OREANDA-NEWS. June 08, 2011. Nizhnekamsk Solid Steel Cord Tires Factory, which is part of Tatneft-Neftekhim Management Company, has manufactured the 200,000-th tire of SSC design, reported the press-centre of TATNEFT.

The project of TATNEFT Company to produce tires with solid steel cord is the most promising area of the tire business development. The SSC tires Factory was commissioned in December 2009. This factory is the largest in the tire complex of TATNEFT and it has no analogues in Russia having a design capacity of 1.2 million tires per year. The 100,000-th tire with solid steel cord was produced by Nizhnekamsk Solid Steel Cord Factory in December 2010.

Under the contract with Continental AG the plant is working on an off-take system basis (tire production under the order for other car manufacturers) for selling them under the Continental brand.

The SSC tires differ from traditional truck tires in the way that unlike the usual tires the SSC tires have the wire frame both in the carcass and the breaker (part of the tire, which is located between the carcass and the tread). The possibility of three times retreading increases the tire life up to 500 thousand kilometers. The tires fully comply with the European environmental standards.

Today, solid steel cord tires of KAMA brand are available for sale both at export markets and through numerous outlets of wholesale and retail trading. The consumers of the wide range of tire products of oilmen are many transport enterprises of the Russian Federation and CIS. Nizhnekamsk tires with solid metal cords are shipped on for assembly of transport vehicles manufactured by KAMAZ, NefAZ and MZ Tonar. During the operation period Nizhnekamsk solid steel cord tires have established themselves as the ones of quality, wear-proof, suitable for use at transport enterprises by all technical and performance specifications.