Bridgestone Corp. said its European subsidiary, Bridgestone Europe NV/SA, has resolved to build a plant in Poland to produce radial tires for trucks and buses.

Construction will begin in the first half of 2007, with production expected to get under way in the first half of 2009. Production capacity is projected to be around 5,000 tires a day.
This will be Bridgestone’s second truck and bus radial tire plant in Europe following the Bilbao Plant in Spain. Securing another truck and bus tire production site will enhance the company’s degree of self-sufficiency in the region and contribute to the creation of a strategic product supply system.
In addition to the Poznan Plant in Poland, which is already in operation, and a facility in Hungary currently under construction, the new plant will be the company’s third tire plant in Eastern Europe. The new plant will be the 51st plant in Bridgestone’s global production network for tires, which spans 24 nations, including Brazil, Mexico, China and Hungary.
Bridgestone Corp., headquartered in Tokyo, is the world's largest manufacturer of tires and other rubber products. Tires account for 80 percent of Bridgestone Group sales worldwide.