Tyre Asia – May-June 2018

4 Tyre Asia April/May 2018

28-

36-

Perspective

Carbon black crisis looms

The world carbon black supply-demand balance is getting

tight. By next year, that tightness is likely to move to

shortages and allocations, observes David Shaw

Time for change in the rubber industry?

Ali Hines of Global Witness on industrial rubber

expansion’s recent devastating impacts on indigenous

communities and forests

Management

Recruitment and retaining talent

Challenge of diversification

Zeppelin, Germany-

based global leader

in Plant Engineering,

and Smart Controls,

India-based global

Digitalisation Solutions

provider, have become

partners in their

march towards the

future of Industrie 4.

innovations. While

Zeppelin’s focus is

on mechanical and

process engineering

and design, Smart

Controls’ experience

is in automation and

digitalisation

60-

Cover Story

Apollo TyreS

Inside

9

12-

11

16

18

20-

Editorial

The Big Bike Boom

News Scan

Letters

Spotlight

People in the news

Straight talk

European tyre market: One rule for all

European Tyre and Rubber Manufacturers’ Association’s

new President Franco Annunziato on the trends in auto

sector, regulations and changing consumer behavior

Focus

Growth in volume, value to continue

Art Mayer, author of Smithers Rapra’s The Future of

Global Tires to 2022, says the highly diversified global tyre

industry valued at $223 billion in 2017 is set to see further

growth

India on the cusp of EV revolution

An electric vehicle revolution is waiting to happen in

India, which has already announced phasing out of petrol

and diesel cars by 2031, says Puneet Gupta, Associate

Director, Automotive Forecasting at IHS Markit