Top 08 Tyres Company In The World.- Mechdor

  What is a tyre? 

Firstly, know the difference between Tire and Tyre. A Tire (American English) or Tyre (British English, see spelling difference).  So, a Tyre is a ring-shaped component that surrounds a wheel's rim to transfer a vehicle's load from the axle through the wheel to the ground and to provide traction on the surface over which the wheel travels.  Most tyres, such as those on automobiles and bicycles, are pneumatically inflated cushion that absorbs shocks as the tyre rolls over rough features in the surface. Tyres provide a footprint called a contact patch, which is designed to match the weight of the vehicle with the bearing strength of the surface that it rolls over by providing a bearing pressure that will no deform the surface excessively. 

Let's start the topic. 

Top 08 Tyre Companies:-

• Bridges-tone

• Michelin

• Goodyear

• Pirelli

•  Apolo Tyres 

• MRF

• Continental Tyre

• Dunlop

Bridgestone-

Bridgestone Corporation is a Japanese multinational auto and truck parts manufacturer

  established in  1, Ja n,1931, by Shojiro Ishibashi in the city of Kurume, Fukuoka, Japan. The name Bridgestone comes from a Calque translation and transposition of ishibashi, meaning "stone bridge" in Japanese. Bridgestone businesspresence more than 150 countries. The Bridgestone has 143,589 employees all over the world. The financial data of Bridgestone includes Net sales of 3,525.6 billion yen in Billions ($33.82 in Billions) and the operating income is 326 billion yen in Billions ($3.07 in Billions). 

Sales by markets:-

• In Japan- 19%
• In America- 47%
• In EMEA- 19%
• In China and Asia, 15%

As of 2017, the company is the largest manufacturer of tyres in the world, followed by Michelin (France), Goodyear (United States), Continental (Germany) and Pirelli (Italy).

Bridgestone Group had production facilities in 24 countries as of July 2018.

Mechelin-

Michelin is a French multinational tyre manufacturer based in Clermont-Ferrand in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region of France. Mechelin was founded on 28/May/1889. It is the second largest tyre manufacturer in the world after  Bridgestone and larger than both Goodyear and Continental. In addition to the Mechelin brand, it also owns the Kleber Tyres Company, Uniroyal-Goodrich Tyre Company, SASCAR, Bookatable, and Camso brands. Michelin is also notable for its Red and Green travel guides, its roadmaps, the Michelin stars that the Red Guide awards to restaurants for their cooking, and for its company mascot Bibendum, colloquially known as the Michelin Man. Mechelin had 112,800 employees in 2017. 

Goodyear-

The Goodyear Tyre & Rubber Company is an American multinational tyre manufacturing company founded on August 29, 1898, by Frank Seiberling in Akron, Ohio. Goodyear manufactures tyres for automobiles, commercial trucks, Light trucks,  motorcycles, SUVs, race cars, aeroplanes, farm equipment and heavy earth mover machinery. It also produced bicycle tyres from its founding until 1976. As of 2017, Goodyear is one of the top three tyre manufacturers along with Bridgestone (Japan), Michelin (France) and Continental (Germany).

The company was named after American Charles Goodyear, Inventor of Vulcanized rubber. The first Goodyear tyres became popular because they were easily detachable and required little maintenance.

Goodyear is also known for the Goodyear Blimp. Although Goodyear had been manufacturing airships and balloons since the early 1900s, the first Goodyear advertising blimp flew in 1925. Today, it is one of the most recognisable advertising icons in America. The company is the most successful tyre supplier in Formula One history, with more starts, wins, and constructors' championships than any other tyre supplier. They pulled out of the sport after the 1998 season. It is the sole tyre supplier for the NASCAR series.

 Pirelli-

Pirelli is an Italian multinational company based in Milan, Italy, listed on the Milan Stock Exchange since 192,2 with a temporary privatisation period by the consortium led by the Chinese state-owned enterprise Chemchina. The Pirelli was founded in 1872. The company is the top Largest tyre manufacturer behind Bridgestone, Michelin, Goodyear, Continental, Sumitomo and Hankook and is focused on the consumer business. It is present in Europe, the Asia-Pacific, Latin America, North America and ex-USSR, operating commercially in over 160 countries. It has 19 manufacturing sites in 13 countries and a network of around 14,600 Distributors and retailers.

