Cebu of the Philippines.

    Through the cooperation, Batam is expected to grow to be like Yokohama to become a smart city, Toru said.

    “Batam and Yokohama are equally good. In November we will have a seminar on Asia Smart City in Yokohama. We hope the mayor and deputy mayor would attend the seminar,” he said.

  • Michelin plans 20% increase in tyre sales by 2020

    Michelin plans 20% increase in tyre sales by 2020

    Michelin said ahead of an investor day on Monday that it aims to increase tyre sales by 20 percent by 2020, pledging to outpace the growth of the market.

    The group also said it aimed to double services and solutions revenue to 2 billion euros ($2.27 billion) over the same time period.

  • Bridgestone pulls out of bidding war for Pep Boys

    Bridgestone pulls out of bidding war for Pep Boys

    Japanese tire maker Bridgestone Corp said it would not counter Carl Icahn’s raised offer to buy Pep Boys – Manny Moe & Jack, ending a bidding war for the U.S. auto parts retailer.

    Icahn sweetened his offer for Pep Boys for the second time to $18.50 per share on Monday, after Bridgestone raised its bid by $1.50 to $17 per share on Dec. 24.

    Pep Boys said on Monday Icahn’s latest offer was superior to the deal it accepted from Bridgestone, and moved to terminate its agreement with the Japanese company.

    Icahn, whose latest bid values Pep Boys at about $1 billion, had reported a 12.12 percent stake in Pep Boys earlier in December and said the company’s retail automotive parts business would be a perfect fit for Auto Plus, a competitor he owns.

    The auto parts retailer has been on the block since June, when it said it was considering selling itself as part of a strategic review.

    Bridgestone had said on Oct 26 that it would buy Pep Boys to boost its retail network by more than a third in the United States.

  • Michelin to Open Rubber Plant in Indonesia

    Michelin to Open Rubber Plant in Indonesia

    Michelin will work with Barito Pacific and invest up to US$400 million (Rp5.1 trillion). The plant’s construction is scheduled to start in 2016, with the goal to have it begin operations by 2019.

    Both Michelin and Barito Pacific had also expressed their desire to develop rubber plantations in Jambi and West Kalimantan.

    Michelin plans to establish a joint venture with Barito Pacific’s subsidiary, PT Chandra Asri Petrochemical Tbk.

    Michelin’s plan is expected to help increase the absorption rate of rubber by Indonesian industries.

    Right now, about 20 percent of the national rubber production is consumed by the tire industry; far below Malaysia, China and India’s; each absorbing more than 40 percent of their production.

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  • Yokohama at new Indonesia auto show

    Yokohama at new Indonesia auto show

    Yokohama Rubber Co. Ltd. is gearing up to participate in the new Gaikindo Indonesia International Auto Show 2015.

    The event is scheduled for Aug. 20‒30 in South Tangerang, in Indonesia’s BSD City. Yokohama said it will be represented at the show by its Indonesian sales agent, PT Yhi Indonesia, which twice previously represented the tire maker at the separate Indonesia International Motor Show. Gaikindo is the Association of Indonesia Automotive Industries, and this is its first auto show, according to Yokohama.

    In keeping with the theme of “Delivering the Future,” Yokohama said its booth will feature displays that “appeal to the high driving and environmental performance” provided by its tires’ latest technologies.xa

    Considering the huge demand for eco cars and SUVs in Indonesia, the tire maker said it will display its fuel-efficient BluEarth tires suitable for use with eco cars and the company’s Geolandar line of SUV tires, as well as its flagship Advan brand.

    In addition, the booth will include a panel of Chelsea FC soccer players promoting the tire maker’s partnership, announced earlier this month, with England’s Premier League football club.

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  • Bridgestone to establish auto parts JV in Indonesia

    Bridgestone to establish auto parts JV in Indonesia

    Bridgestone Corp. plans to establish a joint venture company to produce anti-vibration rubber products for automotive vehicles in Indonesia.

    The agreement was concluded on July 2 with PT Astra Otoparts Tbk, which manufactures and sells automotive parts in Indonesia.

    The JV is to build a manufacturing plant of anti-vibration rubber products, which is set to start operations in January 2016, according to a Bridgestone statement. The total amount of the investment by Bridgestone and Astra Otoparts will be $13 million.

    Bridgestone has seven facilities in five countries to manufacture automotive anti-vibration components. To achieve further global expansion, the firm said it needed a manufacturing base in Indonesia, a major car making state in the ASEAN region.

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