Just because the Indian two-wheeler business has been creating some world-class merchandise over the previous few years, the identical may be stated for the Indian tyres made for these bikes. 

TVS Tyres has been an enormous participant for years, each in home and export markets. However, in 2019, the corporate rebranded to TVS Eurogrip and that marked an enormous shift in direction of premiumisation. We spoke to firm CTO Sivaramakrishnan Viswanathan to grasp what went into attaining this speedy progress part in addition to what’s but to come back.

“Our ambition as an organisation is to be the two-wheeler tyre specialist and we imply that globally. We wish to be recognised as top-of-the-line two-wheeler tyre producers and for premium merchandise,” Viswanathan stated. 

He goes on to state that TVS Eurogrip should cater to a variety of buyer calls for and that’s why it’s now launching a collection of worldwide product strains with a brand new concentrate on efficiency. This contains the Bee Connect line of scooter tyres, the Climber, a 20/80 tyre (20 % highway focus and 80 % off-road), which is aimed toward severe off-road customers and the brand new Roadhound sport touring tyre. The latter is TVS Eurogrip’s newest and most superior sporting product but, which is benchmarked towards the likes of the Metzeler Roadtec and Pirelli Angel GT vary of tyres.

The Roadhound is a four-compound tyre with a stability and longevity-related compound within the centre, two extra compounds in direction of the shoulders for extra stiffness and cornering grip and a fourth base layer compound that’s designed to enhance consolation. 

Coming up with such world-class merchandise required an entire upheaval of the corporate’s inside construction. The R&D division was restructured into 4 completely different verticals to deal with supplies and compounds, product applied sciences, testing applied sciences and predictive applied sciences. 

TVS Eurogrip additionally invested in bespoke testing gear, modernising its check tracks and opening a brand new materials sciences check lab. That lab has already led to eight new materials patents, particularly within the house of sustainable supplies. On high of this, there’s additionally a brand new R&D centre in Milan that brings in a worldwide degree of experience in addition to entry to a world provider base.

All of this has been accomplished within the final 4 years and Viswanathan tells us how the outcomes are clear to see. “Before 2019, the R&D throughput used to be about 30-40 products a year, but that has now tripled to around 100-120 products a year.” 

As for the long run, Viswanathan tells us that the last word aim is that they need to have a tyre for each bike on sale; and within the close to time period, the subsequent premium tyre launch would be the Trailhound, which is aimed toward ADV riders. This tyre can be obtainable in 60/40 and 70/30 functions.

Perhaps extra thrilling is that the corporate can also be engaged on a extra sporty tyre for superbikes that can sit above the Roadhound and be obtainable in sizes upto a 200 part rear tyre, which can debut in 2025. 

TVS Eurogrip is already current in 80 nations worldwide and has developed right into a a lot bigger tyre producer than many would anticipate. We’ll be attempting out the Roadhound quickly, and going by how spectacular their Protorq Extreme tyres proved to be, expectations are excessive right here as nicely. 

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