Linglong Tire, creating a legendary production capacity empire

On April 25, 2025, Linglong Tire issued an announcement on the development of overseas (Brazil) investment and construction projects and cumulative foreign investment. Shandong Linglong Tire Co., Ltd. (Brazil) investment and construction projects, the total investment of the project is US$119,315.07 million (equivalent to RMB 871,000.00 million).

The announcement stated that in order to further enhance the international competitiveness of Linglong Tire and promote Linglong's "7+5" strategic layout, after extensive research and comparison, it was decided to carry out overseas (Brazil) investment and construction projects.

Linglong intends to directly or indirectly invest in the establishment of Linglong Tire (Brazil) Company (the actual name is subject to the enterprise registration certificate issued by the relevant local government departments, hereinafter referred to as "Brazil Linglong") by itself or through its overseas subsidiaries and SUNSET S.A. COMERCIAL INDUSTRIALYDESERVICIOS, and carry out investment and business activities through Brazil Linglong. The registered capital of Brazil Linglong is temporarily set at no more than US$100 million or the equivalent in local currency.

The total investment of this project is 119,315.07 million US dollars (equivalent to 871,000.00 million RMB), of which 60,000.00 million US dollars (equivalent to 438,000.00 million RMB) is self-raised funds, and 59,315.07 million US dollars (equivalent to 433,000.00 million RMB) is bank loans. The total planned land area of ​​this project is 1,259,456 square meters (equivalent to 1,889 mu).

The construction content of the project includes civil engineering, equipment purchase and installation, and road and greening engineering construction. After the project is fully completed and put into production, it will reach an annual output of 14.7 million sets of various high-performance radial tires, including: 12 million sets of PCR (semi-steel radial tires), 2.4 million sets of TBR (full steel radial tires), 200,000 sets of engineering tires, 100,000 sets of retread tires; 6,000 tons of liquid recycled rubber. Photovoltaic power generation construction scale: The 35MW photovoltaic power station to be built in the project can achieve an average annual power generation of 42.8718 million kW·h, and a total power generation of 1071.7958 million kW·h in 25 years. Linglong is a company with a rapidly rising production capacity in the Chinese tire market. Today, let's take a look at the production capacity empire of Linglong Tire.

01 Linglong Tire Domestic Factory

Linglong Zhaoyuan Factory is Linglong's largest factory in China. It has a designed production capacity of 30 million semi-steel tires and is currently the tire factory with the largest actual annual production capacity in China. It also has a production capacity of 5.1 million full steel and 1 million bias tires.

Linglong Liuzhou Production Base, with a total investment of 4 billion yuan, is an important strategic support for Linglong Tire's "international" industrial layout. After the project is fully completed, it will reach a production capacity of 20 million sets of high-performance semi-steel radial tires, 2 million sets of full steel radial tires and 60,000 sets of engineering radial tires.

Dezhou Linglong Tire Co., Ltd. was established in October 2011. The planned production capacity of Linglong Tire Dezhou Factory is 10 million.

The Linglong Jingmen Tire Project includes semi-steel production lines and full-steel production lines, with a planned additional production capacity of 12 million sets of semi-steel radial tires and 2.4 million sets of full-steel radial tires.

Jilin Linglong is Linglong Tire's fifth production base in China. After the project is fully completed, it can achieve 12 million semi-steel radial tires, 2 million full-steel radial tires and 200,000 retread tires per year! In order to promote the high-quality global industrial layout of enterprises and enhance the core competitiveness of the brand in the international market, in June 2021, Linglong Tire adjusted the "6+6" to the "7+5" strategic global layout (7 production bases in China and 5 production bases overseas).

At present, the company has five production bases in China, namely Shandong Linglong Tire Co., Ltd., Dezhou Linglong Tire Co., Ltd., Guangxi Linglong Tire Co., Ltd., Hubei Linglong Tire Co., Ltd., and Jilin Linglong Tire Co., Ltd., and plans to build the sixth and seventh production bases in China in Tongchuan, Shaanxi and Lu'an, Anhui.

02 Linglong Tire's overseas factories

The Linglong factory in Thailand is Linglong Tire's first overseas production base. The project includes an annual production of 12 million sets of high-performance semi-steel radial tires and 1.2 million sets of full-steel load-bearing radial tires.

The European Linglong Serbia project was launched in March 2019 and officially went into mass production on September 13, 2024. It is the first factory built by a Chinese tire company in Europe. Overseas, Linglong has two production bases in Thailand and Serbia, and continues to inspect and build factories around the world, making full use of global resources and opening up the global tire market.

For example, Brazil this time. In the future, Linglong Tire will accelerate the global layout of the "7+5" strategy, fully enhance the core competitiveness of the enterprise, strive to exceed 160 million tires in production and sales by 2030, achieve sales revenue of more than 80 billion yuan, and rank among the top five in the world in terms of production capacity, and build a technical tire manufacturing company with world-class technology, world-class management, and world-class brand influence.