FORT MILL, S.C.—Continental has developed a mobile service app for farmers and others in the agricultural sector that allows them to calculate proper tire pressures for varying load conditions.

VIENNA, Austria—Edler Reifen, Austria's largest tire retreader, teamed with Italian retread technology firm Marangoni on its new Vienna branch.

SANTA ANA, Calif.—Yokohama has unveiled its latest regional-haul trailer tire, the EPA SmartWay-verified 114R Ultra Wide-Base (UWB) as a successor to the RY407.

GREENVILLE, S.C.—The U.S. Tire Manufacturers Association is calling on stakeholders up and down the tire supply chain, as well as government and academia, to get more engaged in efforts to increase the rate of recycling of scrap tires.

SANTA ANA, Calif.—Yokohama Tire Corp. has added a radial snow tire, the RSO2, to its portfolio of grader tires that's designed to deliver more traction and performance in winter conditions.

WASHINGTON—Buoyed by a stronger forecast for replacement passenger and light truck tire demand, the U.S. Tire Manufacturers Association has raised its 2019 U.S. tire shipment forecast.

HYOGO, Japan—Bridgestone and Toyo have agreed to sell roughly half of the shares they hold in each other, a cross-holding that dates to a business and capital alliance the Japanese tire makers formed in 2008.

SEOUL, South Korea—Hankook Tire & Technology reported drops in pre-tax operating income, citing "weakened consumer confidence caused by the global economic downturn."

WASHINGTON—The U.S. Tire Manufacturers Association is planning to issue a "call to action" on Dec. 4 at the 2019 Scrap Tire Recycling Conference in Greenville, S.C., to develop new "sustainable, circular end-use markets" for scrap tires.

DES MOINES, Iowa—The National Slag Association (NSA) recently recognized Titan International Inc. as its Allied Member of the Year, defined as an organization involved in servicing or providing products essential to slag-producing organizations.

AKRON—Smithers Group is planning a one-hour webinar for Dec. 4 on the use of silica in tire compounding featuring Bruce Lambillotte, vice president of technical consulting for Smithers and an industry veteran with over 40 years of experience.

HANOVER, Germany—Volkswagen has selected 18- and 19-inch versions of Continental's EcoContact 6 summer and WinterContact TS 850P winter tires for its electric ID.3 electric passenger car, due on the market by mid-2020.

LAS VEGAS—Nexen Tire has launched the Roadian GTX, an "affordable price-point" all-season grand-touring tire designed for the growing crossover and midsize-SUV vehicle segment in North America.

DIAMOND BAR, Calif.—Nexen is expanding its outreach to U.S. military veterans, pledging to donate up to $30,000 in matching funds to provide veterans and their families assistance for higher education through the Purple Heart Foundation's scholarship programs.

HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam—Cooper Tire's joint venture tire plant in Vietnam has started producing trial-run tires less than a year after Cooper and Sailun Vietnam agreed to form the venture.