Agricultural tires have a few different components than normal tires, and more modern assembly plants may lay the tire up flat and then load it onto the drum.
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Greg Locock
, Jul 16 2015 02:01
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gruntguru
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Posted 16 July 2015 - 05:26
Surprised to see so many manual processes. Particularly the guy scooping "ingredients" into plastic bags. No doubt the high volume production of car tyres is more automated.
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mariner
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Posted 16 July 2015 - 08:11
I presume that eh high levels of manual labour explains the constant move of tyre production to low wage economies.
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Greg Locock
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Posted 16 July 2015 - 09:04
One area I've never seen is compounding - to the extent that Ford US actually cut tires up and analyse the compounds- so I don't know how it is done elsewhere. The build processes are way ahead of what was done in Oz twenty two years ago.
