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BTMA ACTIVITES

  • To improve understanding amongst customers and suppliers, amongst users and the general public
  • To provide protection against misinformation
  • To achieve an appropriate, and globally competitive, legislative and regulatory environment for the industry
  • To influence EU & International Forums
  • To help members compete more effectively at home and abroad
  • To improve training of industry's technical staff
  • To provide valuable information about the tyre industry 
  • To facilitate research and development
  • To improve health, safety and environment management
  • To promote good energy management practices 
  • To provide discussion forum

Promoting and understanding


Improving understanding amongst customers and suppliers

BTMA promotes its members' interests to customers and suppliers.

  • BTMA answers about 1000 telephone and other enquiries per year from suppliers and potential customers of the tyre industry.
  • BTMA develops new links with customers
  • BTMA develops new areas of advice and assistance to tyre retailers through the Tyre Technical Committee
  • BTMA develops new marketing initiatives according to members' wishes.
  • Improving understanding amongst users and the general public.

BTMA monitors the media

BTMA provides awareness reports, for example on:

  • Used tyres
  • Tyres in use (e.g. effects of tread depth on stopping distances)
  • BTMA counters misinformation
  • BTMA reviews and develops PR strategy
  • Issues press releases
  • Provides proactive briefings to national and trade press
  • Maintains links with environmental press

BTMA seeks opportunities to promote its members' interests

  • BTMA presents papers at regional and other meetings of Institute of Materials
  • Participates in seminars/conference on waste management issuesRegularly liaises with key movers and stakeholders (especially within Government).


Influencing Legislators


Working to achieve an appropriate, and globally competitive, legislative and regulatory environment for the industry. BTMA influences UK regulators and promotes members' interests with UK legislators

BTMA influences key Government Departments to secure:

  • Changes to legislation
  • Improvements in Regulations
  • Satisfactory implementation of legislation in the UK
  • Fair and proportionate applications and enforcement of legislation in the UK

BTMA monitors application of EU Directives into UK law

  • BTMA intervenes with authorities in members' interests
  • Contributes to relevant work on development of new standards 
  • Prepares industry responses to new legislative consultative papers
  • Briefs DTI on industry position
  • Influences CEN Standards
  • Responds to HSE / Environment Agency proposals on health and safety and evironmental matters.
BTMA seek to amend or discourage EU legislation where it is against the industry's interests
  • Through ETRMA, or ETRTO, BRMA monitors new proposals and lobbies Commission/European Parliament as appropriate.
  • Participates in ETRMA groups on Used Tyres, Health and Safety and Environment.
  • BTMA has Chairmanship / membership of ETRMA working groups for :

    • Retreading
    • Toluene
    • Carbon black
    • Crystalline silica
    • VOCs
    • Zinc oxide
    • Butadiene
Improving Competitiveness

Helping members compete more effectively at home and abroad

  • BTMA plays a determining role in projects to improve competitiveness of the rubber industry

Improving training of industry's technical staff


BTMA works towards ensuring that an adequate supply of staff with the right skills is available to industry

  • BTMA actively promotes and facilitates the discussion of industry's training and education needs.

Promoting members' export potential


BTMA assists members in competing more effectively abroad

  • BTMA can arrange for details of BTMA members to be registered
  • Takes action to improve access to third party markets, especially tyres.

Providing valuable information

  • BTMA undertakes new analysis & statistical reports of the tyre market
  • Disseminates information on new legislation on employment
  • Provides guidance to members on sources of advice on developments
  • Ensures members have full awareness of new legislation/Government initiatives and sources of advice.