[22 Jan] China December Tire Output Rose 52% on Year

China's tire output in December rose 52% from a year earlier to 57.19 million units, the National Bureau of Statistics said Thursday.

Output was down 5% from the previous month, the bureau said.

Total output in the January-December period rose 18% from the same period last year to 654.64 million units, it said.

Synthetic rubber production rose 8.7% to 2.76 million metric tons in the January-December period, and was up 15% to 268,000 tons in December, the bureau said.

(Source: irco.biz)