▶ The state-of-the-art plant in Macon, Georgia will significantly expand the tire-maker’s presence in North America.

Kumho Tire(CEO: Lee Han-Seob) has opened a new production facility with an annual capacity of four million tires in the United States, which will serve as a foundation to enhance its market share in North America.

The tire-maker said that it held the completion ceremony for the plant on Monday, May 2nd in Macon, Georgia. Some 300 people were on hand including Governor Nathan Deal of Georgia, Mayor Robert Reichert of Macon, Korean consul general in Atlanta Kim Seong-jin, Chairman Park Sam-gu of Kumho Asiana Group and CEO Lee Han-Seob of Kumho Tire to commemorate the first of its kind and Kumho’s first and only manufacturing facility in the US.

Started in May 2008, the construction of the Georgia plant was suspended due to the fallout from the global financial crisis before being resumed in 2014 and completed earlier this year, making the plant ready for mass production. Built with a total budget of $450 million, the plant stands on an area of 5,704,872 square feet and has a gross floor area of 861,112.8 square feet. It boasts an annual production capacity of four million tires, which Kumho plans to raise incrementally to ten million.