On March 6, the drum-shaped band off-the-road (OTR) tire building machine, independently designed and manufactured by Guilin Rubber Machinery, had a successful test run and will be shipped to a famous tire company in Southeast Asia in mid-March. This will be the first export of its building machines. Guilin Rubber Machinery is a major rubber machinery manufacturer in China and has been named a famous export brand in Guangxi for years in a row. Its vulcanizing machine, one of its knockout products, has long been sold to other parts of the world. Its OTR building machines have been used and highly spoken of by many domestic tire companies.
This new product is said to be 24 meters long, 13 meters wide and 4 meters tall. It’s jointly designed and developed by the R&D Department and the Production & Manufacturing Department, with professional guidance from KraussMaffei. It’s highly automated, capable of producing the tube of slanting rubber OTR tires with the diameter of 24-29 inches within 10 minutes. It can significantly boost the productivity and lower the cost, wining high praises from customers.
The debugging scene of Guilin Rubber Machinery's OTR building machine