SEOUL, Aug. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — As electric vehicles (EVs) rise as the ‘new standard’ in the automobile industry, tire producers are responding with EV-exclusive tires. Industry sources said almost half of all tire orders placed with Hankook Tire and Technology Co. for new cars were EV-exclusive tires. Hankook Tire has concluded contracts with 22 [...]
TORONTO, Mar. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — Gratomic Inc. (“Gratomic” or the “Company”) (TSX-V:GRAT) (FRANKFURT:CB81) (WKN:A2JAP3) is pleased to announce that Gratomic and Perpetuus Carbon Technologies Ltd. (“Perpetuus”), have agreed to enter into negotiations to form a Joint Venture Agreement to build on Perpetuus’ capability (currently (2018) to initially provide 500 tonnes of surfaced modified graphenes per [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s top automaker Hyundai Motor Co. said Wednesday that it has tied up with French tiremaker Michelin to develop next-generation tires for electric vehicles. The tie-up agreement on technological cooperation was signed between Yang Woong-cheol, a Hyundai Motor vice chairman, and his Michelin counterpart Florent Menegaux at Michelin’s [...]
NAMWON, Dec.29 (Korea Bizwire) – At a small village located in Namwon, questionable accidents of tires getting punctured have continued to occur since mid October. At first the incidents were shaken off and thought to be as accidents. But as the number of victims of punctured tires exceeded 10 vehicles in a small village with [...]
SEOUL, June 25 (Korea Bizwire) – Nexen Tire declared its plan to advance into the European market by constructing a local factory for the stable tire supply. Nexen announced that it would invest 1.2 trillion won (US$1.2 billion) to build a new plant in Zatec, the Czech Republic to advance into the European market by [...]
Tae Jung Technical MFG Co., Ltd. has fulfilled a noteworthy achievement through studies, reducing the weight of JACK ASS’Y, a core item supplied to General Motors. (image credit: Tae Jung Technical MFG Co., Ltd.) CHOUNGJU, Korea, Apr. 10, 2014 (Korea Bizwire) — POSCO Research Institute says, “There are megatrends that continually influence the future auto [...]
Hong Kong, Mar 25, 2014 (Korea Bizwire) – Connell Brothers (CBC), the largest distributor of specialty chemicals and ingredients in Asia-Pacific, announced today that it has partnered with Lehigh Technologies, a leading specialty materials company, to market Lehigh’s PolyDyne(TM) micronized rubber powders (MRP) to the tire and rubber industries in Japan and Korea. After initial success [...]