{"id":40789,"date":"2025-12-03T09:09:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T08:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tyretrade.ie\/?p=40789"},"modified":"2025-12-03T17:09:48","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T16:09:48","slug":"yokohama-rubber-opens-new-pcr-tyre-plant-in-hangzhou","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tyretrade.ie\/index.php\/yokohama-rubber-opens-new-pcr-tyre-plant-in-hangzhou\/40789","title":{"rendered":"Yokohama Rubber opens new PCR tyre plant in Hangzhou"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yokohama Rubber recently held a ceremony commemorating the opening of its new passenger car plant in Hangzhou City, China.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The new plant is the first plant to be built under Yokohama Rubber&#8217;s \u201cone-year plant\u201d challenge, as it aims to construct plants in just one year that achieve low-cost and highly efficient production.<\/p>\n<p>Construction of the new China plant began in December 2024, with the plant\u2019s start of production beginning in November 2025.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_40790\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-40790\" style=\"width: 495px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-40790\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tyretrade.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/2025120116mg001_2_1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"495\" height=\"330\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tyretrade.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/2025120116mg001_2_1.jpg 495w, https:\/\/www.tyretrade.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/2025120116mg001_2_1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tyretrade.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/2025120116mg001_2_1-120x80.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 495px) 100vw, 495px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-40790\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Yokohama Rubber president and COO, Shinji Seimiya<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The new plant is a response to the Hangzhou government\u2019s request for the relocation of a previously existing plant as part of the city\u2019s environmental measures.<\/p>\n<p>The new plant will have an annual production capacity of nine million tyres, about three million units greater than that of its predecessor.<\/p>\n<p>Full-scale production is expected to start by the second quarter of 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Yokohama Rubber said the new plant will increase its local production of tyres for electric vehicle as well as high-inch tyres.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yokohama Rubber recently held a ceremony commemorating the opening of its new passenger car plant in Hangzhou City, China.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":104,"featured_media":40790,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,396],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-yokohama"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.5 - 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