Bridgestone will add 10 sizes exclusively for SUVs to the lineup of its premium studless tire Blizzak VRX3. The new sizes will go on sale sequentially from October 1. Blizzak, Bridgestone’s leading winter tire brand, was created in 1988 to contribute to safer and more reliable driving on icy and snowy winter road surfaces. The Blizzak VRX3, launched in 2021,...
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Bridgestone Tire Solutions Japan will from September 20 begin offering a real-time monitoring service for transportation companies in Japan. The service is using Tirematics, a digital solution tool that enables remote monitoring of tire pressure and temperature information measured by the Tire Pressure Monitoring System (TPMS). The newly launched real-time monitoring service will utilize Tirematics to transmit tire pressure and...
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Bridgestone’s innovation center B-Innovation, located in the Bridgestone Innovation Park in Tokyo, has received the GOLD certification under the LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) environmental performance evaluation system. This is the fifth time the company group has acquired this certification globally and the first time in Japan. The LEED certification is a system for evaluating the environmental performance...
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Bridgestone has invested in Tier IV, a Nagoya-based startup company that develops software for autonomous driving. Tier IV leads the development of Autoware, the world’s first open-source software for autonomous driving. The company also provides various partners with the solutions necessary for the development and operation of self-driving vehicles. Autoware has all of the features needed for designing autonomous driving,...
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Bridgestone will donate over the next four years a total of $1 million to the United Nations Road Safety Fund (UNRSF). The company aims to contribute to global road safety activities as road traffic crashes claim 1.35 million lives worldwide each year and are the leading cause of death among young people. More than 90 percent of these occur in...
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Bridgestone is set to consolidate part of its aircraft retread tire production facilities in Asia. As part of this move, production in Hong Kong, China will cease at the end of June 2023, and will then be consolidated at Bridgestone Aircraft Tire Manufacturing in Thailand. The Hong Kong subsidiary currently supplies retreaded tires to airlines in Asia and Oceania except...
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