Linglong to build new site and mulls another two

Yantai, China – Linglong Tyre announced in February its plan to build a fourth China site with nearly 14.5 million unit total annual capacity.

Such annual capacity includes 12 million passenger car tires, 2.4 million truck and bus tires and 60,000 engineering tires. The plant also has 1.5 million-unit annual capacity for inner tubes and flaps and 3,000 tonne annual capacity for plastics pads.

“The company’s production and sales volume…is expected to grow at a 20% yearly rate in the future,” said Linglong’s announcement. “Our radial tire…