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February 11, 2008 01:00 AM

Double Coin adding Chinese truck tire factory

Namrita Chow
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    SHANGHAI, China — Double Coin Holdings Ltd.´s newest tire plant-a $165 million radial truck tire factory under construction in Chongqing-will boost the firm´s annual capacity for truck tires 45 percent to 7 million units when it comes on stream in the fourth quarter.

    Double Coin Holdings-formerly Shanghai Tire & Rubber Co. Ltd.-selected Shuangqiao, Chongqing, for the plant because it´s designed to serve customers in southwest China, according to a spokesman for the company. Double Coin´s existing facilities are all in the eastern region.

    Chongqing is a hub for automotive factories and home to automotive conglomerate ChangAn Automobile Co. Ltd., which has joint ventures with Mazda Motor Corp., Suzuki Motor Co. Ltd. and Ford Motor Co., and builds its Ford Mondeo and Fiesta and Mazda3 cars.

    Asked if the company has plans to produce passenger tires at the plant, the spokesman replied: "It depends on the market." He declined to state if there are definite plans to enter the passenger car tire segment.

    Double Coin owns 30 percent of a venture with Michelin-Shanghai Michelin Warrior Tire Co. Ltd.-that produces passenger car tires at a plant in Shanghai.

    The facility´s first phase represents new radial truck tire capacity of 2.5 million tires, Double Coin said. The company has secured 165 acres in Shuangqiao for the first phase and has another 82 acres under contract for a potential second phase.

    The plant is the second in a series of expansions, following the opening two years ago of a factory in Rugao, Jiangsu. Capacity at the Rugao plant is 1.5 million radial truck tires, including some off-the-road tires.

    "Capacity at the Rugao plant is increasing every year," the spokesman said.

    Double Coin´s original plant in Shanghai made 2.8 million truck tires in 2007. That facility also makes OTR tires.

    Exports account for about 30 percent of total production with the remaining 70 percent sold in China´s growing domestic market.

    North America is Double Coin´s largest export market, followed by Europe. About 90 percent of exports are for the aftermarket, according to Dean Jin, the company´s logistics manager.

    Double Coin sources most of its natural rubber from Thailand, Indonesia and Malaysia with some also sourced domestically from Hainan Island. Steel cord also is imported. Other materials such as carbon black and nylon cord are sourced locally.

    Double Coin is developing a tire described by the spokesman as "a giant tire. (It´s a) very big tire for industrial and mining machines."

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