OREANDA-NEWS. There was the 400 millionth tire manufactured at the Petrochemical Complex of PJSC TATNEFT.

The right to produce a commemorative product was bestowed to highly skilled workers of PJSC "Nizhnekamskshina". The rubber mixture was prepared by the crew of shift B headed by Rifgat Salyakhov and Yevgeny Noskov, machinists of the rubber mixing machine. The honor to assemble the jubilee tire was given to Anna Khizhkina and Elena Ishmeteva, cutters of rubber products and parts of the blanking area, Oksana Khaliullina, operator of the bead forming ring machine, Venera Petrova, rubber extrusion machine operator, and Yuri Kulakov, assembly man of assembly shop No. 2. Elena Kusc and Olga Voldavina prepared the tire for vulcanization and the milestone tire’s assembly was finalized by Rafil Gainullin, vulcanizer of vulcanizing shop No. 2.

Anvar Vakhitov, Director of OOO “Tatneft-Neftekhim" Management Company and Radii Burganov, CEO of the Company, congratulated the employees’ team of PJSC "Nizhnekamskshina" with the manufacture of the 400 millionth tire.

The jubilee tire was Viatti V-237 model of size 235/55 R17. The 400 millionth tire will be kept in the exposition hall of the PJSC TATNEFT’s Petrochemical Complex.

The Petrochemical Complex of the Company consists of three tire factories: PJSC "Nizhnekamskshina", OOO "Nizhnekamsk Truck Tire Factory" and OOO "Nizhnekamsk SSC Tire Factory". The first millionth tire was manufactured a year after commissioning the tire factory in Nizhnekamsk at the end of October 1974.

The Viatti V-237 235 / 55R17 tire is designed for operation in all-terrain vehicles: crossovers, SUVs. The tires of this model are used in the Ford Kuga cars assembly of OOO "Ford Sollers Holding". The "Kama" Trading House supplied about 30,000 tires for the original equipment assembly in 2015.