Kaplan Praises Sava Performance In Interview

In an interview with a Slovenian newspaper Jarro Kaplan, president of Goodyear’s Eastern Europe, Africa and Middle East region, paid tribute to the part played by Sava Tire in Goodyear’s global business activities. Since Goodyear took an 80 per cent stake in Sava in 1998, the Slovenian company has grown in international importance, exporting more than 90 per cent of its production to 70 countries, with plans to enter the US market soon. Kaplan described the Sava workforce as “well educated, highly productive and internationally oriented.

” A five-year investment program in Sava was completed a year ahead of schedule and, says Kaplan, Goodyear is seriously considering further production expansion. In addition to the Sava brand, the factory produces Goodyear, Dunlop, Fulda and Debica brand tyres and is Goodyear’s only European factory to produce 17.5 inch truck tyres.