Who makes which tyre?

[bat1959]

Found this on my computer. I cant remember where I downloaded it from.

Who makes which tyre?
For many years the "premium" tyre companies looked at the so called "budget" manufacturers with disdain, eventually they realised that they were actually losing massive amounts of money to the man in the street who was not "tyre brandist" in other words millions of people realised that there is no need to spend ridiculous amount of money on high priced big name brands.
Do you really need to buy high priced race quality tyres for a family runabout that is only used to collect the shopping and the school run?
The Big boys now make the budget ranges! They realised that the only way to compete at the "lower end" of the market is to make budget ranges; they are usually made in the same factory as the High priced tyres! They use different names simply because if they put "premium brand" names on them then no-one will pay the high prices for the others!
Every premium company makes-or has made for them-budget ranges, have a look at this list of brands.
AURORA Made by Hankook in Germany
AVON American company
BARUM Tyres are made in Czechoslovakia wholly Continental
BF GOODRICH American company
BRIDGESTONE / FIRESTONE Are the same company
CAMAC Tyres are made in Portugal, specialist caravan and trailer tyres
CHENG SIN Chinese company that makes tyres under licence for many major brands
CONTINENTAL German company. Tyres are made throughout Asia and Czechoslovakia
DUNLOP Originally Irish company now worldwide
ENDURO Made by GITI TYRE Netherlands co owned jointly by Michelin and Federal
EVENT Tyres are made in the Netherlands by Event Tyres part owned by Continental.
FALKEN Jointly owned by Michelin and BF Goodrich
FEDERAL Taiwan/China owned by Bridgestone
FULLRUN Made by BEIJING TYRE COMPANY (China) makes tyres for many major brands
GOODYEAR UK manufacturer owned by Dunlop group
HANKOOK Made in Korea and America
KLEBER French company produces 180 different brands
KUHMO Korean. Original equipment on VW and Ford for 2008
MARSHALL Made by Kuhmo
MATADOR Tyres are made in Czechoslovakia 51% owned by Continental
MAXXIS Originally Dutch company, now worldwide manufacturer
NEXEN Tyres are made in Korea by Michelin
NOKIAN Are made by NOKIA (the mobile phone company!) in Netherlands
PIRELLI Italian company in partnership with Dunlop
ROADSTONE Made in Korea by Michelin
TOYO Japan specialist performance and track manufacturer
VREDESTIEN Netherlands, small company.
YOKOHAMA America and China mainly sporty tyres
WANLI 2ND Second largest company in China suppliers to :Volkswagen/Audi/Mazda/Isuzu, Renault and Nissan

Good to know?

 

[Boogle]

Interesting, but while technically true that many budget tyres are made by the big boys - they're still budget tyres. They'll have a different compound and tread pattern to ensure the budget tyres never beat the premium tyres in real tests.

Also, Yokohama are a Japanese company based in Tokyo: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yokohama_Rubber_Company

From what I've read from tyre tests and people's experiences budget tyres are good enough for the majority of users (obv. not Z4 owners :wink - but the Chinese tyres are often awful.

 

[powerontap]

That report is full of mistakes... :thumbsdown:

 

[WLH]

Additional Information...

General Tire and Rubber Company owned by Continental
They make an economy brand of tire for the US market and IMO they make some excellent tires for the price.
Their AltiMAX Arctic winter tires which is a Studdable Winter/Snow tire is top rated by Tire Rack.

 

[gannet]

That report is full of mistakes... :thumbsdown:

care to elaborate ?

 

[AlanJ]

That report is full of mistakes... :thumbsdown:

care to elaborate ?

x2....

 

[DMike]

NOKIAN Are made by NOKIA (the mobile phone company!) in Netherlands

According to Wikipedia, Nokian Tyres, manufacturer of tires, split from Nokia Corporation to form its own company in 1988. Nokian Tyres produces 23,000 tyres per day at a factory in Nokia, Finland, and 200,000 tyres a year under the Bridgestone brand name.

DMike

 

[sars]

That report is full of mistakes... :thumbsdown:

care to elaborate ?

x2....

You can't just criticise someone's post without adding to it why, come on powerontap you've been a member long enough to know that bit of forum etiquette :thumbsdown:

 

[powerontap]

Fair enough, so let me elaborate.

DUNLOP Originally Irish company now worldwide ---- John Boyd Dunlop (or perhaps that was McDunlop :wink: ), who invented the pneumatic tire, is the man behind the name of the original British Company, not Irish. Today, they are owned by Goodyear and Sumitomo in a joint venture (75% - 25%). Asia is the only Continent where this alliance ratio is reversed in favor of Sumitomo.

GOODYEAR UK manufacturer owned by Dunlop group ---- Goodyear UK is a division of The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company, an American public company who owns part of Dunlop, not the other way around.

KLEBER French company produces 180 different brands ---- Kleber is simply an associate Brand of the MUG group (Michelin, Uniroyal, BF Goodrich) Michelin does have some of their private brands made in the Kleber plants (as they do elsewhere), but nowhere near that number (180) anymore.

NEXEN Tyres are made in Korea by Michelin ---- Nexen is a small South Korean manufacturer without ties to Michelin. It does however have an alliance with the OHTSU Tire & Rubber of Japan.

NOKIAN Are made by NOKIA (the mobile phone company!) in Netherlands ---- Nokia sold it's shares years ago, now BFS Europe (Bridgestone) is the majority share holder.

PIRELLI Italian company in partnership with Dunlop ---- Absolutely no alliance between these two companies.

YOKOHAMA America and China mainly sporty tyres ---- 100% Japanese company that manufacture a FULL line of tires, including consumer, light truck, commercial truck and OTR.

 

[powerontap]

So...that was an example of very poor journalism that he came accross.