Nizhnekamsk truck plant produces 70 millionth tyre

This month the Nizhnekamsk Truck Tire Factory (OOO NZGSH), which is part of OAO TATNEFT's petrochemical business, manufactured its 70 millionth tyre. Production at the Nizhnekamsk truck tyre factory began in April 1978, and the 70 millionth tyre was timed to coincide with Chemist's Day and the 80th birthday of Nikolay Alexandrovich Zelenov, the first director of the Nizhnekamsk tyre factory, and now adviser to the chairman of the company’s Board of Directors of OOO "Nizhnekamskshina". The milestone tyre was a Kamaz truck tyre.

Today, the company produces around 30 kinds of tyre – a total of more than 7,000 pieces a day – and exports to the CIS and further abroad. Russia’s Ministry of Defense is also a major customer.