Pirelli has been sponsoring sports competitions since 1907 and is the exclusive tyre partner for the Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series from 2008 to 2010. FIA Formula One World Championship for 2011-2023 and for the FIM World Superbike Championship. Pirelli headquarters are located in Milan's Bicocca district. In the past, it has been involved in Fashion and Operated in renewable energy and sustainable mobility.

Apollo  Tyres-

Apollo Tyres Ltd is the world's largest tyre manufacturer, with annual consolidated revenues of US$2.46 billion in March 2018. It was incorporated in 1972. Its first plant was commissioned in Perambra Thissur, Kerala, India. The company now has four manufacturing units in India, one in the Netherlands and one in Hungary. It has a network of nearly 5,000 dealerships in India, of which over 2,500 are exclusive outlets. The number of employees at this organisation is 16,000. It gets 69% of its revenues from India, 26% from Europe and 5%from other geographies.

Apollo announced its entry into the two-wheeler tyre segment with contract manufacturing in March 2016. In November 2016, the company signed an MoU with the government of Andhra Pradesh to set up a new factory in Andhra Pradesh to manufacture tyres for two-wheelers and pick-up trucks.

 

The company's second plant in Europe was inaugurated by the Hungarian Prime Minister, Viktor Orban, in April 2017. Apollo Tyres opens its first service centre in Malaysia. 

MRF-

MRF Limited is an Indian multinational and the largest manufacturer of tyres in India. The MRF was founded in 1946, Tiruvottiyur, Madras, Tamil Nadu, India. The founder of MRF is K M Mammen Mappillai. It's headquartered in Chennai, India. The company manufactures rubber products including tyres, treads, tubes, conveyor belts, plant and toys. MRF also runs the MRF Pace Foundation in Chennai and the MRF Challenge in motorsport.

Continental  Tyres-

Continental AG, commonly known as Continental, is a German Multinational automotive parts manufacturing company specialising in brake systems, interior electronics, automotive safety, powertrains, and other parts for the automotive and transportation industries. Continental is based in Hanover, Lower Saxony, Germany. Continental is the world's fourth-largest tyre 

manufacturing.

Continental was founded in 1871 as a rubber manufacturer. Continental Caoutchouc and Gutta-Percha Compagine. In 1898, Continental started development and production of the vehicle tyre with a plan tread, which was a major success for the brand. In 1904, Continental became the first company in the world to manufacture grooved vehicle tyres. Another major product Continental invented was detachable wheel tyres that were made for touring vehicles. In the late 1920s, Continental merged with several other major rubber industry companies to form the largest rubber company inGermanyn,y "Continental Gummi-Werke AG". As with many other German companies during World WWar II Continental used slave labour provided by the Nazi Party in their factory in the 1940s at Hannover-Stocken, Hannover-Limmer, Hannover-Ahlem, and others, all offshoots of the Neuengamme concentration camp. 

Dunlop Tyres-

Dunlop Tyres is a brand of tyres owned by Various companies around the world. Founded by Pneumatic tyre pioneer John Boyd Dunlop in Dublin, Ireland in 1890, it is owned and operated by Goodyear Tyre and Rubber Company in North America, Europe, Australia and New Zealand. In India, the brand is owned by Dunlop India Ltd., whose parent company is the Ruia Group. In several Other Asian countries (Japan, China, Indonesia, Thailand and Russia), Africa and Latin America ( except Mexico),, it is operated by SumitomoRubber Industriess. In Malaysia, the Dunlop Tyres brand has, since 2012, been wholly owned by Continental AG, which manufactures Dunlop-branded tyres for sale in Malaysia, Singapore and Brunei.

In 1985, Dunlop Rubber Company was acquired by BTR PLC, and Sumitomo acquired the rights to manufacture and market Dunlop-branded road tyres. Sumitomo did not acquire any of the Dunlop companies. In 1997. Sumitomo gained agreement to use the Dunlop name in its corporate name and changed the name of its UK subsidiary to Dunlop Tyres Ltd.

In 1999, Sumitomo and Goodyear began a joint venture by which Sumitomo continued to manufacture aall Japanese-madetyres under the Dunlop name, while Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company nought 75% of the European and North American tyre businesses of Sumitomo. 

The company has extensive manufacturing operations throughout the world. With the closure of the Washington Plant in 2006, Goodyear Dunlop ceased mainstream car and lorry tyre production in the UK.