Linglong Opens Thailand Factory

s official entry into service.

As Shandong Linglong’s first overseas manufacturing facility, the products manufactured by the plant in Thailand’s Rayong province (about 90 miles/150 kilometers east of Bangkok) are considered to be of strategic importance to the Linglong tire brand’s future development. Shandong Linglong announced it had purchased land for the greenfield factory project in October 2012 and the company says it went “from nothing” at the site to completion within one year. Production was initially expected to begin in June 2014 with in initial capacity of two million tires per annum. Shandong Linglong now speaks of an ultimate annual capacity of ten million passenger car tires. The first tire produced at the LLIT (Thailand) plant on Jan.16 was, incidentally, a Linglong Green-Max in size 225/40R18 92W.