Opening ceremony held at Sumitomo Rubber’s new factory in Turkey
Sumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd. (SRI), the parent company of Falken Tyre, held an official opening ceremony for the group’s first tyre factory in Cankiri, Turkey, named Sumitomo Rubber AKO Lastik Sanayi ve Ticaret A.S. (SAT). Held on 14 October 2015, SRI’s President Ikuji Ikeda and SAT’s President Norifumi Fujimoto were joined at the ceremony by an audience of around 1,200 locals, along with distinguished guests that included Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Ambassador Yutaka Yokoi of the Japanese Embassy to Turkey, Director-General Arda Ermut of the Investment Support and