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Heavy Treaddin'

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News and commentary on the state of the mining and tire industry from industry veterans.

• Added on: Jun 27th, 2007
• Country: United States
• Language: English

• Author: Kurt Hartman
• Listed in: Business News & Media
• Tags: china gold Tires silver mining tyres

Recent Posts

• New TIA Chief Croswell has Old School Geek Cred

  Posted on Friday December 11th, 2009 at 12:56 in programming, programmer, tia, tire industry association, modern tire dealer, tire industry news, wayne croswell

  I was pleased, nay…overjoyed…to read one of the latest interviews that Modern Tire Dealer has published at their site. Evidently, the new head of the TIA is a former programmer, with a degree in Computer Science. Wayne Croswell, (who has ...

• Earthmover Tires – Manufacturers and Customers To Pay More, Soon

  Posted on Tuesday December 8th, 2009 at 11:03 in malaysia, thailand, Bridgestone, oil prices, michelin, goodyear, steel prices, price increases, foreign markets, otr tires, otr tyres, price "upgrades"

  Lately, we have been getting calls here at the office that are rather puzzling: People are having a hard time finding certain sizes in stock for agricultural and earthmover tires. I find this rather odd. Manufacturers have been liquidating inventory ...

• GPX Tires Faults OTR Tariffs For Failure – What Happened…and Why?

  Posted on Friday November 20th, 2009 at 14:26 in china, Bridgestone, titan, triangle, cma, otr tires, otr tyres, double coin, tire tariffs, chinese dumping, chinese tire dumping, problems in the markets

  During the OTR shortage (which now seems like millenia ago), there was a Chinese company that made a name for itself, GPX.  Marketed under the names Triangle and Primex here in the US, their tires (along with CMA’s DoubleCoin) were the rare Ch...

• Mining On The Mend, But Will That Be Enough?

  Posted on Friday November 13th, 2009 at 11:14 in gold, australia, Tires, silver, mining, copper, aluminum, nickel, aluminium, mining news, casey research, doug hornig

  Right now, we are on the edge of a mining recovery. Some are forecasting a new boom within the next year-and-a-half, as the demand for for a safe haven from bad international financial policy grows, and the global economy recovers. The question I hav...

• Tire and Mining News Roundup: “Boycotting SEMA” Edition

  Posted on Friday November 6th, 2009 at 10:42 in india, china, gold, mining, twitter, sema, tariffs, rio tinto, dc shoes, jalopnik, stern hu, tire news

  Good day to you all, as you wearily trudge back to the airport with a big smile on your face. That is, if you were free to go to SEMA this year. I was not. There was too much work waiting for me here, and if I can’t go, who says anyone else fro...

• Mining and Tire News Roundup: “Finally” Edition

  Posted on Friday October 30th, 2009 at 12:04 in gold, recovery, silver, Bridgestone, titan, recession, over, michelin, goodyear, otr tires, otr tyres, paul tudor jones

  Welcome back to the Mining and Tire news roundup. Some interesting developments have taken place this week, and while I don’t see any game changers, they certainly point to some twists and turns over the next few years. First up, on Wednesday, ...

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