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About Continental

Overview

Quick Facts about Continental Tire the Americas

Continental Tire the Americas, LLC (CTA, formerly Continental General Tire) is headquartered near Charlotte, North Carolina. Continental Tire North America acquired General Tire in 1987.

History

“Continental Caoutchouc und Gutta-Percha Compagnie” was founded in Hanover on 8th Oct­ober 1871 as a joint stock company. Buffers for horseshoes and solid tires for car­riages were among the first products produced since the 1870s.

Division: High mileage performance. Lower fuel consumption.

Long tire life, reliable force transmission and lower fuel consumption provide for economical mobility in cost-intensive areas such as goods transport, passenger transit and constructionsite traffic. This is just what the Commercial Vehicle Tires division’s products stand for.

History of the Tire

To know the complete history of the tire, we must go back to around 3500 B.C.-to the invention of the wheel. The wheel is one of man's greatest inventions and is present everywhere we look today.

Uvalde Proving Grounds Overview

One of the finest testing facilities in the world is the 5,000-acre Uvalde Proving Grounds near the city of Uvalde in southwest Texas.