Welcome to Tire Industry Research To keep up to date and get full FREE access to our commentaries enter your username and password below or register here Username Password Remember me Forgot Password Latest News7 September, 2016Tire industry needs to move onI think the tire industry is going through another major transformation. Since I started analysing this industry in the late 1980s I’ve seen only two or maybe three such large-scale transformations. To give you an idea of the scale of transformation I am talking about, think of the switch from bias-ply to radial construction in […]Read more...31 August, 2016China Tire Intelligence August 2016Continuing our reporting on developments in China’s tire industry, August has been an active month, with IPO approvals given to both Triangle and GST. Triangle’s is going well, with the share price of RMB22.07 raising up to USD640m. The 30% share that was sold online was over-subscribed by a factor of over 2000 times. (See […]Read more...22 August, 2016Triangle issues share prospectusLast week, after many delays, Triangle Tire finally launched a programme to sell up to 200m shares on the Shanghai stock exchange. The issue price will be RMB22.07/share, leading to a potential gain of RMB 4285m (USD 641m) after costs and charges. The issue is scheduled to take place in the first half of September. […]Read more...3 August, 2016What really happens when the rubber meets the roadWhere grip comes from No-one knows the truth about how tires get their grip. We have a pretty good idea, but we don’t know everything about it. We know, for example that grip is associated with a number of factors: Rubber distorting around and engaging with microscopic asperities in the road surface; Weak chemical interactions […]Read more...31 July, 2016China Tire Intelligence – July 2016The biggest news in the China tire industry over the last weeks has been the IPO share issue of Linglong. It was a great success, with the Linglong share price rising 44% on the first day of trading and subsequently climbing to three times the issue price of RMB12.98. We have to ask: was the […]Read more...
