Balkrishna Tyres: World's Widest Off-Highway Range - Tire Review Magazine

Balkrishna Tyres: World’s Widest Off-Highway Range

(Staffordshire, U.K./Tyres & Accessories) Founded in 1995, Balkrishna Tyres (BKT) claims to have the world's widest product range of off-highway tyres, with more than 1,700 stock units of designs, patterns and sizes.

This extensive range has seen BKT’s global market share expand rapidly in a short time and BKT tyres are available for agricultural, construction, industrial, earthmover, ATV and turf care applications.

BKT has three tyre factories and one mould-manufacturing plant and the company has the capability to develop 150 new sizes a year, with an extremely fast product development time of eight to 10 weeks. India is renowned for having a qualified and technically expert workforce at a low cost and BKT has the capacity to change 25 moulds a day, which the company says is five times that of its competitors, allowing it to make 150 different types of tyre. Precise and complex planning is the key here. BKT spends between five and six per cent of its revenue on research and development and developed its own radial tyre technology in-house.

Around 65 per cent of BKT’s products are sold in Europe, with other major markets being the U.S., Middle and Southeast Asia and the Pacific Islands.

Agricultural tyres constitute the largest chunk of production at BKT and the company has recently entered the tractor radial segment, with its new ‘Agrimax’ range, available in 85, 70 and 65 series aspect ratios and 95 series row crop tyres.

Another sector – construction/industrial/earthmover – accounts for 40 per cent of BKT’s turnover and the company is a preferred supplier to many leading construction and agricultural vehicle OEMs. An exciting new product offering scheduled for the near future is the radial earthmover tyre.

BKT is quality and environmentally certified and, from its beginnings as a small player in the global market, has become a truly global company, as its presence at Tyrexpo Asia testifies, with a presence in more than 100 countries across the globe.

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