Tyres And Wheels: Global Sector Overview & Forecast

Table of Contents

Introduction

Pester analysis

Companies

Tyre companies

Apollo Tyres

Bridgestone Corporation

Customers and contracts

Infrastructure

Continental AG

Cooper Tire & Rubber Co

Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company

Infrastructure

Merger and acquisition activity

Organisational structure

Hankook Tire Co., Ltd.

Customers and contracts

Infrastructure

Merger and acquisition activity

Products

Kumho Tire Co., Ltd.

Kumho's infrastructure

Organisational structure

Products

Michelin SCA

Infrastructure

Pirelli & C. S.p.A.

Sibur Russian Tyres

Sumitomo Corporation

Infrastructure

Products

Toyo Tire and Rubber Co, Ltd

Infrastructure

Merger and acquisition activity

Products

Yokohama Tire Corporation

Infrastructure

Others

Al-Amoudi Group

Cheng Shin Rubber

Giti Tire

Lanxess

Maxxis

Multistrada Arah Sarana

ND Rubber

Nexen Tire

Nokian Tyres

PT Gajah Tunggal

Sailun Tyre

Trelleborg AB

Triangle Tire

Wheel companies

Accuride Corporation

Alcoa, Inc

AMW

Borbet

Central Motor Wheel (CMW)

CiTiC Dicastal Wheel Manufacturing

Enkei

Magnetto

Maxion Wheels

Mefro

Otto Fuchs

Ronal AG

Steel Strips Wheels

Superior Industries International Inc.

Topy Industries Ltd.

Uniwheels

Wheels India

Others

Forecasts

Tyres

Tyre pressure monitoring systems

Wheels

Aluminium wheels

Regional markets

Australia

China

Europe

India

Iran

Japan

Korea

Mercosur

North America

Other Asia

Russia

South Africa

Thailand

Worldwide

Steel wheels

Markets

Markets - tyres

Emerging markets

Market shares

Asia

Europe

North America

Market trends

Korean Free Trade Agreement

Winter tyre regulations

Markets - wheels

Europe

Global overview

Japan

North America

Other markets

Technologies

Technologies - tyres

Commercial vehicle tyres

Commercial tyres from Toyo Tires

Continental rolls out its VancoEco tyre

Light truck tyres from Continental

Yokohama Rubber's inner liner for commercial vehicle tyres

Other innovations

Passenger car tyres

Bridgestone's airless tyre concept

Bridgestone's Large & Narrow concept tyre

Continental's 'quieter' tyres

'Green' tyres

Michelin uses sunflower oil to make tyres

Michelin's Energy XM2 tyre

Yokohama lowers aerodynamic drag

Yokohama's material inner liner

Run-flat tyres

Bridgestone’s solution

Continental's solution

Goodyear's solution

Tyre labelling

Tyre pressure monitoring systems (TPMS)

Bendix's solution

Bridgestone's solutions

Continental's solution

Dana's solution

Nissan's solution

Technologies - wheels

Aluminium

Alcoa supplies lightweight wheels for the Ferrari 458 Italia

Alcoa’s Dura-Bright surface treatment

Alcoa's wide base aluminium wheels

Forged aluminium wheels can reduce carbon footprint of commercial vehicles

Forged wheels from Alcoa

Tomorrow's aluminium wheels

Other

Lightweighting

Thermoplastic wheel rims

Wheel development process

Wheel trims

Steel

Advantages of steel wheels

Light weight steel wheel under development

Tomorrow's steel wheels