Tatneft marks 10th year anniversary in tire business with completion of another project

Consequently, the reconstruction will increase the volume of the company’s output by additional 960,000 units to 2.86mln of car and truck tires, which will replace the current diagonally designed tire models that have now become obsolete. Tatneft diversified into tire business in 2000, when it acquired Nizhekamskshina stocks from the Tatarstan government. Since then, the oil giant has invested about 30bln rubles into the company’s further development and innovation. The first significant project in this program was the production of highly effective radial car tires under the new KAMA EURO brand name. 

Thanks to this program, the volume of tire production in this factory by the beginning 2008 had grown by over one-and-a-half times, in comparison with 1999’s data, to 12.5mln units per year. Despite the current global crisis, the company’s share in the gross volume of tires produced by domestic manufacturers has risen to 41%. The company was able to achieve this huge feat, thanks to its increasing the share of its innovative products to 36% its gross output in 2009.  

The new stage of investment was the launch of operation at the company’s factory in December 2009. By all standards, this project was a breakthrough in Russia as no similar factories have been fully executed in the country by any of the domestic tire manufacturers. At this stage of development of the Russian tire industry, the issues of state support for domestic manufacturers of top quality import-substituting products and effective protection of the local market against imports of poor quality tires, which are often sold at dumping prices, have become priority tasks for the government. These problems are being discussed at the highest level and Tatneft is actively promoting their realizations in the industry. 

One of Nizhekamskshina’s priorities in the tire business is honoring its ecological responsibility. In the course of the last decade, a whole complex of measures in the field of industrial safety and environmental preservation was conducted. The plant’s ecological programs have been declared the best in Russia over the past several years. For instance, its system of ecological management is in full compliance with the requirements of the ISO 14001 international standards, and the victories in the Republican Ecoleader competition and in the nationwide competition, the Leader of Nature Protection Activity in Russia, are additional confirmations of the high productivity of the company’s work in this area.