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Hankook DH05 Radial Truck Tire
Hankook DH05 is a radial truck tire for mounting on a rear axle on your vehicle. It can be used all the year round thanks to its all-season tread picture. The tire is designed for regional and local cargo trafficking.
Hankook DH05 delivers reliable traction on asphalted highways where it can easily endure long-haul operations while at the same time it provides for a firm grip on local soil roads, in case you have to go for them instead of smooth asphalt.
The tire can adapt to various road surfaces and weather conditions. The tread is extra deep, which in conjunction with peculiarly-shaped blocks guarantees best performance level possible regardless of outboard conditions.
Hankook DH05 is equipped with powerful shoulder lugs to enhance traction and help tread elements clean themselves from mud and stones. Tread blocks are interconnected with the help of rubber bridges, which ensures even tread wear as well as reduce rolling resistance. The latter means your vehicle’s fuel-efficient operation and a lower level of CO2 emissions into the atmosphere.
The tire handles mid-distance driving well and won’t let you down in foul weather, showing excellent performance in the wet, on ice and snow.
Hankook Vantra LT RA18 Light Truck Commercial Tire
The new Nankook Vantra LT Ra 18 all-season light truck tire has been lately launched to equip vehicles for local cargo and passenger trafficking. It delivers exceptional durability, long life span and fuel efficiency as well as enhances safety, shortens braking distance and traction in the wet.
The innovative tire design includes sidewall protection from curb damage, optimized groove arrangement and a Durable Contact Patch, which ensures safe high-speed driving as well as minimizes tread wear and improve fuel efficiency by 13 per cent as compared to the previous model. Stiff blocks and a central rib help reduce noise level.
Hankook Vantra LT RA18 comes with a square contact patch. It features three wide circumferential grooves and a number of three-dimensional sipes to evacuate water from under the tire footprint thus preventing from hydroplaning and ensure predictable wet handling even in cold weather. The sipes also create sharp edges that allow for excellent grip on ice and snow.
On the inside, the tire is housed into twin steel belts, which increases durability by 12 per cent and lowers rolling resistance to guarantee superb fuel-efficiency, which is especially vital for commercial vehicles. Furthermore, the sidewalls are protected from damage in case of accidental curb hitting that happens rather frequently during in-city driving.
Hankook AH22+ Truck Tire for Regional Cargo Trafficking
Hankook unveils a new radial tire for trucks and buses. The premium-class AH22+ succeeds the AH22 model and features an enhanced tread picture, reinforced bead and a wider footprint as compared with its predecessor. The tire is designed for regional cargo trafficking and endures long hauls well.
Hankook states that the tire from its segment should be not only durable, long-lived and wear-resistant but also fuel-efficient. That’s why the tire’s casing was reinforced to evenly distribute load over the footprint area, which in conjunction with revised bead helps increase mileage. In addition, the AH22+ is protected from deformation well, which results in lower fuel consumption of the vehicle it is mounted on as well as in smooth running and comfortable handling.
The tire’s tread picture includes elaborate three-dimensional grooves to provide for excellent grip even when the tire is worn. At the same time new shoulder block design helps avoid damage from hitting while deep drainage grooves enhance braking performance.
Hankook AH22+ is compounded under the Innovative Mixing System (IMS) technology used for all the other truck tires from the company. In this model the compound is more durable than that of the AH22.
Hankook AH22+ comes to satisfy the need of most demanding customers and would be an excellent partner for lots of cargo trafficking companies.
Hankook Dynapro HL2 New Tire for Sport Utility Vehicles
Hankook launches the new Dynapro HL2 (RA35) SUV tire for the Chinese market. It is intended for use on in-city roads while its design complies with local cultural traditions. The tire is remarkable for its so-called “Chinese dragon” tread design, which helps Hankook adapt its tires for local markets.
The tire compound is molded into an asymmetrical tread picture with different outer and inner tread patterns, the inner-outer tread ratio making up 45 to 55. The inner tread picture includes a wide circumferential groove to ensure quick and efficient water evacuation from under the contact patch area, which prevents from wheel slip and helps avoid hydroplaning in the wet.
