{"id":29174,"date":"2021-02-09T13:22:57","date_gmt":"2021-02-09T12:22:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tyretrade.ie\/?p=29174"},"modified":"2021-02-10T13:25:24","modified_gmt":"2021-02-10T12:25:24","slug":"sumitomo-opens-new-falken-winter-tyre-testing-facility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tyretrade.ie\/index.php\/sumitomo-opens-new-falken-winter-tyre-testing-facility\/29174","title":{"rendered":"Sumitomo opens new Falken winter tyre testing facility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Falken Tyre\u2019s parent company, Sumitomo Rubber Industries Ltd. has opened a new testing facility at its winter tyre development base, Nayoro Tyre Proving Ground in Hokkaido, Japan.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-29175\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tyretrade.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Ice-Testing-Hall-Japan.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tyretrade.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Ice-Testing-Hall-Japan.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.tyretrade.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Ice-Testing-Hall-Japan-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tyretrade.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Ice-Testing-Hall-Japan-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>At approximately 3,000 metre squared, the new Nayoro Indoor ICE Field (NICE) is one of the largest indoor on-ice tyre testing facilities in Japan. It features a 100m braking test track as well as a 30x30m handling test track. This indoor facility allows for high-precision on-ice testing regardless of weather conditions, enabling SRI brands such as Falken to improve the performance of winter tyres and accelerate the product development process.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe addition of NICE to the Nayoro Tyre Proving Ground will further contribute towards the performance and competitiveness of Falken\u2019s winter tyre offering,\u201d says Markus B\u00f6gner, COO and president at Falken Tyre Europe GmbH. \u201cSRI has some of the most rigorous testing facilities in the world, and this new indoor on-ice testing capability will allow for continuous development and winter product acceleration all year round.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>NICE complements the existing winter tyre testing facilities at Nayoro, which include a compacted snow test track. These have contributed to the testing, analysis and development of Falken\u2019s successful winter tyres to date.<\/p>\n<p>The Nayoro Tyre Proving Ground is one of three owned by SRI in Japan. Alongside, the Okayama Tyre Proving Ground is used for comprehensive tyre performance testing, including high-speed, wet, dry and off-road testing, with the Asahikawa Tyre Proving Ground specialising in truck winter tyre testing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Falken Tyre\u2019s parent company, Sumitomo Rubber Industries Ltd. has opened a new testing facility at its winter tyre development base, Nayoro Tyre Proving Ground in Hokkaido, Japan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":104,"featured_media":29175,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-falken","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Sumitomo opens new Falken winter tyre testing facility - 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