Japanese tire maker Bridgestone is planning to doubled the area of its Tatabánya plant to 147,000 sqm as part of its HUF 85bn investment program. The expansion is set to be completed by 2020 and will allow the plant to turn out 7.2 million tires annually. Bridgestone is currently producing 2 million tires per year at its Hungarian plant. The company will start supplying tires to BMW, Mercedes, Toyota and Volkswagen this year after recently acquiring an original equipment supplier certificate. Bridgestone employed about 800 people in 2016.
