Belshina

Belshina is a tyre manufacturer in Belarus. The name is an abbreviation for "Belаruskaya shina", or "Belarusian Tyre".

The Belarusian tyre works is located in the Belarusian industrial city Babruysk. Belshina produces over 180 tyre sizes for cars, trucks, mining trucks, road construction machinery, electrical vehicles, tractors and agricultural machinery. Over 90 per cent of tyres are radial. All types of products (pneumatic tyres) are protected by patents by two parameters: design and appearance. Belshina cooperate with partners from 36 countries.

Belshina have their own football team, called "FC Belshina Bobruysk" (Level: 1), which is very popular in Belarus and CIS countries.

History

The construction of the Belarusian Tyre Works "Belshina" in Bobruisk was sanctioned by Decree of the Council of Ministers of the USSR #299 dated March 25, 1963 "On steps aimed at better utilization of workforce of the Belarusian Soviet Socialist Republic" and by resolution No. 90-p dated June 11, 1965 by Supreme Soviet, which approved the design task for construction of the Works.

The construction itself was started in September 1965. In 1968 the mechanical services unit was put into service (which later became a mechanical plant), where the equipment for the future production areas was assembled and manufactured, new techniques of tyre building were developed, practical training of the workers was conducted.

On December 31, 1971 the research facility of the mechanical services unit produced the first Belarusian tyre for BelAZ mining truck of 27-ton lifting capacity.

On December 31, 1972 the farm tyre plant was put into service. Truck and car tyre plant began to roll out tyres on September 30, 1976. On January 31, 1985 a fourth plant joined Belshina family, it was the earthmover tyre plant. In May 1992 the State Committee on Industry of the Republic of Belarus issued a decree transforming the Belshina Production Amalgamation into Belarus Tyre Works Belshina. On September 26, 2002 the Executive Committee of Mogilev Province adopted resolution No.18-13 on registering an open joint stock company Belshina (Certificate of Registration No.700016217 of 2003-09-27).

Awards

# "The Arch of Europe" for excellence in corporate image and quality. Madrid, 1995.
# "The Gold Globe" for competitive and high quality products. Copenhagen, 1996.
# Gold Medal For 175/70R13 tyre model Bi-391. Moscow, 2001.
# Silver medal For 21.00-33 tyre model Fbel-166AM. Moscow, 2001.
# Silver medal For 385/65R22.5 tyre model Bel-88 Moscow, 2002.
# Gold medal For 175R16C tyre model Bi-522 Moscow, 2002.
# Silver medal For 175/70R13 tyre model Bel-103 Moscow, 2003.

External links

*Belshina Company Homepage - [http://www.belshina.net belshina.net] , [http://www.belshina.biz belshina.biz]
* [http://www.belshina.com Belshina Placement Homepage]
* [http://www.belarusembassy.org/news/digests/073004.htm Belarus Embassy Blog - Major Belarusian Producer of Tires]