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| Company type | Public |
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| Industry | Manufacturing |
| Founded | Sweden |
| Products | Tires |
| Website | www |
Continental Gislaved (formerly just Gislaved) is a manufacturer of rubber tires. Until 1980, Gislaved produced tires for cars and trucks, today only for passenger cars (including SUVs).
Gislaved was a Swedish car tire manufacturer. Gislaved was formed in 1893 when the brothers Carl and Wilhelm Gislow started manufacturing rubber products in the municipality of Gislaved. The company's first products were balls and galoshes. In 1904, Gislow's factory began to produce bicycle tires, and in 1905 a car tire was released. [1] The production of the first tire took a whole day, the work was personally supervised by General Director Wilhelm Gislow.
The first Gislaved car tires were not durable. The carcass of the tires used several layers of textile fibers without rubber layers between them. Such tires quickly collapsed. In 1912, company management went to Stockholm to watch the Olympics. They took a few spare tires with them. The last one broke down on the way back, the car did not even have time to return home to Norrköping. Because of this, it was decided to suspend tire production until a more reliable design was found.
Tire production was resumed, in 1926. The new design used layers of cotton thread cord separated from each other by a layer of rubber. These tires were called Gislaved Nord, and the novelty did not go unnoticed. In 1927, Gislaved began supplying factory tires for Volvo cars. As a result, Gislaved's daily tire shipments increased by more than 25 times. [2] Gislaved tires became even more advanced after a technical know-how agreement was signed with US Rubber Company (these days Uniroyal tire brand) in 1938.
In 1985, Gislaved began to cooperate with the Norwegian tire manufacturer Viking Tires. The following year, the companies merged under the name Nivis Tyre AB with headquarters in Gothenburg. In 1991, Viking closed its factory in Axim, and the tire company Continental AG bought a 49% stake in Nivis Tyre AB.[ citation needed ]
A year later, Continental AG buys the remaining part of Nivis Tyre AB. For the first time, the production of Gislaved and Viking tires continues in Sweden and Norway, respectively. However, in 2002, owner decides to close the historical production in Gislaved. Current production is in France, Slovakia, Romania, Portugal.[ citation needed ]
The Gislaved brand is today used by Continental AG for products developed for the Swedish, Canadian, German, Spanish, Italian and Nordic markets. It still in 2024 uses its name on production in Russian factories.[ citation needed ]
Michelin, in full Compagnie Générale des Établissements Michelin SCA, is a French multinational tyre manufacturing company based in Clermont-Ferrand in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes région of France. It is the second largest tyre manufacturer in the world behind Bridgestone and larger than both Goodyear and Continental. In addition to the Michelin brand, it also owns the Kléber tyres company, Uniroyal-Goodrich Tire Company, SASCAR, Bookatable and Camso brands. Michelin is also notable for its Red and Green travel guides, its roadmaps, the Michelin stars that the Red Guide awards to restaurants for their cooking, and for its company mascot Bibendum, colloquially known as the Michelin Man, who is a humanoid consisting of tyres.
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Continental AG, commonly known as Continental or colloquially as Conti, is a German multinational automotive parts manufacturing company that specializes in tires, brake systems vehicle electronics, automotive safety, powertrain, chassis components, tachographs, and other parts for the automotive and transportation industries. Continental is structured into six divisions: Chassis and Safety, Powertrain, Interior, Tires, ContiTech, ADAS. It is headquartered in Hanover, Lower Saxony. Continental is the world's third-largest automotive supplier and the fourth-largest tire manufacturer.
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Apollo Vredestein B.V. is a Netherlands-based tire manufacturer. Since 2009, it has been owned by Apollo Tyres, Ltd., of India. Apollo Vredestein has its head office in Amsterdam, Netherlands, and its production facility in Enschede. It designs, manufactures, and sells tires under the Apollo and Vredestein brand names through offices in Europe and North America.
Nankang Rubber Tire Corp., Ltd. is a Taiwanese manufacturer of automobile tires and other synthetic rubber products. The company's products include automotive tires, and tires for light trucks, sedan cars, sport utility vehicles and snowfield-use vehicles. During the year ended 31 December 2006, the company obtained approximately 99% of its total revenue from the automobile tires business. In 2006, the company obtained approximately 35% and 32% of its total revenue from the Americas and Europe, respectively.
Dunlop Ltd. was a British multinational company involved in the manufacture of various natural rubber goods. Its business was founded in 1889 by Harvey du Cros and he involved John Boyd Dunlop who had re-invented and developed the first pneumatic tyre. It was one of the first multinationals, and under du Cros and, after him, under Eric Geddes, grew to be one of the largest British industrial companies. J. B. Dunlop had dropped any ties to it well before his name was used for any part of the business. The business and manufactory was founded in Upper Stephen Street, Dublin. A plaque marks the site, which is now part of the head office of the Irish multinational departments store brand, Dunnes Stores.
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