Linglong Tire working with Tencent Cloud, Huazhi Group on digital platform & manufacturing system

On 21 December, Linglong Tire signed a tripartite strategic agreement with Tencent Cloud and Shenzhen Huazhi Technology Group. The tyre maker hopes that this deal, signed by the three parties at Tencent’s global headquarters, will help it build a “global industrial service platform and intelligent retail platform.”

In recent years, Linglong Tire has been pushing tire industry intelligence. 

 As a Top 20 global tire manufacturer with headquarters in Zhaoyuan City in the Shandong Province of China, Linglong Tire is among the Top 3 tire manufacturers based in China with global sales of over $1.5 billion in 2016. Linglong employs over 12,000 people worldwide. 

The company’s "3 + 3" manufacturing strategy includes three production facilities in China and plans for three more plants in other countries. Linglong currently has production facilities in Zhaoyuan City, Dezhou and Liuzhou, China. In 2013, Linglong opened its first international tire production facility in Thailand for high performance radial passenger, light truck and truck-bus tire production. This gave the company annual production capacity of 51 million units. There are plans for future tire production facilities in Europe and the Americas. Linglong is striving to become a Top 10 global tire manufacturer in sales and achieve an annual capacity of 90 million units by 2020.