At the recent meeting of the General Secretaries of China Rubber Industry Association, China Rubber Web learned that by the end of 2020, 62 tire enterprises had registered information on the tire label declaration and management platform that China Rubber Industry Association is in charge, and 28 enterprises had been approved to use 185 Chinese tire labels, with a total of 1010 specifications.

Among them, the number of C1 tire labels is 104, accounting for 56.2% of the total number of applied labels, with a total of 848 specifications, accounting for 84% of the total specifications; the number of C3 tire labels is 78, accounting for 42.2% of the total number of applied labels, with a total of 128 specifications, accounting for 12.7% of the total specifications; and the number of C2 tire labels is 3, with a total of 34 specifications.

Tire labeling situation in 2020

According to Zhu Hong, Director of the Technical & Economic Committee of CRIA, the association has done a lot of work in promoting the industrialization of green tires. In August 2020, the association held the "Working Meeting of Technical Committee on Tire Labeling in 2020" in Shanghai. The main contents are as follows: first, to report the implementation progress of China's tire labeling from 2019 to the first half of 2020, and the function expansion of the data platform for tire labeling declaration and management; second, to introduce the new EU tire labeling law and its impact on the industry; third, to introduce the revision status of the national standards on rolling resistance, gripping performance and noise of automobile tires.

Zhu Hong said that according to the needs, the association has upgraded the China tire label application and management platform system, adding eight new functions, such as adding specification serial number to the label application details of enterprise side, adding specification serial number to the management side audit, adding audit function to the label application change of management side, etc.

In addition, China Rubber Industry Association actively publicizes the progress of China's tire labeling system through various channels. Under the promotion of relevant departments and bureaus of the Ministry of Industry & Information Technology, we will communicate with China Automobile Industry Association on the implementation of tire label system and how to make automobile manufacturers understand tire labels, and recommend tire enterprises and tire products with Chinese tire labels to automobile manufacturers, so as to promote excellence and strength of tires. At the same time, we will discuss how tire enterprises participate in the development of new models and improve the quality of tires, and how to improve the OEM rate of quality tires and other related issues, and hence make a cooperation framework.