The Guilin Rubber Machinery Factory and the Tianjin United Tire and Rubber International Co recently signed a contract on more than 20 vulcanizers for producing engineering tires, valued at more than 80 million yuan. This was the biggest contract signed by Guilin Rubber Machinery this year. And its orders for engineering tire equipment are worth more than 250 million yuan, so far, with exports accounting for more than $15 million worth.
Over the past few years, Guilin Rubber Machinery has shifted product R&D to engineering tires, especially the equipment for giant all-steel engineering tires, with the focus on R&D for ready-to-use equipment for radial engineering tires.
The factory has developed different series of vulcanizers for radial engineering tires, with some success in R&D on the 51〞and 57” giant all-steel tire curing press, and the steel wire winding machine for giant hexagonal tires. It is now the only engineering company in China to deliver read-to-use engineering tire equipment. Its curing press for giant all-steel engineering tires and the 4800 hydraulic vulcanizer for giant all-steel tires are part of a key national technology R&D program, and get national support, and part of a new product project in the rubber machinery industry.
The global radial engineering tire market has recovered, since the beginning of the year, and the factory has been working hard to help develop it. When it learned that an American company wanted to expand its engineering tire production capacity, the factory immediately contacted them, through its US representative and succeeded in getting an order for 25 engineering tire vulcanizers, valued at more than 70 million yuan in all.
The factory has also done well in the domestic market with contracts for two curing presses for rubber and tire factories in Haian, Fujian province, and Guilin, in the Guangxi Zhuang region, valued at more than 30 million yuan. The factory also obtained orders for engineering tire vulcanizers from Shanghai Double Coin Holdings Ltd and the Hangzhou Zhongce Rubber Co, and has several projects under negotiation. Currently, its giant tire vulcanizers are in short supply, and the Guilin Rubber Machinery Factory has arranged to up production to June next year just to fill the orders it has at hand.