Introduction
Korea Kumho Tire Kumho Tire Co., Ltd. products. Korea Kumho Tire Co., Ltd. has 35 years of manufacturing history of the tire, in 1996 total sales of 12 billion yuan, ranking tenth in the world in tire production enterprise. 1992 The company development and production of advanced 35 series ZR rated tires, its design, development, manufacturing and services are ISO international quality certification and 14001 environmental quality certification, and in 2011 3.15 operations, the company CCTV was exposed tire adulteration of raw materials, therefore, invited Tianjin Kumho food safety related to plant production line inspection, adding that CCTV determination less accurate.
Kumho Tire is one of the Group of Eight South Korean Kumho Asiana Group in China invest in the construction of large-scale professional tire manufacturer, after 10 years of development, Kumho Tire has grown into China’s largest tire manufacturing companies, to promote the vigorous development of China’s tire industry has made tremendous contributions.
Kumho Tire has a complete production line, covering multiple categories passenger car tires, commercial vehicle tires, SUV tires, truck tires. The face of intensified competition in the Chinese tire market, Kumho continue to high-quality products to seize the market, and now, Kumho has been successful formation and Chongqing Ford, FAW-Volkswagen, Shanghai GM, Beijing Hyundai, Dongfeng Shenlong other well-known automobile manufacturers stable relations of cooperation, and supporting a variety of their main selling models. Currently, Kumho Support models in China has reached thirty balance, currently supporting the number of cars has exceeded millions! Kumho is also focused on product development over the years to the development of tire products for Chinese road conditions. The company invested 36 million US dollars to build R & D center in Tianjin, and equipped with advanced equipment in the world.
Kumho Tire has built a multi-plant system, the four major domestic factories (Nanjing / Nanjing TBR / Changchun / Tianjin), three major South Korean factory (Kwangju / Gucheng / Pyeongtaek), plus Vietnam factory Kumho tire will have an annual production capacity of 60 million, it is bound to become the main global tire manufacturers. The near future, in terms of production or R & D strength to see, Kumho will become the industry leader.
Kumho in China
2Kumho 006 in May in Shanghai, China set up a Sales Co., Ltd., Kumho has overall responsibility for product sales in China four factories, the implementation of separation of production and marketing. At present, China set up in east, south, north, northeast, west five marketing department, under the jurisdiction of Nanjing, Beijing, Guangzhou, Shanghai, Chengdu, Changchun, Shenyang, Qingdao, Wuhan, Zhengzhou, Xi’an, Hangzhou, Kunming, Fuzhou, Shijiazhuang and Harbin 16 offices, have established a more than 250 dealers, more than 5,000 distributors huge sales network.
1, the Nanjing plant
was founded in 1995, with a total investment of $ 119,177,000, after ten years of development, has become the most productive tire manufacturer. In April 2005, a total investment of 84 million US dollars in the second phase of Nanjing Kumho Tire put into production, annual production capacity of 13 million units, China’s largest passenger car radial tire production base. Tech Industrial Development Zone in Nanjing, Nanjing broke ground TBR factory covers an area of about 90,000 square meters, the first phase of a total investment of $ 99.7 million, an annual all-steel radial tires 300,000, products are mainly used for large passenger cars and trucks and supporting the replacement market. Production will be expanded according to market conditions. It is expected to be completed in 2008, with the most advanced equipment to produce high-quality truck and bus radial tires. Raiders plan to focus on the Chinese domestic market and the new car market.
2, the Tianjin factory
a total investment amounting to 210 million US dollars, covers an area of 310,000 square meters, construction began in April 2005, was completed in July next year , specializes in the production of radial tires. After full production, annual output will reach 700 million sets of radial tires. Tianjin plant will use advanced technology, equipment, dust pollution measures to ensure that all pollution emissions to meet environmental standards and Tianjin, China, to become the tire industry in the “green business.”
3, Changchun plant
Kumho Tire (Changchun) Co., Ltd. is a third plant engineering Korea Kumho Asiana Group set up in China, and is located in Changchun High-tech Industrial Technology Development Zone, covers an area of 220,000 square meters, with a total investment of $ 150 million. To achieve an annual output of 3.15 million radial tire after an operation, it has become the Northeast’s largest tire manufacturer. The major products for the FAW supporting OE, and coveredCover the three northeastern provinces, Hebei, Shandong and other places the retail market.
Kumho tire quality problems
2011 CCTV “3.15” party on Kumho tire existence was revealed in the tire manufacturing process to add a large number of illegal back mixing, a news broadcast, sparked widespread concern in the community. In late March, Kumho Tire issued an apology, and they are being recalled by the production of tires.
“tire bulge phenomenon.”
when things seem to come to an end, Kumho Tire has publicly stated that this is Kumho Tire recall and replacement tires there is no quality problems Kumho tire conducted a recall in the product quality is not the problem, he also called on the tire industry, the introduction of a unified industry standard as soon as possible. Even after Kumho Tire also came the “innocence” sound.