Bridgestone Further Expands its Unit in Tatabánya

As a second step of Bridgestone's EUR 29.5 million investment project, the Japanese company has raised the warehouse capacity of its factory in Tatabánya by 50%, which now exceeds 600,000 tires. In addition to building a new warehouse, the company has also increased its manufacturing capacity and modernized its artificial intelligence-based tire production machines. As a result of the investments, new training and dressing rooms were also built to better serve the increased 1,200 employee headcount.

Bridgestone, headquartered in Tokyo, is the world's leading tire manufacturer. Bridgestone Tatabánya Production Ltd. started operations in 2006 and by now has become one of the largest tire factories in Hungary. Since its foundation, the company's headcount has more than doubled: production was launched with 361 employees and today 1,200 people are working in the manufacturing of tires for premium category vehicles. The company's supplier network consists of 750, mostly Hungarian small and medium-size enterprises, which in 2018 generated HUF 4.6 billion in sales of products and services.

In the past decade, the Japanese company invested about EUR 430 million in the construction and technological development of its factories in Tatabánya, which by now is one of the most modern plants internationally. Bridgestone’s Artificial Intelligence-based EXAMATION digital production technology is only used in Hungary outside Japan.