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TYREXPO INDIA
Tyrexpo Series May Travel to Other Indian Cities
Center for Automotive Technology (ICAT) and The Automotive Research Association of India (ARAI). Tyrexpo India provides a platform to buyers and sellers of tyres, garage and workshop equipment, and tyre accessories looking to do business in India. During show opening Sudarsan Varadaraj, Chairman and Managing Director, Elgi Rubber said, “I am extremely hopeful that the Indian tyre industr y will continue on its current upward trend within the international market which in turn will lead to even more professional products and services.” Elgi Rubber was also the co-presenter for the Tyrexpo Technical Workshop where various sessions on tyre repair technique training were held. Their tyre repair equipment was also sold to a customer by the second day. The fourth edition of bi-annual Tyrexpo is going to be held in 2017 with a widening portfolio. “We are
expanding the show space and make it a one-stop business platform.
The organisers are also planning to take the show to other cities in India. The show has been organised in Chennai from its inaugural event. “We are looking at other cities like Delhi, Mumbai and Kolkata as possible future locations for the show,” she said.
Meanwhile, SingEx is also toying with the idea of organising tyre conferences in the major cities as a build-up to the tyre show. “We are planning to organise conferences- cum-table-top exhibitions to promote and market Tyrexpo India to attract more exhibitors and trade visitors to the show as seminars cum business conferences are successfully bringing people to one place,” Hair said.
SingEx co-hosted the inaugural Tyre & Rubber Industry Leadership Acknowledgement (TRiLA) Awards
Opening ceremony of Tyrexpo India
The three-day Tyrexpo India 2015 organised from 7th to 9th July 2015 at Chennai Trade Centre, Chennai, attracted close to 2,600 tyre industry players from 30 countries, a growth of 54 per cent over the previous edition.
The show was thronged by Chinese tyre companies eager to sell their tyres into the Indian market due to stalled supplies to the US market as a result of anti-dumping duty imposed on the imports of Chinese PCRs by the US commerce department in early 2015. Almost 80 per cent of the exhibitors were from China. The Indian tyre industry is projected to be 191 million units by 2016 and the
is largely fuelled by the growing road infrastructure coupled with an increasing vehicle parc, plus radialisation and rising per capita income. The industry is also witnessing strong capacity momentum across all segments with the tyre makers preparing themselves to cash in on the expected growth in the auto industry.
This year’s introduction of several new programmes, including the ‘TyreTalk Seminar’, ‘Tyrexpo Technical Workshop’ and the ‘Awards’, helped to facilitate greater business and knowledge exchange amongst the participants. “More initiatives will be announced in the
looking at adding ‘Wheels & Rims’ as an expansion to the show, besides adding more exhibitors on the garage equipment and accessories side,” said Eileen Hair, Associate Director, Projects Management, SingEx Exhibitions. The organisers plan to add more products and segments to the show, which would eventually help in
with Tyre Times at the show. TRiLA Awards, a brainchild of Tyre Times, was created to bring to the forefront talent, achievement, excellence and quality products from within the tyre and associated industries. Prabhakar Tiwari from CEAT Tyres Ltd won the inaugural TRiLA Award.
Chinese are looking at
opportunities to hike their footprints in the Indian market in the light of over-production of tyres in China.
India’s tyre industry will see a significant boost in domestic demand for tyres in the next five years, according to Tech Sci Research on ‘India Tyre Market Forecast and Opportunities – 2019’. The tremendous growth momentum
next few months as we look to serve the tyre industry better,” said Adrian Sng, Director, Projects Management, SingEx Exhibitions. The show gets support from leading industr y partners – Automotive Tyre Manufacturers’ Association (ATMA), Tamil Nadu Tyre Dealers’ Association (TNTDA), Chemical and Allied Export Promotion Council of India (CAPEXIL), Rubber Board, Govt. of India, International
Blackstone Rubber Industries Pvt Ltd diversified its operations into precured retreading during the course of 2014. The company, which has a plant in Jodhpur, the second largest city in the Western Indian state of Rajasthan, has been in the business of retreading since 1985 and retreads around 500 tyres by the conventional process each month. Blackstone also manufactures rubber strips to support its hot process.
“We have persevered with the conventional hot process for quite a long time but with increasing radialisation, the time has come to enter the precured sector,” said Ankur Dhoot, Chief Manager, Blackstone Rubber Industries Pvt Ltd in an interaction with Retreading Business at Tyrexpo India recently. With this in mind, the company has installed two eight-tyre autoclaves for precured retreading sourced from an
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