The Tire Technology International Awards for Innovation and Excellence have once again rewarded the tire industry’s leading manufacturers and technology providers for a variety of outstanding innovations introduced over the past year, the organization reported.
Presented in Cologne at the 11th annual Tire Technology Expo, leading industry brands and household names such as Goodyear, Yokohama and Hankook were honored alongside more specialist industry suppliers such as Allma and Reosense across a variety of key technology categories.
Goodyear scooped the Tire Technology of the Year Award for its innovative UltraGrip Ice+winter tires. With winters getting seemingly harsher for drivers each year, winter tires have never enjoyed greater levels of public interest, so it is fitting that the Goodyear UltraGrip Ice+ stud-less ice tire were victorious in the category this year. This impressive tire has been engineered to master some of the world’s most challenging roads, including freezing Nordic winter roads, and features, among other technologies, ActiveGrip Technology, which combines a dual cap compound with hybrid sipes.
The Manufacturer of the Year Award has this year gone Hankook in recognition of its strong financial growth, and for its significant investment in production sites and technologies to ensure world-class products, and to raise the company’s world ranking from seventh, to fifth.
The Environmental Achievement of the Year went to Yokohama.
