Author: Chris Ring

  • 03
    Jun

    OKO Seals the Deal across the Middle East!

    The widely-read and respected ME Construction News publication has published this article about OKO, which has proven its worth in some of the World’s hottest conditions. We have long-established distributors in UAE, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Israel: and we are keen to meet established construction sector distributors in...

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  • 01
    Jan

    How to avoid compaction of your farming land

    At OKO Tyre Sealants, we are often asked – “can I use your Off Road sealant in flotation tyres?” The simple answer is yes – and not just to protect you from punctures. Here’s why… Farmers are very much aware that over-compaction of their land by tyres or tracks...

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  • 19
    Dec

    Why On Earth (or in the air) do you need Nitrogen in commercial tyres?

    Typical Mining Vehicle – with OKO: and N2?   You may have been encouraged by your tyre bay to invest in having them replace the natural air in the tyres of your heavy-duty OTR or On Road vehicle fleet with more or less pure nitrogen (N2). Why? Well, the...

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  • 13
    Aug

    Interesting Times – the best time to plan ahead…

    Many readers will have heard the apocryphal (some say Chinese) curse – ‘May you live in interesting times’.   Well, we certainly are going through an unprecedented time of worldwide upheaval and woe. Many businesses are forced to cut back, and others are watching and waiting. But marketing theory...

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  • 24
    Mar

    Conexpo 2020 – The Last Great Picture Show?

    I am old enough to remember the movie ‘The Last Picture Show’, Peter Bogdanovitch’s great black-and-white elegy for a disappearing way of life in a Mid-West American town.   This was brought to mind as OKO Tyre (Tire) Sealants made its first appearance at the huge triennial Conexpo construction...

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  • 18
    Jul

    Does OKO Look Different to You?

        If you feel you haven’t heard much from OKO recently, it’s because in addition to fulfilling our ever-increasing worldwide order book, we’ve been occupied with redesigning all of our products.   The job is now more or less complete, and as stocks of the previous designs run...

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  • 01
    Dec

    The History – and Future – of Tubeless Bicycle Tyre Sealants

    In the beginning – well quite a lot of years ago – there was Stan’s No-Tubes system; and if you wanted to go tubeless in those days you needed a simple latex sealant – to be lightweight (which after all is one of the key motivators for tubeless), to...

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  • 15
    Jul

    OKO and its LifeLong commitment to wheels and tyres

    Every 2 years, the construction industry from UK (and all over the globe) gathers to see mammoth machines being put through their paces in the immense Hillhead quarry in the beautiful Peak District of Derbyshire, England. And this year, it was hot, hot, hot… And in June 2018, every...

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  • 16
    Apr

    Pump Up the Volume – it’s the new release from OKO…

      It may seem a bit ‘geeky’ for us to get excited about a pump, but this is no ordinary tyre sealant offering – it’s the all-new OKO Drum Pump. Our previous model has served us well for many years, but we decided it was time to make a...

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  • 08
    Oct

    OKO Embraces Facebook – on its bike…

    We are not exactly the first manufacturing company to embrace social media – but having seen many others’ efforts (on Facebook in particular) we are reminded of the party to which nobody came. Typically, companies take on an office junior to ‘do social’, and a Facebook page emerges –...

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