The outer tread is designed in such a way so as to maximize driving stability and increase safety level during cornering. There’re massive tread blocks on outer shoulders to provide for a firm grip and ensure excellent road-wheel contact even in wintry conditions.
The arrangement of tread blocks guarantees excellent driving stability, which is especially important in long journeys. In addition, the tire successfully handles wet surfaces, muddy roads and other unfavorable conditions.
Hankook Dynapro HL2 RA35 is made from innovative rubber compound that includes special polymers to make it more durable and wear-resistant. The tire is also equipped with a wheel misalignment indicator for customer convenience.
Hankook Launches the New Winter i*cept iZ (W606) Frictional Tire
Hankook tire-maker has recently unveiled a new tire model created specially for the Japanese market. The tire called the Winter i*cept iZ (W606) was worked out in Hokkaido and is promised to deliver reliable performance in wintertime conditions.
The tire tread surface is covered with three-dimensional Z-shaped sipes to enhance block stability. The sipes have sharp biting edges that act like studs cutting into ice and snow to result into constant footprint shape and a firm grip on slippery surfaces.
Excellent ice traction is also ensured by special fibers in the structure of the tire’s rubber compound while on wet roads deep drainage grooves instantly evacuate water and slush from under the footprint area, which helps avoid hydroplaning.
The Hankook Winter i*cept iZ central tread is comprised of stiff tread blocks to improve the tire’s course-keeping ability and provide for precise steering response. Shoulder blocks in their turn enhance straight-line as well as cornering performance and ensure a short braking distance anytime. Staggered shoulder blocks design helps further increase traction on compact and loose snow.
The tire shows even load distribution over the contact patch area, which ensures even abrasion and guarantees the tire’s long life span.
Hankook Unveils the New Ventus S1 evo2 Tire in Frankfurt
Hankook Ventus S1 evo2 is an innovative steet racing tire created especially for the Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters tournament. The tire offers excellent blend of stable wet and dry traction and complies with European tire legislation for 2012.
The tire is made under the company’s Multi Tread Radius (MRT) technology that helps create the unique contact patch shape to reduce the risk of hydroplaning as well as to help evenly distribute load over the footprint. All these provides for a firm grip in both dry and wet conditions coupled with reliable high-speed handling.
The innovative three-layer construction in conjunction with staggered block arrangement on a central rib ensures the tire’s stable performance and a firm grip during the entire life span.
Hankook Ventus S1 evo2 was compounded with the inclusion of silica elements as well as high-tech polymers into its structure to enhance wet traction while at the same time it reduces rolling resistance thus providing for your vehicle’s lower fuel consumption.
There’re dedicated “fins” in the grooves and two-step deepenings along outer shoulder blocks to prevent from heat buildup. It prolongs the tire’s life span as well as adds to driver comfort.
Hankook Ventus S1 evo2 belongs to ultra-high performance premium-class tire segment. It will be available this spring (2012) to fit 17-19-inch wheel rims. The tire’s designed for high-performance compact passenger cars as well as lux and sporty vehicles.
Hankook Ventus Prime2 Summer Tire for Passenger Cars
Hankook Ventus Prime2 is the new modification of an already well-known Ventus Prime summer tire launched by the company a couple of years ago. The tire’s tread picture was inspired by claws of wild cats and ensures an ultimate level of safety on both dry and wet road surfaces.
The blocks situated on outer shoulders features a claw-like design with Bionik elements that look like the claws of wild cats, which helps enhance traction when cornering as well as increase tractive force.
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The tread itself is made under the Multi-Tread Radius (MRT) technology, which optimizes load distribution over the footprint and provides for a stable road-wheel contact during emergency maneuvering and high-speed driving.
The tire compound is molded into an asymmetrical tread picture that includes numerous circumferential and lateral drainage grooves to prevent from hydroplaning and ensure precise steering response even on wet surfaces in foul weather.
Hankook made this tire from “hybrid” rubber compound with the inclusion of silica elements into its structure to maximize wet traction as well as reduce rolling resistance. The latter makes it possible to call the Ventus Prime2 an eco tire as it improves your vehicle’s fuel consumption and hence, helps reduce CO2 emissions into the atmosphere.
The tire also benefits from Hankook SCCT (Stiffness Control Contour Theory) technology that allows achieving good wear-resistance to prolong the tire’s life span.
