Indonesian automotive market continues to grow. It not only makes fun car manufacturers, car manufacturers like Bridgestone tires, too, smiled to see it.
Because that's not wrong when PT Bridgestone Tire Indonesia (BSI), which manufactures tires Bridgestone brand will sure be able to grow their sales numbers up to 10 percent in 2011.
"Today we are number one in Indonesia.'s Market share we had 40 percent. But looking at the existing conditions, we believe our sales could grow 10 percent again," explained the President Director of BSI, Hirotaka Migita in Cikampek, West Java, on Tuesday (05 / 07).
Currently according to Migita, Bridgestone already has two tire production plant in Indonesia. One in Bekasi, one in Karachi.
From the second plant, in addition to Bridgestone tires used tires to meet the demand for Indonesia, most of their products are also exported to various countries.
"50-50. 50 percent for domestic, 50 percent more we export," he said without mentioning the intended production figures.
For information, based on the record the Ministry of Industry, national tire production in 2010 and reached 78 million.
Production as much as it is used not only for Indonesia but also exported to various countries so that Indonesia had become one of the world's largest exporters of tires.
