Following the first intelligent tire manufacturing plant established by Qingdao Sentury Tire Ltd., 2016 witnessed a great number of intelligent tire manufacturing plants to put into operation. In February, the intelligent high-end passenger car tire production base of Triangle Tire Huayang Branch with a total investment of RMB 6.7 Billion Yuan was put into operation, which plans to establish high-performance passenger car tires, commercial car tires and special tires as well as to be a high standard auto tire testing ground, and the annual output is 4 million high-performance passenger car tires in the first phase of the project; in November, the all-field intelligent, all-process automatic and all-dimensional green ire manufacturing plant of Hefei Wanli Tire Co., Ltd. was put into operation, which had realized the production capacity of 1 million all-steel radial tires by the end of the year and will produce 2 million all-steel radial tires annually by the middle of 2017; in June and December, the global first all-steel tire and semi-steel tire all-process industry 4.0 intelligent factories of Doublestar Tire were completed and put into production and pilot operation separately. Doublestar was the only demonstration and pilot enterprise for “Intelligent Manufacturing of Green Tires” identified by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology in 2016, forming the operation capacity of 4 million units of all-steel tires and 6 million units of semi-steel tires annually. Furthermore, there are a batch of tire enterprises which are planning or will plan to carry out intelligent transformation.
Top 10 News on China Rubber Industry 2016 - No. 07: Intelligent Manufacturing Tire Plants Established
Date:2017/02/24 Author: - From: China Rubber Journal