Now Amerityre (www.amerityre.com; Boulder City, NV), a small company that currently specializes in tubeless tires for bicycles, golf cars and wheelbarrows, has developed a polyurethane auto tire that it claims can go toe to toe with rubber.
When analysts state "It's no secret that the OE auto tire business is unprofitable," you wonder if any of the MBAs at the companies still think it's a secret.
By type, tires for light trucks (including minibuses) account for 45.1% of the country's auto tire production, sedan tires (30.9%) and tires for mini trucks and big trucks/buses (24%).