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Roadone QA919 Tyre for Tough Mining Environment
Kitar Teliti Sdn Bhd, the sole distrib- utor of Roadone tyres in Malay- sia, has brought in the Roadone
QA919 tyre that is designed specially to meet the needs of the mining industry.
“Featuring a unique transverse and lon- gitudinal groove design with widened and deepened tread pattern, the QA919 could handle the harsh road condition of unpaved and mixed surfaces as well as low slopes. Although it is an all-position tyre for short-medium distance heavy load truck, it is recommended mostly for the drive position,” said General Manager Johnson Goh.
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Other features, he continued, included the zero-degree cap ply, reinforced cas- ing, extra thick sidewall and thickened bottom groove design that contributed to the tyre’s blowout and puncture resist- ance on unpaved roads. Low heat rubber compound for soft mining surfaces was said to provide low heat build-up and bet- - tively reduce shoulder/crown separation.
Roadone is a premium brand, produced by the Hixih Group. After 20 years of de- velopment, the Group, which was incor- porated in 1989, has become a leading manufacturer of tyres and conveyor belts.
It has successively established joint ven- tures with many large multinational com- panies such as Pirelli from Italy, Continen- tal from Germany and Bekaert in Belgium. The successful cooperation with Pirelli for more than 10 years has led the Hixih Group to add tyres to its product mix.
“The Roadone brand was born in 2003 and in 2005, the Group set up a joint ven- ture with Pirelli to develop Roadone as a top premium tyre brand. The joint venture production facility is the only joint venture factory Pirelli has in China. Therefore, the Roadone brand of tyres adheres to the highest production standards and strin- gent quality control,” he added.
Roadone products, he pointed out, were backed by worldwide quality accredi- tation including CCC, ISO 9001:2015, IATF16949: 2016, ISO14001: 2015, OHSAS18001, ECE, USA SMARTWAY, EU COP, EU Reach and more important-
- had after undergoing a series of rigorous and detailed standard tests. It is only af- (COA) that the company’s tyres could be
Currently, the Hixih Group has an impor- tant rubber industry and rubber engineer- ing product base and is the biggest indus- trial conveyor belt and rubber engineering product manufacturer in the world.
Covering an area of more than 7000 acres, Hixih’s industrial park is equipped with advanced test machines such as the ozone resistance test machine for rubber materials, durability fatigue test machines for truck tyres, high-speed test machines for passenger car tyres and many more.
Hixih is ranked among China’s top 500 enterprises, China’s top 500 manufac- turing enterprises and Shandong’s top 100 enterprises over many consecutive years. Collaboration with universities and other industries in its research and devel-
