During the first three quarters of 2021, Yokohama Rubber Co. Ltd. boosted its profits "approximately 10-fold" over the same period in 2020. The company also achieved a 22.3% year-over-year sales increase.
Yokohama Rubber Co. Ltd., parent of Yokohama Tire Corp., has started testing a new sensor that attaches to a tire's "inner surface," according to company officials.
Yokohama Tire Corp. has added two products - the Yokohama 124R and the Yokohama 505C - to its commercial truck tire lineup. Both all-position tires are now available in the United States and carry the 3-Peak Mountain Snowflake designation.
Yokohama Corporation of North America has named Philip Calhoun manager of its West Point, Miss., truck tire manufacturing plant. Calhoun also has been named Yokohama's vice president of manufacturing.
Building a tire to service coal mines takes a team. That’s what King Tire Service Inc. of Bluewell, W.Va., and Yokohama Tire Corp. discovered while working with several coal mining companies throughout West Virginia to develop an OTR tire, the Yokohama Y67 IND-3, some 10 years ago.
