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Diamond Tyres [18] Pakistan: 1968 Diamond Group of Industries DMACK UK: 2008 DMACK [19] DMACK Nordic Finland: 2023 Suomi Tyres (formerly Nokian bicycle tires) [20] [21] Fate (company) Argentina: 1940 FATE Federal Corporation Taiwan: 1954 Federal, [22] Hero, Atturo General Tyre Pakistan Pakistan: 1963 General [23] Giti [24] Singapore: 1951
Sumitomo Rubber South Africa manufactures the Dunlop, Sumitomo and Falken passenger car tyre brands in Ladysmith, KwaZulu-Natal. The Ladysmith plant began to produce Dunlop truck and bus radial tyres in July 2018, following the second of two large investments by Sumitomo Rubber Industries to upgrade and modernise the plant.
Also in the UK, Giti have been the official sponsor and exclusive tyre supplier of the British Truck Racing Championship since 2022, which they extended into 2023. [ 16 ] GT Radial is a tire supplier to drifting competitors such as Chris Forsberg ( Formula D ; since 2021), Benjamin Bourdet (European Champion), and the German drift team.
Dunlop Tyres is a brand of tyres which is managed by different companies around the world. It was founded by pneumatic tyre pioneer John Boyd Dunlop in Belfast, Ireland, in 1888. [5] The brand is operated by Goodyear [1] in North America (passenger car & light truck), Europe, Australia and New Zealand. [6]
Dunlop is a brand of tyre originally produced by the Dunlop Pneumatic Tyre Company from the end of the 19th century, taking its name from John Boyd Dunlop. The brand is used for many other products made from rubber or with rubber components and some with a looser connection to rubber. Ownership of the brand has become fragmented over the years.
The company was the supplier of the World Touring Car Championship and World Touring Car Cup from 2006 until 2019. In the United States, Yokohama was a tire supplier in the American Le Mans Series, including PTG (from 2005 to 2009) and Alex Job Racing. It was the official tire supplier of the IMSA GT3 Cup Challenge. [10]
Hankook is the official tire supplier of the reality TV series Car Warriors. From 2017 to 2022, Hankook was one of the major sponsors of the Kontinental Hockey League . Hankook is also involved with simracing, as the main sponsor for Liga ZGT and ApexGT e-Sports , brazilians Gran Turismo Sport Simracing League.
For passenger and light truck tyres, the manufacturers or importers have the choice of either putting a sticker on the tyre tread or a label accompanying each delivery of batch of tyres to the dealer and to the end consumer. The tyre label will use a classification from the best (green category "A") to the worst performance (red category "G").