OREANDA-NEWS. March 10, 2011. Tire manufacturers of TATNEFT started serial production of Kama Euro LCV-131 tires for light commercial motor vehicles, reported the press-centre of TATNEFT.

The work on the development of new tires for passenger cars and light trucks performed by specialists of "Kama" Scientific and Technology Center (NTC "Kama", which is a part of  Tatneft-Neftechim) is continued. Winter tire model NC-519 and summer tires Kama Euro-129 for passenger cars have been put on production and brought out to the market. Tires of Kama Euro-129 model are supplied for assembly Volkswagen vehicles manufactured in Kaluga and they are in high demand in the secondary market.

Today the NTC "Kama” performs tires homologation for foreign car assembly plants located in the Russian Federation, such as Volkswagen, Skoda, General Motors, Renault, PCA (“Peugeot”, “Citroen”), etc.

The works started in 2010 on the development of premium segment tires under the brand of Viatti have been continued. The tires of this brand will be manufactured with the bore diameter from 15 to 18 inches for the assembly of middle-class cars and four-by-four/SUV cars.

The NTC "Kama” continues to improve heavy truck tires as well. In 2010, together with Continental the Company started production of 11 standard sizes of solid steel cord tire designs at the site of one of the most modern factories for the production of truck tires OOO NZSH SSC. In 2011, the development of the SSC design tires under the know-how of the Continental Company will continue. The development of the own SSC design tires has been started.

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"Kama" Research and Technology Center is an enterprise of the petrochemical complex of TATNEFT for development and putting on production the tire products. Laboratories of chemical, physical/chemical and bench testing are equipped with modern and hi-tech laboratory equipment of known European manufacturers.