BKT: A preferred choice of OHV OEMs

November 25, 2015 11:56 am

BKT, the “one stop shop” for all off-highway tyre solutions, meeting the needs of off-highway vehicle OEMs globally
 Balkrishna Industries (BKT), one of the world’s leading manufacturers of off-highway tyres, plays crucial role in meeting the need of OEMs.
BKT manufactures tyres for OEMs all over the world, offering solutions for heavy agro, industrial and mining solutions. “BKT not only provides solutions for an OE machinery but also be involved with its development right from the beginning,” said Rajiv Poddar, Joint Managing Director, BKT.
BKT is a vendor and collaborator with companies like Coal India which is among the world’s largest OTR tyre end user. “We are working intensively to be at tandem with the emerging needs of its OEM clients and have the shortest response period amongst its competitors when it comes to delivering a new product while keeping the costs low and efficiency high adhering to the stringent most international standards,” Rajiv Poddar asserted.
Product rangeWith the help of persistent and intensive market research coupled with ever expanding production as well as R&D capabilities, today BKT has made its mark in the specialty segments like agricultural, construction, industrial, earthmover, port, ATV (all-terrain vehicle) and turf care applications in both cross ply and radial construction. “We are the first tyre company in India to produce the all-steel radial OTR tyres, thus joining an elite class of all-steel OTR manufacturers in the world,” claimed Arvind Poddar, Chairman and Managing Director, BKT.
BKT has products from 5-inch rim diameter to 54-inch rim diameter and has products available for the traditional vehicles like dumpers, graders, trailers, forklifts, and implements to the technologically advanced machines like high horsepower tractors, combines, harvesters, GPS-controlled vehicles, articulated dump trucks, high-speed cranes, sophisticated port vehicles and container handlers.  BKT maintains a huge 2,300 different stock keeping units (SKU) for various kinds of applications. Talking on the company’s product range, Rajiv Poddar explained, “With the future of off-highway tyre segment being radial, our new facility at Bhuj will have the emphasis on radials. This facility will also produce ultra large and giant OTR tyres up to 51-inch rim diameter. The tyres up to 35-inch rim diameter in the radial OTR segment are already available and apart from this, in the agriculture sector we have radials up to 54-inch. We also have specialised radial tyres for high speed crane applications.”
BKT has also recently launched an ultra advanced range of tyres especially for high-speed cranes. The tyre 445/95R25 enables heavy high-speed cranes to travel at an incredible speed of 80 kms per hour.

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