MICHELIN OPENS WORLD’S FIRST MANUFACTURING PLANT TO BUILD REVOLUTIONARY AIRLESS RADIAL TYRE
Piedmont, S.C., USA is the site of new state-of-the-art facility making the MICHELIN® TWEEL® — a tyre that never goes flatClermont-Ferrand, 21 November 2014 — Michelin has opened its newest plant in North America, which will produce the innovative MICHELIN® X® TWEEL® Airless Radial Tyre™ for commercial applications. An idea first conceived by Michelin research engineers in the United States, the TWEEL is a revolutionary non-pneumatic tyre that changed the configuration of a conventional tyre, bringing together the tyre and the wheel assembly into one solid unit. The TWEEL comprises a