ZC Rubber starts up phase three at Thailand site

Rayong, Thailand – The third phase of ZC Rubber's production facility in Rayong rolled out its first passenger car tires on 31 Oct.

ZC started construction work on phase three in December 2019.

The project, spanning 173,000 sqm total floor area, marks the final phase of the company’s €654 million (25 billion Thai Baht) overall investment in Rayong.

This will bring ZC Rubber’s total annual tire production capacity in Thailand to more than 20 million unit, said the company.

The Thai site is scheduled to be completed by the end of the year after phase three’s commissioning and optimisation, the company told ERJ.

The full commissioning, ZC told ERJ, may be delayed by the pandemic, as some of the engineers have not been able to enter Thailand and had to work remotely from China.

"The start-up has already been delayed by two weeks," said ZC Rubber.

The company started production at its Thai site in June 2015 and manufactures passenger car tires, truck and bus tires, bias industrial tires, motorcycle tires and engineering truck tires at the facility.