Hankook Ventus Prime2 comes in 42 sizes to fit diameters ranging from 15 to 18 inches. Speed ratings go from H to W; Run-Flat version is as well available.
Hankook Kinergy Eco K425 Eco-Friendly Passenger Tire
Hankook Kinergy Eco K425 is an innovative passenger tire featuring eco-friendly properties and comfortable operation. The tire offers you an excellent combination of efficient fuel consumption and a high level of safety.
The tire’s rolling resistance is 12 per cent lower, which results into lower fuel consumption of your vehicle and hence lower CO2 emissions. At the same time, the Kinegry Eco tire helps reduce your car’s braking distance in the wet by 8 per cent in comparison to similar tires.
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Hankook used its innovative Kontrol Technology for this tire. The word “Kontrol” is comprised of “Kinetic” (movement) and “Control” and signifies the tire’s ability to enhance the interaction of the driver, the vehicle and the road.
The tire compound is molded into asymmetrical tread pattern optimized for better handling and lower noise level. Wide circumferential grooves effectively pump out water out of the contact patch area, which prevents from hydroplaning while sharp edges of lugs enhance traction on both and wet dry road surfaces.
The tire’s footprint area is made large to improve speeding up and braking performance as well as cornering stability and high-speed maneuverability on dry roads.
Hankook has been working under the H-LOHAS (Hankook Lifestyle Oriented Health and Sustainability) concept from 2008. The concept deals with eco-friendly technologies to reduce harm inflicted on environment and society.
Hankook Ventus R-S3 Z222 Summer Tire for Sports Cars
Hankook Ventus R-S3 Z222 is a summer Extreme Performance tire designed specially for sports cars participating in various kinds of tracking events like races, rallies and drifting.
Hankook developers targeted at bridging the gap between special racing and street tires with this model by maximizing traction on dry asphalt surfaces. Being a summer tire, the Ventus R-S3 should not be used in winter time including snowy and icy roads as well as low-temperature conditions.
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The tire was compounded under the company’s Racing Carbonblack Silica Compound (RCSC) technology to enhance traction. The tire profile was improved as well, namely its contact patch was significantly increased.
Hankook Ventus R-S3 Z222 features directional tread pattern with notched ribs, a wide central rib and large blocks in the central tread area, which altogether provides for stable and predictable handling. There’re also wide circumferential grooves in central tread and narrow grooves in shoulder areas that in conjunction with numerous lateral grooves remove water from under footprint thus ensuring great traction in the wet.
On the inside the Ventus R-S3 Z222 is comprised of two steel belts reinforced by nylon to provide for the tire’s durability and excellent high-speed stability. A two-layer polyester cord body prevents sidewalls from deformation as well as enhances handling and adds to cornering stability.
Hankook Launches New Enfren Eco, Dynapro HT and Optimo H426 Tires
Hankook tire-making launches three new tires this year. They were unveiled on the company’s dealer conference in Puerto-Vallarta, Mexico, and include a low-rolling-resistance tire designed for fuel-efficient and hybrid cars. It is called the Enfren Eco tire.
The Enfren Eco tire will be available in the second half of 2011 in five sizes to fit 15- and 16-inch wheel rims. It is made from silica-based rubber compound, which helps significantly reduce rolling resistance.
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New all-season tire were also shown at the conference. These are the Optimo H426 touring tire and the Dynapro HT tire for passenger cars as well as all-wheel drive vehicles and vans.
The new all-season Dynapro HT tire comes into succession to the company’s Dynapro AS model. It shows excellent traction on snow-covered roads as well as features low rolling resistance and a long life span. It comes on the market in the second half of 2011 with a wide choice of sizes – 31 of them – from LT 235/80R16 to P275/65R18.
The Optimo H426 is not a completely new tire. It has been used as Original Equipment for two years already and will sell as replacement tire now. It will be available in 28 sizes beginning with 175/65R14H and ending with R235/50R18V. Like previously-mentioned tires, this one will hit the markets in the second half of 2011.
Hankook also plans to complete its Ventus V2 all-season tire line-up to 22 sizes, which would make it suitable for a wider range of cars.