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The Korean tires company, Hankook is determined to increase its sales in the United States. It wants to push the sales of its tires to more than $ billion but is vary of the increasing oil prices. To do that, they have increased prices of the tires by 7%-8% and are planning to increase even more in the second half of the year says Chief Executive Suh Seung-hwa .
They plan to keep brand recognition as their main target to get higher prices and use requisite raw materials. They purchase 300,000 metric tons of natural rubber a year. Rubber prices were getting constant and stabilized from $6,200 per ton in February but the prices are high compared with around $1,600 two years back. He also said profitability looked foggy and vague the next year because of the other producers of tires leading to excess supply.
Hankook Tires is thinking of providing tires to other models of BMW and Benz. Hankook tires' global output will increase up to 120 million units in 2015.

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Consumer Reports is running tests on truck tire treads to determine whether discount tires offer a good value in terms of durability. The tread-wear test is more than double the mileage that's required by the government for grading tires per the Uniform Tire Quality Grading System (UTQGS).

The additional mileage provides a better assesment of a tire's true wear potential. The truck tires tested have UTQGS grades in the 500 to 600 range. Many manufacturers also market their truck tires with tread-wear warranties which indicate a mileage that the tire should last. These warranties are only a guide, because actual mileage varies based on how your drive, where you drive and what vehicle your tires are running on. The typical tread-wear warranty of many of the tires tested is 60,000 miles, while several models have coverage up to 70,000. Other models carry no warranty protection.

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Pirelli debuts its new supersoft compound tire, PZero Red at the Monaco street course. The supersoft compound tire is the softest of all four tire types in the Pirelli P Zero range and is developed particularly for the new-for-2011 GP2 car. Since the supersoft compound tire degrades faster than other tires in the P Zero range, Monaco will be the only GP2 round where Pirelli will run the supersoft compound tire.

This is because the tire will not encounter significant levels of degradation on Monaco's tight and twisty street course, says Pirelli's Racing Manager, Mario Isola. The Pirelli P Zero soft slicks will provide young drivers the grip they need to put on a great show for all their fans from 26-28 May. Moreover, it will give them an opportunity to try out a new kind of rubber.