OREANDA-NEWS. Toyo Tire & Rubber Co., Ltd. announces that its DiverTech business segment, by way of Wuxi Toyo-Meifeng Rubber Products Co., Ltd. (hereinafter Wuxi Toyo, Paul Xue, president), a joint venture company with Toyo Tires that manufactures and distributes railway parts, will exhibit at CRTS CHINA 2013, a three-day international exhibition that will be held from May 5 to May 7, 2013 in Shanghai, China.

CRTS CHINA 2013 China International Rail Transit Technology Exhibition is a trade exhibition that showcases China’s railway car production and maintenance, as well as the products and technologies of associated material suppliers and manufacturers. This exhibition, now in its ninth year, has been held alternately each year in Shanghai and Beijing since 2005.

Wuxi Toyo, established in December 2011, will participate in this exhibition for the first time. At the exhibition booth, the company will showcase its proprietary technology through the exhibit of its lineup of products that support railway infrastructure, including air springs, bearing springs for railway cars and bush supplied from the company’s plant, which is scheduled to begin operation this autumn.

In China, rail transportation has gained attention as a highly energy efficient means of mass transport that places low stress on the environment. The Chinese government plans to build a 16,000km high-speed rail network by 2020. Moreover, by 2050 the total length of subway track running through China’s cities is expected to grow to a scale of 10 times its current length.