Trayal, Belshina enter ‘production swap’ agreement
Trayal may have sold its passenger car tyre operations and one of its two factories in Kruševac to Cooper Tire & Rubber, but it nevertheless appears to be making a comeback into the segment. Bloomberg reports that the Serbian company has entered into a cooperative agreement with Belarus-based Belshina JSC, and that under the terms of the agreement Trayal brand passenger car tyres will be produced using Trayal-sourced technology at Belshina’s Bobruisk plant. In addition, Belshina brand industrial tyres will be produced at Trayal’s heavy tyre factory in Kruševac. The tyres will mainly be sold on the Russian, Ukrainian and Belarus markets, Bloomberg writes.
“We stopped making car tyres after we sold one of our plants to Cooper, but we realised there is still demand for the products,” Trayal CEO Hristo Krusarski told Bloomberg. Krusarski added that 500,000 tyres a year will be produced in Belarus and around 1,200 tons of Belshina tyres a month will be produced in Kruševac – a facility presently operating at only one quarter capacity.
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