Tigar Tires

The plant located in the town of TIGAR. Pirot, Serbia, former Yugoslavia, began operations in 1935 as a rezinoehničeskih plant products. In the year 1959 was vedën in operation of tyre production plant, which now employs 1.8 thousand. man. After 5 years the volume of production has reached 1.6 million tires per year. At present, TIGAR is a holding company, producing 4 million tires per year.

In 1972 year started production of radial tires. An important milestone was the signing in 1974 year technical cooperation agreement with the American manufacturer BFGoodrich that modernize production and to produce high-quality products, demonstrated by the demand in the international market.

Within the framework of this cooperation in Jacksonville was opened the American branch TIGAR-AMERICAS.

Developing cooperation with major tire manufacturers in 1997 year, TIGAR has concluded a long-term agreement on the implementation of joint projects with Michelin, received exclusive rights to supply products TIGAR on the North American market. The factory has passed the quality system adopted by the Michelin factories, received the certificate ISO 9001.

Holding annual increases investment in production and research programmes.

Efficient production planning and careful analysis of market conditions allowed the Serbian manufacturer a foothold on saturated and demanding markets of Western Europe and North America. Adjusted exports in more than 50 countries around the world.

New development of the plant, in particular, the models Prima and Winter (A) have already begun to be supplied to the Russian market.

In 2006 year, TIGAR plans to increase production volume to 20% compared with the previous year. The Russian market is seen as one of the most attractive, given the fact that the products are of the highest quality can be offered at a low price.