Yokohama India, a wholly-owned subsidiary of The Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd. is to double capacity at one of its plants located in Bahadurgarh, Haryana, to 1.6 million tyres per year; the initial capacity was 0.7 million tyres manufactured per year.…
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