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Titan Tire Corporation [79] USA: 1993 Goodyear (farm tires), Titan, Continental (OTR only) [80] Tigar Tyres Serbia: 1959 Tigar: Tomket Tires [81] [non-primary source needed] Czech Republic: 1997 Tomket (Czech brand of low category is made in China) Toyo Tire & Rubber [82] Japan: 1945 Nitto, Silverstone, Toyo: Trayal Corporation Serbia: 1955 ...
Sava Tires is a Slovenian tyre and other rubber related products' manufacturer, it is now a subsidiary of the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company. It is located in Kranj, Slovenia. The company was formed in 1998 under the name Sava Tyres d.o.o., although tyre manufacturing had started in 1920. It employs over 1,400 people.
Dunlop Tyres is a brand of tyres which is managed by different companies around the world. It was founded by pneumatic tyre pioneer John Boyd Dunlop in Belfast, Ireland, in 1888. [5] The brand is operated by Goodyear [1] in North America (passenger car & light truck), Europe, Australia and New Zealand. [6]
The Kelly-Springfield Tire Company was an American manufacturer of tires for motor vehicles. It was founded in Springfield, Ohio by Edwin Kelly and Arthur Grant in 1894. It was acquired in 1935 by the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company, who maintained it as a subsidiary until 1999 when it was integrated into Goodyear North America. [1]
The U.S. Rubber Manufacturers Association (RMA), established in 1915 as the Rubber Club of America, is a national trade and advocacy group [1] of U.S. rubber tire manufacturers. The Rubber Manufacturers Association formed the Tire Industry Safety Council trade association in the United States in May 1969, [2] [3] which is based in Washington, D ...
EVA is one of the materials popularly known as expanded rubber or foam rubber. EVA foam [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] is used as padding in equipment for various sports such as ski boots , bicycle saddles, hockey pads, boxing and mixed-martial-arts gloves and helmets, wakeboard boots, waterski boots, fishing rods , and fishing-reel handles.
With over 1 billion tires manufactured worldwide annually, the tire industry is a major consumer of natural rubber. [1] Tire factories start with bulk raw materials such as synthetic rubber (60% -70% of total rubber in the tire industry [2] [3]), carbon black, and chemicals and produce numerous specialized components that are assembled and cured.
The Barum tyre company was created as a subsidiary of Bata Shoes who made rubber soled boots in Czechoslovakia.The high cost of rail transport prompted the Bata company to operate its own fleet of vehicles to transport goods by road and in 1934, to counteract the high costs involved in importing tyres for its fleet of vehicles, the company decided to produce tyres for its own use.