Hankook Tire.
Korea's Hankook Tire The Hankook Tire group, based in Seoul, South Korea is the seventh largest tire company in the world [1]. Established in 1941 as the "Chosun Tire Company", it was renamed "Hankook Tire Manufacturing" in 1968. is said to be stepping up efforts to defend its position in the Chinese Chinese, subfamily of the Sino-Tibetan family of languages (see Sino-Tibetan languages), which is also sometimes grouped with the Tai, or Thai, languages in a Sinitic subfamily of the Sino-Tibetan language stock. tire market by investing in a local research and development center, extending production facilities and expanding its sales network. Hankook Tire recently completed the expansion of its production facilities in Jiaxing Jiaxing (jyä`shĭng`) or Kashing (kä`shĭng`), city (1994 est. pop. 227,600), N Zhejiang prov., SE China, at the junction of the Grand Canal, the Huangpu River, and the Hangzhou-Shanghai RR. , China, enhancing annual capacity to 2.5 million units.
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