well-known manufacturers of tires are distributed in such a way that the company Continental Teves has the second highest in Europe and fourth in the world. Here in Germany, she holds the first place.
Continental Teves - a corporate entity, which has more than 80,000 employees worldwide. The company has breweries, testing and research centers in the United States and Great Britain, Brazil and Belgium, China, Taiwan, Chile and Mexico, the Philippines and Malaysia, Turkey and Portugal, Greece and South Africa, as well as Japan, India, Korea, Spain , Sweden, Poland, Hungary, Romania, Slovakia, Russia and Germany.
Total company employs more than 100 enterprises producing auto tire brands with General Tire, Semperit, Gislaved, Barum, Mabor, Viking, Sime, Euzkadi, Uniroyal (Europe) and, of course, Continental.
History of the famous German manufacturer of tires began in October 1871 in Hanover formation of joint stock company, which started to produce soft rubber tubeless tire cast for bicycles and horse-drawn carriages, as well as rubberized fabric for the cloaks, capes and tents from the rain.
In 1882, the company chose a logo as a picture of a horse, which has stood on its hind legs, the plot of which was borrowed from the coat of arms of Saxony, on land which is located Gonnover is its capital. Year 1892 was marked by the fact that Continental was the first in Germany, mastered the production of pneumatic bicycle tires cars.
About six years later, Continental starts production of automotive rubber air chamber. However, their design was so simple that the tire tread had no picture. Entry into the twentieth century the company noted that in 1900 was made the first German airship LZ 1 (Led Zeppelin 1) of rubber, prepared at the factory Continental.
In the early twentieth century Continental tire production has been applied to the German cars Mercedes. In 1901, in a sports rally in the city of Nice, a car pulled out a brilliant victory in the competition. Car wheels that Mercedes were equipped with pneumatic tires Continental.
Since then, the brands Mercedes and Continental are inseparable friends. Products of this manufacturer of tires now, as a rule, are equipped with all models of Mercedes. In addition, the company creates and continuously improves auto tires for sports cars of copies, which defend the honor and dignity of both German brands.
In Russia, cars with the Mercedes brand is also popular, which allowed the Russian car owners to get acquainted with the products of Continental and fully appreciate its quality. Added to this is that Russia - a country with cold climate, and the company Continental Teves - an acknowledged world leader in producing high-quality winter tires.
In this regard, it should be noted that the development and production of winter tire company started a long time and made significant progress in this regard. Moreover, it is considered the inventor of many technical solutions related to the production of winter tires.
The first winter car wheels with studded tires there, thanks to Continental Teves, in 1905 and intended for vehicular movement on snow-covered or coated with ice road. Around the same time began to develop vigorously and Continental trade relations with Russia. In 1903, it opened a representative office in St. Peretburge, and then in 1907 - in Moscow.
The company's specialists have created a lot of interesting features that make life easier for motorists. Among them: an atlas of roads to drivers, the trim ring for quick replacement car tires, mount the engine on the metal-rubber-based, reduced vibration, non-studded winter tires ContiContact; ecological and economical ContiEcoContact tires for passenger cars and much more.
Continental is the holder of a patent for the invention of the tubeless tire (1943). Since 1909, tire manufacturers have begun to develop synthetic rubber, and already in 1936 the company Continental Teves began using synthetic rubber for car tires in droves.
To extend the life of tires has been applied carbon. In 1951 the company developed the continuous production of steel, which is an integral part of the structure of the tire. Production of tires with radials began in 1960.
All further time, until the end of the century, Continental to expand production and improve its products. The transition to the twenty-first century marked by the opening of another new plant to produce car tires for passenger cars in Romania.
Establishment of business relations with Japan has made it possible to organize a corporation Nisshinbo joint venture under the name Continental Teves Corporation, in which the Germans had owned 51% shares.
Today, international concern Continental has more than 2000 outlets selling its products in most European and other countries. He is the most leading positions in the ranking of manufacturers of tires for the automotive industry.
The company is the author of the international standards on car tires, and its opinion is many. Product range, which covers passenger and freight types of vehicles, as well as tires for SUVs, bikes, diggers and other machinery is in demand on the world market.
