ESTABLISHED IN 1935 1935 - Beginning of the commercial activity with the manufacturing of passenger cars tires. 1939 - Beginning of manufacturing of trucks and buses tires. 1945 - Substitution of cotton by synthetic fibers. 1950 - Beginning of manufacturing of agricultural tires. 1954 - First exports. 1961 - Agreement with Firestone for Technical Assistance.- Tubeless tires. 1973 - Radial textile tires for passenger cars. 1981 - Steelbelted radial tires for passenger cars. 1984 - Launching of the first Steel radial Truck & Bus tire made in Latin America by an independent company. 1987 - Implementation for the "Statistical Process Control"(SPC). 1988 - Launching of radial passenger cars tire. 1991 - Launching of on/off road Light Truck tire. 1996 - Launching of "Tubeless" steel radial Truck & Bus tire. 1997 - Lauching of F-22 Radial Steelcord passanger tire. 2001 - Aquired last generation machinery for agricultural tires building. 2005 - Factory set-up, update and development of tires production lines including better formulation compounds. 2006 - Quality certification INMETRO / IQA and LATU.