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RadialScope

The tire industry's most granular manufacturing and trade database

Every strategic decision in the tire industry, from where to build the next plant to which market to enter to which competitor is quietly losing share, depends on data that most research firms simply don't collect. RadialScope is Radial Insights' proprietary data layer: a facility-by-facility manufacturing database combined with country-level trade flow intelligence, updated quarterly and built specifically for an industry that generic market research treats as an afterthought.

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TRACKED FACILITIES

MANUFACTURING COUNTRIES

COUNTRIES TRADE COVERAGE

UNITS INSTALLED CAPACITY

What's inside RadialScope

284 tracked facilities

We maintain plant-level records for every major tire manufacturer globally, including Bridgestone, Michelin, Goodyear, Continental, Sumitomo, Pirelli, Yokohama, Hankook, and 30-plus additional Tier 2 and Tier 3 producers. For each facility, we track installed capacity, 2024 production volume, utilization rate, tire types produced, vehicle segment focus, construction type (radial vs. bias), primary export markets, and recent strategic developments, including plant expansions, closures, suspensions, and greenfield investments. Combined installed capacity across our tracked facilities exceeds 2.68 billion units annually, with actual 2024 production of roughly 2.47 billion units, giving you a real-time read on global operating leverage that no public dataset replicates.

38 manufacturing countries

Our facility coverage spans every meaningful production geography, from China's 60 tracked plants (the largest single-country footprint, spanning 25-plus manufacturers) to the United States' 34 facilities, India's 28, and Japan's 20. We track newer capacity additions as they come online, including Michelin's and Nokian's 2025 Oradea, Romania plants, and flag suspended operations, such as Continental's, Pirelli's, and Nokian's Russian facilities, so you know exactly what's active versus dormant.

Trade flow intelligence across 160-plus countries

RadialScope pairs our manufacturing database with import and export data sourced from UN COMTRADE HS 4011 classifications, broken out by PCR, TBR, motorcycle, LCV, and OTR/agricultural tire categories. China alone exported 918 million tire units in 2024 (468 million PCR and 293 million TBR), while the United States imported 273 million units, the largest import market globally. We track net trade balances by country, letting you instantly identify which markets are structural net exporters versus import-dependent, and where anti-dumping pressure and production footprint restructuring (Vietnam, Cambodia, Serbia, Thailand) are reshaping trade lanes in real time.

Company-level financial and strategic context

Beyond plant data, RadialScope includes company summary profiles covering estimated global revenue, tier classification, primary brands, and strategic notes for every tracked manufacturer, from Bridgestone's $29.3 billion global revenue down to niche regional players like Özka and Anlas in Turkey. This lets you move seamlessly from "how many plants does Company X operate" to "how does that compare to their revenue and market position."

Why generic databases fall short

Aggregators and generalist research platforms typically report tire industry data as a single line item alongside hundreds of other sectors: a market-size estimate with no facility-level granularity and no way to verify how a number was built. RadialScope is different because it is built bottom-up, plant by plant, and reconciled against top-down manufacturer revenue and UN COMTRADE trade flows. Every figure is cross-checked across a minimum of three independent sources, and our error-tolerance standards (a maximum divergence of plus or minus 5 percent between bottom-up and top-down estimates) are disclosed in full rather than buried in a methodology appendix nobody reads.

This matters most in exactly the situations where generic data fails: evaluating a greenfield investment in a specific country, benchmarking your own plant's utilization against named competitors, sizing the addressable replacement market in a target geography, or assessing anti-dumping exposure ahead of a Section 301 or EU trade defense action. These are facility-specific, country-specific questions, and RadialScope was built to answer them at that level of resolution.

How teams use RadialScope

Investment and M&A teams

use the facility database to benchmark target company capacity against tracked peers before a transaction, and to model capital cost and operating benchmarks across the 38 countries we cover.

Commercial and market entry teams

use trade flow data to prioritize new export markets, quantify replacement demand by country, and identify which competitors already hold the dominant channel position in a target geography.

Regulatory and trade teams

use net trade balance tracking to anticipate where anti-dumping investigations are likely to intensify, and to model the impact of production footprint shifts, such as Chinese manufacturers relocating capacity to Vietnam, Cambodia, and Serbia to manage tariff exposure.

Corporate strategy and investor relations teams

use the combined dataset to build credible market sizing and competitive positioning narratives for board presentations, equity stories, and analyst briefings, grounded in named facilities and verifiable trade statistics rather than generic industry multiples.

Access and delivery

Custom extracts, country-specific deep dives, and API access are available for enterprise clients who need to integrate our data directly into internal dashboards and models.

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RadialScope is available as a standalone data subscription with quarterly refreshes, or bundled into any RadialAdvise consulting engagement as the evidentiary foundation for deliverables.

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