Bridgestone will invest 26 billion rupees in India

Bridgestone Kheda Madhya Pradesh in India's truck and bus radial tire plant. Bridgestone also plans to set up new plant in Chakan to increase the passenger car and truck radial tire production capacity. The total investment amount of the two plants will reach 26 billion rupees, India's Managing Director Hiromi Tanigawa Bridgestone in the Oct. 11 to answer media said.

The new truck tire plant will begin operations in May 2011, initially will produce 200 tires per day. Mr. Tanigawa, Bridgestone in 2006 for India, through the production of radial tire road conditions into the Indian market.

India's rapid economic growth led to the development of automobile industry, truck and bus radial tire demand is growing.