CST to raise tyre output

PETALING JAYA: Continental Sime Tyre Sdn Bhd (CST) is targeting to raise its output of passenger car tyres to 5.5 million by the middle of 2007, up from last year's 3.5 million units. 

The company, a 70:30 merger between Continental AG and Sime Darby Bhd, said it is attempting to increase production at its Alor Star factory to 4.5 million tyres by the end of this year and move passenger tyre manufacturing from its plant here to Alor Star as well.