Stories from the past 20 years of T&A
Our monthly magazine column looks back at the biggest news events from the tyre industry five, 10, 15 and 20 years ago. The August 2025 edition looks back to issues from 2004, 2009, 2014, and 2019 for some of the biggest tyre industry news of those months. Click the month and year to access the digital edition of the relevant issue of the magazine from Tyres & Accessories’ expanding digital archive.
August 2020
A new name in new tyre manufacture: Pyramids Tyres – a company based in Port Said, Egypt – began making motorcycle, forklift and agricultural tyres. The company planned to add car, truck and agricultural tyres to its portfolio by the end of 2022.
Cabot Corporation said it would invest US$ 950 million in upgrading its carbon black factory at Ville Platte, Louisiana, USA.
August 2015
Clearing up down under: in New Zealand Bridgestone signed an agreement to collect and recycle used tyres from its retail outlets in the North Island.
Having acquired the parent company of German tyre wholesaler (Ihle Baden-Baden AG) last year, this month Michelin purchased car tyre wholesaler Meyer Lissendorf.
August 2010
Alcoa recorded the landmark sale of its five millionth wheel in Europe.
A different kind of landmark, as Dunlop Aircraft Tyres celebrated 100 years of doing business. To mark the occasion, HRH the Duke of York visited the company’s factory at Fort Dunlop.
August 2005
Double celebration as Matador marked a century of existence as a business and eight decades of tyre manufacturing.
Expansion in the European battery market, as Varta acquired the European battery business of Delphi Corporation and claimed a 50 per cent share of the European OE car battery market.
