First tire rolls off production line at Wanli’s Cambodia plant

Svay Rieng province, Cambodia – Chinese tire manufacturer Wanli Tire has manufactured the first passenger tire at its greenfield tire plant at the New Bavet Special Economic Zone in Svay Rieng province.

Commercial production at the Cambodian base is scheduled for early next year, said the Chinese tire maker 27 Oct.

Wanli broke ground on the project in January to build its first wholly owned overseas production based.

Once fully operational, the plant will have a total capacity to produce 10 million units of semi-steel passenger radial tires and 1.2 million full-steel truck and bus radial tires. (ERJ report)

As previously reported by ERJ, in the first phase, Wanli is investing $239 million (€234 million) in capacity to produce 6 million PCR units.