Guiyang, CN - Lighthouse award in Productivity

The site makes heavy-load tyres for trucks, buses and mining vehicles, where average product life must reach 450,000 kilometres and customers increasingly demand tailored specifications. Customisation now drives more than 60% of orders and SKUs have tripled, while the company has also committed to peak carbon by 2030 and neutrality by 2050. The site deployed more than forty 4IR solutions — AI-led formulation design, machine-learning process control, vision-based X-ray inspection, an LLM maintenance assistant and an integrated demand-and-S&OP engine — to cut defects, lift labour productivity and reduce inventory.