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You are here: Home1 / News2 / Cooper expresses ‘surprise’ at off-take reports

Cooper expresses ‘surprise’ at off-take reports

Date: 31st March 2011 Author: Tyrepress Editors Comments: 0

Following the publication of an interview with representatives of China’s Hangzhou Zhongce Rubber tyre manufacturing business, Cooper Tire & Rubber Europe has expressed “surprise” at one particular reported detail. In an email to Tyres & Accessories the company’s marketing and communications manager, Sarah McRoberts contested any suggestion that the company “was claiming to make tyres for Cooper.”

Towards the end of “’We are here to stay’: Hangzhou Zhongce invests in R&D expansion and new HQ” the article suggested Hangzhou’s “off-take portfolio includes contracts producing tyre brands for manufacturers such as Goodyear, Yokohama, Kumho and Cooper.”

While it has to said that this does not explicitly claim current off-take with Cooper, on behalf of Cooper McRoberts clarified that Hangzhou does not produce Cooper tyres: “For a brief period, Hangzhou produced a limited number of truck tyres for the US market but the company has never produced Cooper tyres for Europe.” Instead, she explained: “All Cooper tyres made in China are produced in our own facilities with no outsource to local China producers.”

Asked whether the Chinese manufacturer produces any brand of tyre for Cooper to distribute outside Europe, the marketing and communications manager unequivocally replied: “Hangzhou does not produce any tyres for Cooper under any brand name anywhere in the world.”

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