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Kuwait recycling 42 million dumped tyres. 17 years of dumping has amassed a “tyre graveyard” over 42 million vehicle tyres in Kuwait. According to EuroNews.Green, this has resulted in clouds of toxic black smoke when set alight, creating an “immense environmental risk for residents”.

Do you want to start saving money and downtime on those nuisance punctures? Then come and visit our Stand A40 and discuss the many benefits with our friendly team.

The show runs until Thursday this week. Our slogan says it all – ‘It just works’!!

A tyre flipping contest in Newcastle has achieved a new Guinness world record. The event which took place in Blackett Street, Newcastle city centre 14-15 August was sponsored by Continental agricultural tyres and featured a Tractor70 tyre weighing 100 kilos for the men and a 70 kilo CompactMaster AG telehandler tyre for women.

A new world record was recorded for the men’s 100 kilo 12-hour tyre flip with a distance of 10.725 kilometres becoming the new benchmark.

We are excited to share with you our new Introductory Film.

If you have ever wondered who we are and what we do our short film captures this wonderfully.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRwXhE29q_s

Thank you to Alex Giles and Alex Jones.

The Air-Seal Products team are getting excited as we prepare for 3 trades shows next month.

The Commercial Vehicle Show, Vertikal Days and RWM were all cancelled in 2020 having had the forced break due to restrictions. So we are pleased to be back exhibiting at all three shows and looking forward to meeting new contacts and catching up with our regular customers.

See our events tab to left for more information and to find out our stand numbers.

We have now received our new sturdy boxes to ensure your 20 litre pails of product get to you in the best condition possible. Protecting your goods and making them easier to handle.

All orders of 1-6 x 20 litre pails will now come with these.

At Air-Seal we want our customers to be able to use their tyre sealant as quickly as possible which is why we try our hardest to have it delivered within 2 working days.
There are no guarantees but we try our best!

After 3 years of not shooting clays and our MD, Alex Burnand, came out of retirement to take this years Somerset County Trap (Clay Pigeon Shooting) Championship, pushed hard by Abby Ling, Alex held on forcing Abby to have to shoot a straight on her last layout, Alex came out 1 ahead in the finish with a score of 88 to Abby’s 87.  Good effort Alex.

Take a look at our first newsletter, giving you an insight into the world of Air-Seal.

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Almost one in three parents could be driving their kids around on dangerous tyres, according to new research from Protyre.

The alarming findings come from a new online YouGov survey commissioned by Protyre – the UK’s fastest growing tyre retailer– as part of this year’s nationwide Tyre Safety Month.

In the YouGov survey, Protyre found that just under a third of British parents with children aged 18 and under who own a car admitted to only checking the safety of their tyres every three months or less, with some not checking them at all.

Further survey findings showed that parents regularly check more visible child safety equipment, such as seat belts and car seats than they did their tyres.

The survey results also raised serious concerns about parents’ priorities when carrying out essential child safety checks on their car before setting off on a journey. While over three fifths of parents who own a car said checking their child had been to the toilet was important, only just over half (52%) considered checking tyres to be important.

The prioritising of toilet checks over tyre checks is an alarming finding but there was some positive encouragement, with over three in four (76%) of parents surveyed saying that they consider tyre safety to be very important.

However, stats on demounted tyres below the legal tread depth, recorded monthly by Protyre, suggest that motorists, including parents, may only be paying lip service to the notion of tyre safety.

From 2018 when the number of illegal tyres taken off at Protyre centres hit an all-time high of 58.9%, the figure has remained fairly constant around the 58% mark. It’s further compelling evidence that while the public may recognise the importance of tyre safety, they are not putting that awareness into practice by carrying out regular tyre checks.

Simon Hiorns, Protyre Retail Director, said: “These findings from our latest survey are very alarming and raise concerns about how much the public are taking on board the importance of tyre safety.

“As part of TyreSafe Tyre Safety month, Protyre wants to remind parents and motorists generally, that tyre safety is just as important as things like seat belts and child car seats.

“It’s extremely concerning, as our survey results show, that parents are failing to carry out frequent and adequate enough checks on their vehicle’s tyres and as a result are putting their children at risk by driving on potentially dangerous tyres.

“This year’s Tyre Safety Month campaign message to motorists is to ACT; a call to action to check tyres a least once a month for Air pressure, Condition and Tread depth. By using this easy to remember acronym motorists can act now to ensure their tyres are safe.

“If drivers need further advice and help with checking their tyres, Protyre will be carrying out free tyre checks across our 200 strong UK wide fast fit Autocentre network throughout Tyre Safety Month.”

Tyre Safety Month, which runs throughout October, is organised and promoted by national tyre safety charity, TyreSafe. For more details on Tyre Safety Month visit https://www.tyresafe.org/campaigns/tyre-safety-month/

The team managed to squeeze in a celebratory socially distanced bbq a few weeks ago to celebrate the end of furlough and also their 20th year in business. Not quite the challenge of trekking Mount Snowdon as planned but fingers crossed for next year.