Chinese Tires on the Way to Mid- and High-end Market

At the end of Aug., the U.S. magazine Tire Business released the world’s leading 75 tire producers and 30 ones were from the Chinese mainland.

In the global tire market, a strong team is emerging.

On Sep. 19, when you walked into the factory of Triangle Tire, the world’s 15th largest tire producer, you will see a giant new tire weigh 5.6 tons.

It is so far China’s largest engineering radial tire. The independently developed tire represents a new height marked by China’s tire industry.

A technician with Triangle Tire said a single tire is capable of carrying 82.5 tons and such products are mainly for transportation of rigid dump truck weigh over 300 tons.

Outstand performance and technical criteria of the product are comparable to its high-end counterparts of international tire giants.

Since the first engineering radial tire produced in Nov. 2002, Triangle Tire set its R&D targets according to the world’s top standards.

Its “production technology and equipment development for giant engineering radial tires” project won the first prize of the national scientific and technical progress.

By adaptability and system integration innovations, the company has significantly improved the quality of engineering radial tires.

Triangle Tire is capable of producing engineering radial tire products of all categories and has provided complementary products to a number of internationally renowned engineering machinery manufacturers.

The company boasts a national technology R&D center, a national engineering lab, and a national industry designing center. Some of the national and industrial criteria were produced here.

The national high-tech company produces high-performance tires for commercial vehicles, passenger car tires, bias engineering tires, engineering radial tires, giant radial tires and specialty tires, forming a strong competitiveness in the world’s mid- and high-end market.

The supplier quality assessment of Catepillar is well known for its strictness. Triangle Tire’s products won the prizes of the assessment for years since 2010 and won the top prize, Platinum, for three times.

With outstanding quality, Triangle Tire established stable business relations with a large number of high-end customers home and abroad. Its market network covers more than 170 countries and regions across the world. It sets up branches in North America, Europe, Russia and India, and establishes an R&D center in North America.

Ding Yuhua, board chairman of Triangle Tire, said more than a half of the company’s products are for export and 35% are to the developed markets in North America, Europe, and Oceania.

Over the past few years, Triangle Tire develops stably in the international market and becomes a competitive competitor with high-tech products.

This year, Triangle Tire rolled out five high performance tire products targeting high-end international customers.

Looking at made-in-China from Triangle Tire, we can see that the gap between China’s first class brands and international first class brands is narrowing. China’s manufacturing industry is striding at the frontier of the world and taking a position among the high-end brands.

Ding said Triangle Tire will work together with other Chinese manufacturers, set high targets, and reach the same level as China’s high speed rail and nuclear technologies.

He also calls domestic consumers to be rational and give more supports and care to domestic brands, accomplishing and advancing the business value of tires made in China.