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Apollo Tyres India: 1972 Apollo, [2] Apollo Tyres South Africa, [a] Bearway, [3] Kaizen, Maloya, Regal, Vredestein: Birla Tyres India: 1991 Birla Tyre [4] Belshina Belarus: 1965 Belshina [5] Bridgestone Japan: 1931
Sumitomo Rubber South Africa manufactures the Dunlop, Sumitomo and Falken passenger car tyre brands in Ladysmith, KwaZulu-Natal. The Ladysmith plant began to produce Dunlop truck and bus radial tyres in July 2018, following the second of two large investments by Sumitomo Rubber Industries to upgrade and modernise the plant.
Dunlop is a brand of tyre originally produced by the Dunlop Pneumatic Tyre Company from the end of the 19th century, taking its name from John Boyd Dunlop. The brand is used for many other products made from rubber or with rubber components and some with a looser connection to rubber. Ownership of the brand has become fragmented over the years.
Low rolling resistance tires are designed to reduce the energy loss as a tire rolls, decreasing the required rolling effort — and in the case of automotive applications, improving vehicle fuel efficiency as approximately 5–15% of the fuel consumed by a typical gas car may be used to overcome rolling resistance.
The Goodyear Tyre & Rubber Co. - THE GOODYEAR TYRE & Rubber Co. Amiens, France: NC/1NC: Goodyear France S.A. - Consumer tires (Closed) [75] Montluçon, France: DK/1DK: Dunlop France S.A. - Motorcycle and scooter tires, passenger car tires Riom, France - Truck tire retreading Philippsburg, Germany: ND/1ND: Deutsche Goodyear GmbH - Warehouse ...
Bridgestone's first overseas plant since the end of the war was opened in Singapore in 1965, and production was also commenced in Thailand in 1969. The 1960s for Bridgestone was an era of overseas expansion that also included the establishment of Bridgestone Americas in the United States in 1967 to act as Bridgestone's USA representative sales ...
Continental AG, commonly known as Continental and colloquially as Conti, [3] is a German multinational automotive parts manufacturing company. Headquartered in Hanover, Lower Saxony, it is the world's third-largest automotive supplier and the fourth-largest tire manufacturer.
Tyres break down during use and turn into particulate matter (dust), which can be hazardous air pollution, also coating surrounding surfaces in dirty rubber dust. [ 7 ] Although it is a more complex technology, most rubber-tyred metro systems use quite simple techniques, in contrast to guided buses .