Sunday, April 12, 2009

TYPES OF TIRES


Cars,two-wheel vehicles, trucks, construction machinery,aviation,tractors. Michelin provides innovative solutions for the diverse operating conditions commensurate to each vehicles.

Cars

Safety, value for money, comfort and respecting the environment is just some of the standards that guide Michelin analysis towards evermore revolutionary and high-performance car tires.

Motorcycles/Bicycles/Scooters

On two-wheel vehicles, grip and safety have to stay optimal, despite of the circumstances. Materials, tread patterns, structures...Michelin innovates and each time provides clients with new technological solutions

Trucks

Tires are especially crucial pieces of gear for trucking companies. Michelin meets their needs with increasingly impervious, robust and competent tires, whatever the pattern of driving and track. At the end of its prime being, a Michelin tire can be regrooved, then retread, then regrooved again! Among the global manufacturers, Michelin is the most passionately involved in retreading, and its R&D efforts are constant on evolving the superb carcasses apt of undergoing retreading once or several times.

Construction Machinery

Civil engineering combines very distinct activities and a large selection of equipment, projects and operating circumstances. Michelin meets the definite needs of professionals with goods and services that pledge an ideal level of performance and productivity.
Partnerships with machine manufacturers empower Michelin to envision tires suited to each vehicle and each variety of use. Functional as early as the investigative phase, this close detailed collaboration enables the tire to be developed according to the machine till the design phase and to refurbish the productivity of the machine-tire pairing.

Agricutural tire

A primary companion in the agricultural world, Michelin works in close alliance with the diverse manufacturers. Its objective is to refurbish machine productivity and restraint their impact on the soil.

Aviation

Aircraft tires are not subject to your usual operating circumstances and demand the development of definite technologies. With a infinitely development scope, Michelin meets the unique needs of its clients. In extreme conditions, the aircraft tire is adapted to boost the weight of civil engineering equipment while moving at the rapidity of a Formula 1 vehicle! At take-off, it must endure speeds of approximately 360 km/h upon a short span, while supporting loads which may surpass 30 tons per tire. At the end of the landing stage, its temperature can surpass 100*C, whereas in flight in the hold it is -45*C.