Swedish Trelleborg Group has set up a new facility in Xingtai, Hebei, China, to manufacture radial and bias technology tyres for farming, forestry and agro-industrial applications while Taiwan-based tyre makerKenda Rubber intends to invest US$333 million to set up a plant in Guangdong.
Trelleborg has several manufacturing facilities in China, in Huizhou, Shanghai, Wuxi, Qingdao and Xingtai that manufacture marine systems, speciality components, industrial anti-vibration, agricultural tyres, printing solutions and precision seals. The firm has 1,500 employees in China and sales in 2011 amounted to nearly SEK1,100 million.
Meanwhile, Kenda is acquiring 2.8 million sq m of land in Huizhou and intends to relocate its existing Shenzhen factory there. The plant will produce motorcycle and bicycle tyres and daily output is expected to reach 83,000 tyres by 2016.
Kenda is also building another plant in Tianjin for passenger car radials by Q2 2013. The tyre maker is also looking to set up yet another passenger car radial factory, in either the US or China’s Sichuang or Wuhan Provinces.
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