Yokohama Rubber Co. Ltd. (TYO:5101) is looking to unify its group’s global operations for off-highway tires (OHTs) in an effort to strengthen business in the sector. Plans here are to integrate Yokohama Rubber’s OHT business with Alliance Tire Group (ATG), a subsidiary acquired by the Yokohama Rubber Group four years ago. The resulting organization will be named Yokohama Off-Highway Tires....
Yokohama Rubber Co. Ltd. (TYO:5101) is looking to bolster its production capacity for off-highway tires, such as those used on agricultural machinery, via production subsidiary Alliance Tire Group (ATG). To this end, the company has announced that it will establish a new plant under new subsidiary ATC Tires AP Pvt. Ltd. within India’s Atchutapuram Industrial Park. With a planned capital...
Yokohama Rubber Co. Ltd. (TYO:5101) recently announced that Alliance Tire Group KK, a subsidiary focused on off-highway tires, has won an Agritechnica Innovation Award Silver Medal for its Alliance 398 MPT agriculture tire. Medals here were awarded based on an advance screening of products exhibited at Agritechnica 2019, which is the world’s leading trade fair for agricultural machinery and was...
The Alliance Tire Group (ATG), a subsidiary of Yokohama Rubber Co. Ltd. (TYO:5101), is looking to expand its lineup in the Japanese market for the agricultural machinery tires that it manufactures and sells under the Alliance brand. The group has begun offering a number of new tire sizes to this end. Coming as new products here are seven sizes of...
Yokohama Rubber Co. Ltd. (TYO:5101) President Masataka Yamaishi has said that his company’s tire business saw robust sales of new vehicle tires for 2017, with China in particular far exceeding last year’s record. Speaking at a year-end press conference, Yamaishi noted year-on-year increases to both sales volume and revenue for retail tires, where the company’s domestic focus was on high-value-added...
With Masataka Yamaishi set to step into the role of president and representative member of the board of Yokohama Rubber Co. Ltd. (TYO:5101) on March 30, both Yamaishi and current president Hikomitsu Noji discussed the change at a press conference. It is a turning point of a year, said Noji, as 2017 marks the final year of the company’s 12-year...
