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July 19, 2017 12:00 AM

ETRMA boss: European tire markets facing further weakness

Shahrzad Pourriahi
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    London – A second-quarter reversal in European replacement tire markets could set a trend for the months ahead, believes Fazilet Cinaralp, secretary general of the European Tyre and Rubber Manufacturers’ Association.

    Cinaralp was commenting on ETRMA’s latest quarterly figures, which showed significant quarter-on-quarter declines in member companies’ sales – reversing a positive trend observed earlier this year.

    The data, published 14 July, showed a sharp slowdown compared to the first three months of the year. The trend affected all segments, particularly consumer tires which came in 6% lower year-on-year at 46.6 million units.

    Second-quarter sales of truck tires, meanwhile, were down 1% on the first-quarter-to 2.2 million units and agricultural tire sales fell 4% to 376,000 units

    This was in marked contrast with the performance of the market in the three months to 31 Mar, where the replacement market saw gains in almost every segment. This included a 4% rise in sales of passenger car tires at 55.4 million units.

    Overall, so, first-half sales of consumer tires were down by 1% to around 102 million units. Also, agricultural tire sales fell 2% to 782,000 units, while there was a 7% gain in truck tire sales to around 4.9 million units.

    In written comments about the sales trends, to ERJ, Cinaralp linked some of the recent weakness to a pick-up in demand ahead of price increases in April.

    “This led to a weak performance for the second quarter and we have lost, more or less, all sales increases of the first quarter,” the ETRMA secretary general commented.

    But, while waiting with interest for July figures, the ETRMA boss said sales reports from the tire distribution sector pointed to "further weak months and [an] impact on the whole-year expectation.”

    As a further concern, Cinaralp reported that resales for winter tires had also started very slowly.

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