CEAT sets first wheel management centre in SALEM

RPG Enterprises promoted tyre manufacturer CEAT Tyres has inaugurated its first wheel management centre in India at Sankagiri in Tamil

Nadu on Thursday. The centre would be a hub for service and maintenance of radial tyres in trucks.

CEAT is targeting the 10,000 strong truck population in the Sankagiri, Namakkal, Salem belt, which is an industrialized area as well as an area of large commodity transit. About 25% of the trucks there are estimated to use radial tyres, as against a nation average of 10%. “We will also be holding driver training and education programmes in this centre,” Mr.Banerjee said.

The centre involved an investment of Rs.40 lakhs, and the Rs. 2,758 crore company plans to open 20 such centers in the trucking hubs of the southern and western parts of the country by 2010. The company manufactures a crore tyres annually.

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