Kenda expanding to support North American sales push - Tire Business
into a permanent facility in Green, Ohio, later this year underscores the company’s taking a much higher profile in the North American passenger and light truck tire market. is expanding production capacity at plants in Vietnam and Taiwan for these tires, according to Jimmy Yang, chairman of American Kenda and vice chairman and president of Kenda Rubber, in a recent interview with Tire Business at the Latin American &... Kenda, based in Yuanlin Township, Taiwan, will increase capacity in stages at its Kenda Rubber (Vietnam) Co. Ltd. factory in Dong Nai, Vietnam, to 20,000 passenger and light truck and tires a day eventually. In addition, the company will double consumer tire capacity at its headquarters plant in Yun-Lin, Taiwan, to 10,000 units a day by year-end 2016. /apps/pbcsi. This ramp-up in capacity is why the company has a tech center in the Akron area, Mr. Yang said. “The tech center in North America is paving the way for the growth in both OE and replacement of Kenda tires in North America. “Now we are only in spare tires,” he said, notably providing temporary spares for some Honda and Mitsubishi models in the U. S. Kenda also has had some success with OE vehicle makers in China, including supplying ground,. Source: www.tirebusiness.com
