Hankook Tire has partnered with DriverReviews, a platform for verified tyre reviews of current models in the UK, to help consumers make informed purchasing decisions.

The reviews provided by the consumers will be verified and published on the tyre maker’s UK website, making it the first tyre maker in the UK to do so. Hankook Tire currently has over 5,000 product reviews on its website.

Zoe Baldwin, Marketing and Communications Manager of Hankook Tyre UK, said, “As reviews have become a very important force in online consumer decision making, it seemed a natural progression to provide genuine reviews of our products on our website. This will enable consumers to make an informed choice when selecting their tyre brand. We have partnered with DriverReviews to ensure consumers are confident in their choice of Hankook tyres before purchasing. As the reviews are requested at three intervals of ownership, after 3 months, 12 months, and 18-24 months, consumers can provide the most accurate, honest opinions across the product’s lifecycle.”

Adam Butcher, Head of Product at DriverReviews, said, “We are very pleased to announce our partnership with Hankook – one of the fastest-growing and leading premium tyre makers in the world. Thousands of customers have already used DriverReviews to review and voice their opinion on Hankook’s wide range of high-quality and high-performance products, and it is exciting that our partnership will enable Hankook to syndicate these reviews into their marketing communications. It’s an important step for DriverReviews to collaborate with partners such as Hankook to ensure that more customers are given the opportunity to read genuine authentic tyre reviews to guide their future purchases and help them make the right choice in a sometimes-complicated customer experience.”

Although DriverReviews is currently only integrated into the UK website, Hankook plans to roll out across more countries in 2022. (TT)

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Hankook Tire has earned 11 podium placements in the 2026 WhatTyre Awards, marking its sixth straight year of recognition at the UK-focused honours. The awards, run by a specialist tyre news and comparison platform, spotlight leading products available to British motorists and rely on a scoring algorithm to rank top performers across the market.

The company’s 2026 haul includes three category victories, two Highly Recommended mentions and six Commended awards, reflecting the breadth of its portfolio and its emphasis on performance, safety and innovation. Its Ventus evo tyre retained the Performance of the Year title for a second consecutive year, with design features including an AI-assisted mixing process, extra-rigid sidewalls and tread blocks and low rolling resistance.

The Ventus evo’s latest honour follows strong showings in the 2026 Auto Bild summer tyre test, where it competed against 50 rival products, and the Auto Bild Allrad tyre test, which featured nine competing tyres. Hankook’s electric vehicle range also drew attention, with the iON evo named Electric Car Tyre of the Year for a third straight year after wins in 2024 and 2025, while the iON FlexClimate received a Commended award in the same category.

Recognition extended across SUV, summer, all-season, winter and super-sport segments. The iON evo SUV won SUV Tyre of the Year, the Ventus Prime4 was Highly Recommended in the Summer Tyre of the Year category, and the iON FlexClimate SUV earned Highly Recommended status among all-season SUV tyres. Commended awards went to the Ventus S1 evo Z in the super-sport category and the Kinergy 4S2 among all-season tyres.

Winter products also featured, with the Winter icept RS3 commended in the Winter Tyre of the Year category and both the Winter icept evo3 and Winter i*cept evo3 X recognised among winter performance tyres. The 11 awards across multiple segments underscore the strength and diversity of Hankook’s UK range, from sports and premium summer tyres to dedicated EV, SUV, all-season and winter solutions.

Complete list of winning tyres from Hankook:

1. Winner – Performance Tyre of the Year: Hankook Ventus evo
2. Winner – SUV Tyre of the Year: Hankook iON evo SUV
3. Winner – Electric Car Tyre of the Year: Hankook iON evo
4. Highly Recommended – Summer Tyre of the Year: Hankook Ventus Prime4
5. Highly Recommended – All-Season SUV Tyre of the Year: Hankook iON FlexClimate SUV
6. Commended – Super-sport Tyre of the Year: Hankook Ventus S1 evo Z
7. Commended – All- Season Tyre of the Year: Hankook Kinergy 4S2
8. Commended – Winter Tyre of the Year: Hankook Winter i*cept RS3
9. Commended – Winter Performance Tyre of the Year: Hankook Winter i*cept evo3
10. Commended – Winter Performance Tyre of the Year: Hankook Winter i*cept evo3 X
11. Commended – Electric Car Tyre of the Year: Hankook iON FlexClimate

Chris Anthony, Managing Director at Tyres & Accessories, Tyrepress and WhatTyre, said, “With 11 tyres winning, being highly recommended or commended in the 2026 WhatTyre Tyre of the Year awards, Hankook is arguably the most successful tyre manufacturing this time round. With hundreds of thousands of tyres in our database and multiple tyre manufacturers competing, that result is a significant achievement – that fact that Hankook's recognition takes place across range of categories that includes everything from all-season SUV tyres to super-sport tyres only serves to underline the point.”

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Maxion Wheels is celebrating a Guinness World Record set by Rainer Zietlow and the Challenge4 team, which it sponsors, for visiting the most countries in a continuous journey by a battery-powered electric vehicle. The team returned to Hannover, Germany, after 441 days, having covered 99,767 kilometres across 92 countries and six continents in a fully electric Volkswagen ID. Buzz fitted with Maxion light vehicle steel wheels.

