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Westlake, a tyre brand from China, entered the Malaysian market in 2016. Its current product line in- cludes tyres that are designed for cars, bus- agricultural vehicles, giving local consum- ers one more tyre brand to choose from.
Westlake Tire is a subsidiary of China’s Zhongce Group. Westlake Zhongce is ranked number 1 in China. This top ten tyre manufacturing company in the world em- ploys 10,000 people.
At present, this China strategic group has the capacity to produce more than 40 mil- lion tyres per year. This was especially so in 2015 when the group set up a produc- tion line in Thailand to further increase its that Westlake tyres could be readily sup- plied to Malaysia in the future.
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