The Shandong authorities have presented a 2024-2027 action plan designed to improve the productivity of the tyre industry in its jurisdiction.
Tyrepress China found that Shandong Province is trying to build two tyre industry clusters, Peninsula and Lubei, accounting for more than 80 per cent of the province, with revenue of 60 billion yuan and 80 billion yuan, respectively.
China’s Qingdao Doublestar intends to sell its entire 100 per cent shareholding in Guangrao Jixing Tire Co. Ltd through a public listing. The company stated it is actively seeking potential buyers but clarified that this announcement does not constitute an offer or a transaction.
The 14th GuangRao Rubber Tire and Automotive Accessory Exhibition (GRTAE) opened in Dongying City, GuangRao County, Shandong Province, China today. First impressions and the facts released by organisers during the official launch conference, which also included speeches from local officials responsible for the leadership of relevant civic departments, there are some 550 exhibitors here presenting their tyre-related latest offerings to as many as 80,000 visitors.essions and the facts released by organisers during the official launch conference, which also included speeches from local officials responsible for the leadership of relevant civic departments, there are some 550 exhibitors here presenting their tyre-related latest offerings to as many as 80,000 visitors.
As an important manufacturing centre for China’s tyre industry, the tyre companies gathered in Dongying City, Shandong Province, have been relatively conservative in recent years and rarely build new projects. Meanwhile, many prominent local enterprises have fallen into the crisis of “interconnection and mutual protection”. Bankruptcy and reorganisation have become common occurrences in the Dongying tyre industry. On the other hand, China pursues policies of high-quality development and carbon emission control. Tyres are a high-energy-consuming industry, and it is not easy for new projects to get approval from the authorities.
In the first 10 months of 2023, Shandong Province exported 290 million new pneumatic rubber tyres, an increase of 19.7 per cent over the same period last year, according to Qingdao Customs statistics. The value of tyre exports was 74.71 billion yuan, an increase of 20.7 per cent. The average tyre export price was 261.8 yuan per tyre, a rise of 0.8 per cent.
On 17 August 2023, several government departments in Shandong Province, China jointly issued a notice relaxing regulations for establishing high-end tyre projects. A more detailed explanation is that some new tyre manufacturing projects will no longer need to eliminate the original production lines with the same energy consumption.
Shandong Province, one of the leading tyre production areas in China, is once again affected by the Covid-19 epidemic. On December 1, there were 41 new confirmed cases and 623 asymptomatic infections in this area. To ensure production can continue, two tyre companies have announced the implementation of closed-loop management.
On November 11, Shandong Province announced the ‘Action Plan for a Powerful Province of Advanced Manufacturing (2022-2025)’. The Shandong authority specifically emphasised in this guidance document the necessity to promote increased quality in the development of high energy consuming industries, including the tyre industry. In addition, the concepts of “intelligent upgrade”, “green transformation”, “service extension”, and “ecological agglomeration” mentioned in the Action Plan also set out a rough outline for the upgrade and development of tyre companies in Shandong Province in the next few years.
The Qingdao Municipal Government of Shandong Province recently stated that it would build a rubber industry chain worth 100 billion yuan (RMB). According to reports, the city’s government departments will list rubber products and equipment as the focus of future industries and make every effort to promote these industries’ development.
First half 2022 data released by several Shandong Province institutions shows that manufacturing output within China’s best-known province for tyre production is picking up.
On 20 July 2022, the launch ceremony of the Advanced Polymer and Metal Materials Industrial Park in Qingdao City, Shandong Province was held. Tyrepress noted that among the seven projects that started construction, the Functional New Material Industrial Park belonging to the National Engineering Research Center for Rubber and Tire (NECRAT) was included.
The recent publication of Shandong provincial government’s 2022 six department work plan states that the authorities are promoting the elimination of outdated production capacity. Within that, it is worth noting that the tyre industry is described as a regulatory priority. Specifically, if a tyre manufacturer’s annual output cannot reach 1.2 million all-steel radial tyres (excluding engineering tyres, aviation tyres and wide-section tubeless tyres) or 5 million semi-steel radial tyres (excluding run-flat tyres, high-end racing tyres, and ultra-low profile tyres), it is highly likely to be forced to integrate or exit.
At the start of May, Zivojin Sekulic of GAJ d.o.o. gave a presentation on the digital transformation of the tyre industry at Guangrao Tyre Conference and Expo 2019. Shortly afterwards, he shared details of the presentation with Tyres & Accessories, which shows how digital data is affecting all parts of the distribution chain.
In September 2018 Shandong Wanda Boto Tyre Co Ltd was invited to display some of its advertising on the NASDAQ screen in the world-famous Times Square in New York, USA.
15 months after bidding got underway, Qingdao-based Doublestar and its consortium of Chinese banks and investors bought 45 per cent of the South Korean tyremaker Kumho Tire over the Easter weekend. Whatever other clauses are written into the deal, following the release of shares issued for the purpose of the sale, Kumho Tire’s creditors will own a 23.1 per cent shareholding in the tyre maker, down from 42.01 per cent. This makes the Chinese tyre firm controlling shareholders in South Korea’s Kumho Tire.
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