In the first half of this year, affected by the epidemic, the entire tire market was relatively sluggish.

The tire production capacity is already surplus, coupled with the hindered export, the Chinese tire industry is facing huge challenges.

But there are still many tire companies that are expanding their investment scale.

Tireworld has counted the ten major projects invested and constructed by Chinese tire companies in the past six months.

Linglong launches 14.2 million tires project

On April 15, Jilin Linglong's 14.2 million tire intelligent production project was launched in Changchun.

This is Linglong Tire's fifth production base in China and the seventh production base in the world.

According to reports, the Jilin Linglong tire project is located in the Changchun Automobile Economic and Technological Development Zone, with a total investment of 4.893 billion yuan.

After all construction is completed, it can produce 12 million semi-steel radial tires, 2 million all-steel radial tires and 200,000 retreaded tires annually.

It is estimated that the annual sales revenue will be 4.44 billion yuan.

Sailun Shenyang 3 million tires project started

On March 1, Sailun Shenyang’s annual production of 3 million sets of all-steel radial truck tires officially started construction.

The total investment of the project is more than 2 billion yuan, and the construction period is expected to be one year.

After the project is put into production, it will form an annual production capacity of 5 million sets of all-steel radial truck tires.

This project, by focusing on the optimization and upgrading of intelligent manufacturing and the application of big data, can improve the automation, digitization and intelligence level of core equipment in the tire manufacturing process.

This is a new model of smart manufacturing and digital transformation for tire companies.

Zhongce Rubber invests 3.56 billion yuan to expand factory

On March 3, the reconstruction and expansion of the Spring and Autumn Plant and storage facilities of China Strategic Rubber (Jiande) Co., Ltd. started construction.

The project has a total investment of 3.56 billion yuan and a construction period of 2 years.

The total land area is 820 mu and the construction area is 660,000 square meters.

After the completion of the project, it will have an annual production capacity of 6.7 million sets of high-performance all-steel radial tires and tubeless radial truck tires.

Camry (Shandong) Rubber invests 3.7 billion yuan to build a new plant

Around February this year, Camry (Shandong) Rubber Co., Ltd. invested 3.742 billion yuan to build a tire project.

The construction period of the project is from 2020 to 2021, and it can produce 5 million high-performance green and environmentally friendly smart radial tires per year.

This tire project is listed as a key construction project of Dongying City in 2020.

This is the rare new tire factory in the area in recent years.

Hongsheng Rubber invested 165 million yuan in technological transformation

An intelligent transformation and upgrading project for semi-steel radial tire production equipment started in Dongying, Shandong in March.

This project was constructed by Shandong Hongsheng Rubber Technology Co., Ltd.

The total investment of the project is 165 million yuan, and the planned investment in 2020 is 50 million yuan.

At the same time, the company's MES, ERP information integration project, with a total investment of 15 million yuan, plans to invest 5 million yuan in 2020.

Yuexin Rubber accelerates its 7 million tire project

A tire project of Hubei Yuexin Rubber Co., Ltd. is accelerating.

The project is an annual output of 7 million high-performance radial tires.

The total area of the project is 85 acres and the investment is 300 million yuan. This year, it plans to invest 150 million yuan.

Among them, 43 mu of land for the first phase of construction is expected to be completed and put into operation by the end of the year.

This project mainly uses outsourcing rubber (mixed rubber) for tire production.

Xingyuan Tire invested 310 million yuan in technological transformation

Around March, Xingyuan Tire Group Co., Ltd. started the construction of the all-steel radial truck technical equipment transformation project.

The total investment of the project is 310 million yuan, and the planned investment in 2020 is 45.98 million yuan.

This project is listed as a key project in 2020 by Shandong Guangrao.

Guizhou Tire Investment 50 million yuan project

On May 29th, Guizhou Tire Co., Ltd. started the construction of the second phase of intelligent manufacturing of all-steel small and medium-sized engineering tires.

This project invested 49.912 million yuan, newly installed a small four-drum molding machine, newly added 14 sets of 88" single-mode vulcanizing press and 1 X-ray machine.

After the project is completed, the annual output of all-steel small and medium-sized engineering tires (specifications 14.00R25) will reach 56,100.

The construction period of the project is approximately 6 months.

It is expected to be completed in December 2020 and put into operation in January 2021.

Jinyu Tire builds a factory in Vietnam

On June 18th, Shandong Jinyu Tire Group Co., Ltd.'s Vietnam factory started construction.

After the completion of the first phase of the project, an annual production capacity of 2 million all-steel radial tires can be formed.

According to reports, the factory adopts the leading design concept of the tire industry and can realize unmanned, automated and intelligent functions such as warehousing and logistics.

Sailun (Dongying) invested 350 million yuan in the project

In March, Sailun (Dongying) Tire Co., Ltd. started the construction of the intelligent manufacturing project of high-performance semi-steel radial tires with artificial intelligence technology.

The total investment of the project is 350 million yuan, and it is planned to invest 100 million yuan in 2020.

Article source: Tire World