COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (Sept. 17, 2010)—Trelleborg A.B. has opened the enlarged production unit outside Colombo, Sri Lanka, where it makes solid industrial and pneumatic tires primarily for industrial applications.
Trelleborg's production of solid industrial tires now has been consolidated in Sri Lanka, and the unit. The company said it expanded and streamlined the facility using entirely new technology for this type of tire.
The plant employs about 800.