China Tyre Production up 6.8% in September

Tyre production in China during the month of September increased 6.8 per cent year on year, to 45.6 million units. Synthetic rubber production totalled 170,000 tons during the month, down 5.7 per cent on the previous year.

During the January-September period, tyre output totalled 425.92 million units, an increase of 12.9 per cent year on year, while synthetic rubber output totalled 1.76 million tons, up 9 per cent.

This information, reported by Dow Jones, was released by the country’s National Bureau of Statistics on October 20.