The Tweel (a portmanteau of tire and wheel) has been a concept in the tire industry for some time now. If you're not familiar with that term, it refers to an airless tire. Michelin has been developing ...

The factory that Michelin North America dedicated today in the Greenville County community of Piedmont isn't anything like the other nine factories it has opened in South Carolina since 1975. The ...

There’s never a good time for a flat tire, but there are some times that are much worse than others. A sudden flat when you’re far off in the boonies on unstable, rocky, or swampy ground can be ...

Michelin has announced that their new airless tires, the Michelin X Tweel, are going into production. The company has been showcasing their innovative design for a while now, and they are gearing up ...

February 15, 2009 The Tweel is an non-pneumatic Tire/WhEEL combo which offers an idiot-proof, no-maintenance, easily-retreadable tire for consumers and the holy grail for the military - a tire that ...

The Tweel is an airless tire design concept developed by the French tire company Michelin. Its significant advantage over pneumatic tires is that the Tweel does not use a bladder full of compressed ...

GREENVILLE, S.C.—Michelin's airless tire development is taking Tweel further, expanding coverage while adding versatility and load-carrying capabilities to the nonpneumatic tire line. The South ...

The president of Michelin North America says air-filled tires still perform better on passenger cars in some respects than do Michelin's new airless tires, but the airless technology, called Tweel, is ...

A punctured tire is the definition of a bad day, but Michelin is taking some of the sting out as it announces the opening of its newest North American plant, which the company says is the first in the ...

I’ve never made a point of getting a photo of myself with a piece of equipment like some autograph hound after a celebrity, but I found myself doing just that with Michelin’s X-Tweel for skid steers.

PIEDMONT, S.C.—Michelin North America Inc. has budgeted about $50 million to convert a 135,000-sq.-ft. structure in Piedmont to the first manufacturing site for its non-pneumatic Tweel tire/wheel ...

Michelin thinks it may have discovered the future of tires with its Tweel technology, which doesn't use air and therefore will never go flat. The non-pneumatic tire instead uses rubber pieces in what ...