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EXHIBITION NEWS
RubberTech Europe Premieres Alongside REIFEN
will be one of the first European trade fairs at which a Chinese organiser can input its know-how," explains Egon Galinnis, Managing Director of Messe Essen. "Since 2007, we have been involved in the organisation of Reifen China in Shanghai together with our partner. In Essen, we will now add a new chapter to this cooperation." Brisa, the Turkish tyre specialist joint venture run by Bridgestone and
Lassa has opened the first in a new range of Propratik tyre service stores in Izmir.
The Propratik outlet specialises in Bridgestone and Lassa tyres for the truck and bus sector and will also feature a Bandag retread facility, in house.
Customers will be able to access a full range of lubricants, tools and accessories throughout the Propratik chain.
The world's premier tyre fair, Reifen, is to receive a reinforcement: As from 2014, RubberTech Europe, the new European trade fair relating to the stage before tyre production, will take place at Messe Essen at the same time. Messe Essen and the China United Rubber Corporation are the organisers. Both partners
premiere on May 27 - 30, 2014. The exhibition portfolio will include rubber chemicals and raw materials as well as testing machines and mechanical equipment for the tyre industry. Thus, the new trade fair will supplement the range on offer at Reifen: Together, both events at Messe Essen will portray the entire
Tolins Opens Tread Making Plant in Coimbatore
Kerala based tread maker Tolins has opened a new tread manufacturing plant in the neighbouring state of Tamil Nadu. The new plant has
while the plant produces around 1,800 tonnes.
Tolins is targeting the emerging automobile hub in Tamil Nadu.
been set up in Coimbatore with the capacity to manufacture around 300 tonnes of tread rubber initially. “We have invested about half a million dollars in the new plant,” said K V Tolins, Managing Director, Tolins Tyre & Treads. The company has a mother plant in Kalady, Kerala, having a production capacity of around 2,000 tonnes per month,
“Tamil Nadu is a big market and coupled with that it is an emerging auto hub in the Asia with global OEMs setting-up their plants in the state. Besides, the plant would also cater to the big local market in the state,” said Tolins. The capacity of the plant could be doubled depending on the demand.
Egon Galinnis, Managing Director of Messe Essen
have already cooperated with each other since 2007 with regard to Reifen China. The new German- Chinese joint venture was introduced at RubberTech China / Reifen China in Shanghai in the middle of November and met with a very positive response amongst the exhibitors and the visitors. RubberTech Europe will give its
value added chain for everything to do with tyres: from the stage before the production via manufacture and trading right up to retreading and recycling.
With the cooperation, Messe Essen will sharpen its international profile and will perform pioneering work at the same time. "The new RubberTech Europe at Messe Essen