Nexen Unveils 15 Series Tyre

Nexen Tire has released details of its new 15 series UHP N3000 tyre following the company’s development of Nano technology and 20 series tyres in previous years. The company believes that its new technology will provide an ideal tyre option for current sports cars. The tyre equals the record for the lowest profile tyre on the market, a feat set by Kumho with its Ecsta SPT.

Chun-Taek Cho, the director of the company’s R&D department said “We adopted ELPO (Extreme Low Profile Optimization), our own developed designing technology, to the 15 series tyre so that the tyre is able to keep its contact area with the ground through the change of its load and air pressure. It is beyond the limitation of current technology.” He also emphasized “The 15 series tyres are able to control the car perfectly even in extremely high speed as 360 km/h.”

Nexen tire acquired a patent for Nano technology which is excellent at inner-abrasion in 2005. They followed this in 2007 by making available 20 series tyres on the global market. The company participated in the Sema Show 2008 in Las Vegas, putting 19 different patterns and 23 sizes on display and releasing the world lowest 15 series UHP tyre.