Bridgestone adds curing bladder facility in China
Huizhou, China – Bridgestone is adding 5,300 unit per year curing bladder facility with €494,000 (3.6 million yuan) investment at its plant in Huizhou, Guangdong, according to local reports.
With 1.7 million unit per year truck and bus tire capacity and 45 tonne per year external purchase of curing bladders, the plant decided to build the facility as “external purchases are time consuming, effort requiring and costly,” said the project’s environmental filing.
The plant, with a maximum storage of 3.75 tonne bladders or 447 units, will be able to stop external purchases when the facility is in operation, said the filing.
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