Article: Bridgestone investing in Mexico.

Article: TRUCK TIRE SUPPLY TO IMPROVE IN 2ND HALF.
Tire Business;  February 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ... ... that characterized the U.S. medium truck tire market last year is expected to continue ... OE demand will not immediately solve truck tire supply problems nor reduce the need to ... trucking industry of about 250,000 Class 8 truck tire orders, said Mike Fujimura, Bridgestone ...

Article: Group looking at truck tire testing standards.
Tire Business;  February 2, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... the ASTM in 2004 to form a task group to study truck tire performance and truck tire operating temperatures after it had completed ... tires, but when putting a 42- or 44-inch truck tire up against that same road wheel, it created ...

Article: Truck tire shipments drive April increases.
Rubber & Plastics News II;  July 20, 1998 ;     700+ words ... ... jumps in the light, medium and heavy-truck tire categories, U.S. tire shipments in ... over 1997. The original equipment light truck tire category saw the biggest gain, rocketing ... Original equipment shipments in the medium truck tire category were a close second, leaping ...

Article: Truck tire safety standard on way.(Special Report)
Tire Business;  April 10, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... Act mandates an upgrade of current truck tire testing standards, just as it did for ... truck retreads to determine what the truck tire testing proposal should contain, Mr ... contain a high-speed test. "The current truck tire standard has no high-speed test at ...

Article: NHTSA truck tire debris study due out.(Special ...
Tire Business;  April 14, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... release the results of a year-long study of truck tire debris by this summer. NHTSA commissioned ... evaluating the underlying causes of heavy truck tire failures, determining the extent of truck tire failures for retreads and determining what ...

Article: Michelin expands truck tire capacity in Nova ...
Rubber & Plastics News;  October 5, 1998 ;     700+ words ... ... is spending $57 million to increase truck tire manufacturing capacity by 30 percent ... at its Ballymena, Northern Ireland, truck tire plant to the North American market ... spending $80 million to add 20 percent more truck tire capacity to its Warren County, Tenn ...

Article: ASTM looking at truck tire test standard; Long ...
Rubber & Plastics News;  October 20, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... ago, all eyes were on the passenger and light truck tire industry. That sector, after all, was where ... the ASTM to form a task group in 2004 to study truck tire performance and truck tire operating temperatures. Ruip said he "was volunteered ...