Pirelli Opens New Truck Tyre Plant in Brazil

(Akron/Tire Review) Pirelli SpA’s new $50 million truck tyre plant in Gravatai, Brazil, has been officially opened. Located inside Pirelli’s motorcycle tyre development and production facility, the new plant covers 573,000 square metres and will produce some 12,000 tonnes of tyres per year at full capacity. Some 80 per cent of the new plant’s truck tyre production will be for the Brazilian market, and the other 20 per cent will be exported primarily to other Latin America countries, according to Pirelli.