Bridgestone inaugurates its second plant in India
Bridgestone inaugurated its second Indian plant at Chakan, Pune. They will manufacture both passenger car as well as truck and bus tyres at the plant. The plant will bring an estimated Rs 2600 crore to the state by 2015 and employ 1800 people. It will have the capacity to produce 10,000 passenger radial tyres and 3,000 truck/bus tyres every day. The plant is expected to reach its maximum capacity by 2015 and will supplement the production numbers from their other facility in Kheda, Madhya Pradesh.
While Bridgestone holds a healthy position in the passenger car market they are absent from the two wheeler market. When we asked Hiromi Tanigawa MD, Bridgestone India Private Limited about this he confirmed that currently they have no plans to enter the two wheeler market yet but it could be a possibility in the future.
Talking to the media, Kazuhisa Nishigai, COO Bridgestone Corporation, said that "India is growing rapidly and it will surely continue further in the future and has an unlimited potential. The success in India is essential and inevitable for Bridgestone to be the undisputed No. 1 Tyre and Rubber Company in the world both in name and reality."