The expedition commenced on 1 July 2025 at Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles’ headquarters in Hannover. It traversed major cities, remote regions, deserts, mountains and varied climate zones. The vehicle relied on Maxion’s 18-inch passenger car steel wheels, produced at the company’s plants in Ostrava, Czech Republic, and Manisa, Türkiye.

The achievement underscores the growing viability of electric mobility worldwide and the durability, reliability and sustainability of modern steel wheel technology under extreme real-world conditions. It also provided Maxion with a chance to engage employees, customers and industry stakeholders in the automotive transformation debate, as the Challenge4 team visited Maxion facilities in South Africa, United States, Mexico and Brazil.

The journey reinforces Maxion’s Look Again campaign, which promotes steel wheels’ continued relevance for electric mobility through durability, affordability, design flexibility and sustainability. This is the second Guinness World Record project backed by Maxion Wheels, following the 2022 Challenge4 expedition that reached the summit of Bolivia’s Uturuncu volcano in a Volkswagen ID.4 GTX, setting a record for the highest altitude attained by an electric vehicle.

Colleen York, Director of Global Marketing and Communications, Maxion Wheels, Iochpe-Maxion, said, “The transition to electric mobility is creating new demands for vehicle components, and wheels have an important role to play in that evolution. This world record put a series-production electric vehicle through nearly 100,000 kilometres of the most demanding driving conditions imaginable across six continents and 92 countries without a single technical breakdown. We are proud that Maxion steel wheels were part of that achievement, demonstrating the durability and reliability required to support the next generation of electric vehicles. The expedition also provided a powerful platform to increase awareness of the Maxion Wheels brand among audiences around the globe through a story of innovation, endurance and possibility.”

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Michelin has secured a significant expansion of its partnership with the DHL Group, taking over complete tyre management for 11,000 new all-electric delivery vehicles from the DHL’s Post & Paket Deutschland division. This brings the total number of DHL vehicles under Michelin’s care to 45,000 across more than 2,000 locations, covering a substantial portion of the German last-mile fleet operated by the world’s largest logistics company. The newly signed contract, valued in the mid-double-digit million range, extends for up to 12 years and deepens a collaboration that has lasted 14 years.

Under the arrangement, Michelin oversees the entire tyre lifecycle for the 45,000-vehicle Post & Parcel fleet in Germany, which consists mainly of vans and passenger cars alongside some trucks supplying parcel centres. Services encompass tyre assembly, seasonal switching between year-round and winter tyres, mobile breakdown assistance and comprehensive wear management. Michelin expects roughly 70,000 tyres to be changed annually, about 20,000 service operations and some 6,000 roadside assistance calls, each with a reliable two-hour response commitment.

To handle this volume, every vehicle is clearly identifiable, allowing Michelin to immediately determine the required tyre type when a breakdown or wear limit is reported and resolve the issue on site swiftly. The company deploys its MICHELIN Agilis CrossClimate all-season tyre and the MICHELIN Agilis Alpin for winter road conditions. A nationwide network delivers the service promise, with Euromaster managing DHL locations alongside more than 220 additional partners, while Michelin staff across Germany monitor quality from urban parcel centres to rural delivery bases.

The outsourced tyre management keeps Deutsche Post and DHL’s German fleet reliably operational, letting the logistics group focus on its core business. Michelin impressed DHL with a competitive tender offer and an innovative overall concept, including a more transparent cost structure and simplified processes for tyre management and roadside assistance. This major order for networked fleet solutions strengthens Michelin’s standing as a high-performance partner for large delivery and parcel services, particularly in the growing electric delivery fleet segment.

Eva Tschan, Director Connected Solutions DACH and Nordics at Michelin, said, “DHL Group assigns us complete responsibility for tyre management on the last mile in Germany and thus for the most critical part of the daily letter and parcel delivery. We completely take the work of our customer around the topic of tyres and ensure that the feed fleet stays on the road – reliably, predictable and efficient. Our aspiration is to make the complex topic of tyre management for the postal and parcel Germany division as simple and transparent as possible.”

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Tyrecycle has been honoured with the Closing the Loop Award at the 2026 WasteSorted WA Awards, recognising its groundbreaking InfinitySeries partnership with Fenner Conveyors. The accolade highlights a significant shift in how end-of-life mining conveyor belts are managed, moving away from traditional landfill or stockpiling methods that had long posed challenges for the industry.

Through collaboration with Fenner Conveyors, a genuine belt-to-belt circular solution has been established, recovering valuable materials from used conveyor belts and reintroducing them into the manufacture of new ones. So far, the initiative has diverted over 4,000 tonnes of end-of-life belts from landfill, with recovered materials incorporated into Fenner's InfinitySeries products, each containing a minimum of 10 percent recycled content sourced from locally recovered belts.

The award reflects the potential of coordinated efforts among recyclers, manufacturers and industry stakeholders to keep resources in circulation and transform complex industrial waste streams into new products. Tyrecycle extended appreciation to Fenner Conveyors, its customers and its team for bringing this circular economy innovation to fruition.

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