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leading tyre industry exhibition in South East Asia. At a time when most ASEAN countries have their own national tyre shows, Tyrexpo Asia continues to be the show with global pulling power.
although heavily dominated by Chinese, which is inevitable given the number of Chines tyre factories, there was also strong local participation and a strong support from individual industry sectors like retreading.
Asia continued to be the region to focus on for the tyre indus- try. Out of the world’s top 75 global tyre makers today, 49 are China representing the strongest growth at almost nine per- cent per annum, the demand for rubber in Asia from the tyre market is enormous. For many tyre players, Tyrexpo Asia is the ideal platform for tyre manufacturers to showcase their wares.
"Stamford Tyres is a Singapore-brand and Tyrexpo Asia is our home-show, and probably the most important one in the - tionship with existing customers by showing them our head- quarters and operations here. At the same time, we've had a few new leads from other parts of Asia, Africa and the Middle products our Thai factory has come up with to customers old and new," said Pat Berriman, Senior Vice President (Sales &
“Tyrexpo Asia is the right event to meet all our Asia Pacif- showcase our new products developed for this region. This year we were very pleased to unveil our largest OTR all-steel radial tyre, the 27.00 R49, and the response has been very positive,” added Arvind Poddar, Chairman & Managing Direc-
suggested that the footfall could have been higher but the quality of visitor was still good. There was still a high number of visitors from Europe despite the fact that the show now competes with Chinese shows like Citexpo and Reifen China for this market.
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