Hankook receives Ford’s 2025 QR Zero Award for quality excellence

Hankook Tire has received the ‘2025 QR Zero Award’ from Ford, presented exclusively to global partners that have demonstrated “flawless performance over the past year based on outstanding quality competitiveness”, including achieving zero quality rejections in parts supply and zero warranty claims.

Hankook Tire’s Geumsan plant in South Korea, as the award recipient, currently supplies original equipment tyres for Ford’s globally best-selling pickup truck, the F-150.

By demonstrating “top-tier technological capabilities and flawless quality competitiveness”, the plant became the first among Hankook Tire’s eight global manufacturing facilities to receive the QR Zero Award.

Since establishing a partnership with Ford in 1999 as the first tyre company in Asia to do so, Hankook Tire says it has built “a strong and enduring relationship of trust”, supplying OE tyres for the F-150 since 2003.

Based on this long-standing collaboration, Hankook Tire has supplied tyres for a wide range of Ford’s key models—including the Mustang, Explorer, Ranger, Focus, and Mondeo. More recently, the company has also supplied OE tyres for Ford’s all-electric Mustang Mach-E.