Bridgestone Asia Pacific Pte Ltd announced that Bridgestone Asia Pacific Technical Center Co Ltd (APTC), a wholly-owned subsidiary, held a ceremony to celebrate its relocation to its new laboratory building in Pathum Thani Province, Thailand. With this new facility, APTC will be able to strengthen its functions and better develop products suited to the region’s customers’ needs and requirements, it says.
APTC started operations in 2013 in Northern Bangkok. This regional technical centre was established with the aim of improving product value for the Asia Pacific region’s customers by providing technical support and carrying out research and development in the region, through information obtained from local markets.
This can come in the form of improved tyre design or compound, to better adapt an existing product to the local customer requirement, which it is used to improve a product’s safety, performance and durability through tyre and material testing. This is achieved through APTC’s functions of Quality Management, Tyre Development, Material Development and Procurement, and Production Technology.
APTC has relocated to the new and larger laboratory facility at end March 2015,for the installation of new machinery.
Meanwhile, the Bridgestone Group plans to increase its presence in the Asia Pacific region through enhancing research and development, expanding its sales network, and increasing tyre production capacity, as it strives to achieve its mission of “Serving Society with Superior Quality”.