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EU investigates alleged dumping of PCR tires from China

David Shaw — Fri, 23 May 2025 12:41:08 +0000

A group called The Coalition Against Unfair Tyre Imports (CAUTI) has made more allegations of dumping of tires into the European market by tire makers based in China. This time, the allegations address car and light truck tires. CAUTI previously (June 2017) complained against bus and truck tires made in China. It is not clear

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What is happening in China’s tire market?

David Shaw — Thu, 04 Apr 2024 07:01:00 +0000

China’s economy has been in the doldrums for the last couple of years, since the government ended Covid restrictions. That has had a substantial negative effect on China’s domestic tire industry. Nevertheless, there are some signs of recovery in the tire industry and also in the wider economy. We tend to think of the tire

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What changes will affect the global tire industry in 2024?

David Shaw — Fri, 29 Dec 2023 15:39:43 +0000

Earlier today (30 December), we published the January 2024 edition of our global tire industry newsletter, and distributed it to subscribers. In yet another bumper-sized issue, we bring you unique insights into: Global outlook for 2024 What the tire industry looks like in 2023-24 Two paths for tire makers A tale of two tire industries China’s

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EUDR set to create chaos in tire industry

David Shaw — Mon, 30 Oct 2023 16:41:44 +0000

Later today (31 October), we will publish the November 2023 edition of our global tire industry newsletter, and distributed it to subscribers. In yet another bumper-sized issue, we bring you unique insights into: EUDR triggers uncertainty EUDR causes concern through value chain ANRPC condemns EUDR Rubber causes de-forestation More details on 6PPD ‘ban’ DTSC gives detail

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EU to change tire labelling rules

David Shaw — Fri, 21 Jul 2017 11:09:11 +0000

The European Commission (EC) has announced its intention to revise the European tire labelling scheme. The Commission published a roadmap on 11 July indicating the timescale for this. The final revision is expected to be published in early 2019, and most of 2018 will be spent thrashing out the details of the revisions. Although a

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All the latest on China’s tire industry

David Shaw — Mon, 31 Oct 2016 13:59:20 +0000

This is the End-October edition of our monthly China tire industry updates. It is based on content from our weekly China Tire Industry intelligence report. Following last month’s revelations about Triangle’s over-stated revenues, there is continued evidence of the same in the company’s Q3 results where Triangle revenues continue to decline while those of Linglong

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Linglong posts prospectus ahead of IPO

David Shaw — Mon, 20 Jun 2016 10:01:43 +0000

On June 13th, Shandong Linglong Tires Ltd announced a preliminary notice of its initial public offering (share offering) on a Chinese stock exchange. The issuer’s stock is shortened as “Linglong tire”, stock code “601966”on the Shanghai Stock exchange. The company aims to issue 200m shares at RMB12.98 (USD1.97) each, raising a maximum of almost USD400m.

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China Tire Intelligence – May 2016

David Shaw — Mon, 30 May 2016 10:40:41 +0000

Following the successful launch of our weekly intelligence report on China’s tire industry we have decided to publish a monthly summary of the latest trends. By David Shaw Outlook improving We expect to see tire production volumes rise significantly in June and July. Orders beyond that period are uncertain. Last month we noted that some

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Why deforestation matters to the tire industry

David Shaw — Mon, 16 May 2016 15:56:27 +0000

Historically, the tire industry’s focus on sustainability has been driven by energy consumption and CO2 emissions. I know, because I just published a report on the whole subject of tire industry sustainability. Sustainability focussed on energy footprint It is drilled into tire engineers that around 80% of the total energy footprint of a tire depends

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DriveGuard changes the game for Bridgestone

David Shaw — Wed, 20 Jan 2016 11:05:28 +0000

Bridgestone’s European Driveguard was launched today in France. It was marketed as a ‘Game Changer’ within the tire business. At first glance, the product is just another runflat tire, launched 2 years behind its US namesake. But there is a story behind the development, which marks a change of game not necessarily for the tire

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