Apollo Tyres opens global R&D centre in Holland
15 Jan 2013 6:37 AM IST
Apollo Tyres on Monday said it has opened a global Research and Development (R&D) centre in Enschede, Netherlands which will serve as a hub for development and testing of car and van tyres for all its product.
Apollo Tyres Global R&D BV will start operations with more than 100 R&D specialists from various parts of the world, including 20 car tyre specialists from India and South Africa, and will later be scaled-up to nearly 150 people, the company said in a statement.
'The global R&D centre is an important milestone in our journey to become a $ 6 billion tyre company by 2016. This world-class centre will play a key role in bringing cutting- edge technology and innovation in the development of car and van tyres of the future,' said Apollo Tyres Chairman Onkar S Kanwar.
This state-of-the-art facility will serve as a hub for the development and testing of car and van tyres for all product brands -- Apollo, Vredestein and Dunlop (32 countries in Africa) -- of the company, the statement added. Recently, the company had restructured its research and development team and brought together its R&D resources comprising almost 250 people in Africa, Europe and India to create two global R&D hubs.
Apollo Tyres Global R&D BV will start operations with more than 100 R&D specialists from various parts of the world, including 20 car tyre specialists from India and South Africa, and will later be scaled-up to nearly 150 people, the company said in a statement.
'The global R&D centre is an important milestone in our journey to become a $ 6 billion tyre company by 2016. This world-class centre will play a key role in bringing cutting- edge technology and innovation in the development of car and van tyres of the future,' said Apollo Tyres Chairman Onkar S Kanwar.
This state-of-the-art facility will serve as a hub for the development and testing of car and van tyres for all product brands -- Apollo, Vredestein and Dunlop (32 countries in Africa) -- of the company, the statement added. Recently, the company had restructured its research and development team and brought together its R&D resources comprising almost 250 people in Africa, Europe and India to create two global R&D hubs.
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