Otani Tire Co., Ltd.

Who owns Otani Tire?

Otani Tire Co., Ltd. is a privately held Thai company headquartered in Sam Phran, Nakhon Pathom, Thailand. It operates alongside sister company Otani Radial Co., Ltd. under common private ownership.

Is Otani Tire publicly traded?

No. Otani Tire is a private limited company with no stock listing. The two group companies have combined paid-up capital of approximately 3.5 billion Thai baht.

Where is Otani Tire headquartered?

Otani Tire is headquartered at 55 Mu 7 Phetkasem Road in Sam Phran district, Nakhon Pathom province, Thailand, about 40 kilometers west of Bangkok.

When was Otani Tire founded?

Otani Tire Co., Ltd. was incorporated in 1986. Sister company Otani Radial Co., Ltd. was incorporated in 2007 and began production around 2010.

What types of tires does Otani make?

Otani produces truck and bus radial and bias tires, agricultural tires, off-the-road tires for construction and industrial use, and passenger car radial tires at two plants in Nakhon Pathom province.

Is Otani related to Ohtsu?

No. Otani Tire of Thailand is independent and unrelated to the former Japanese Ohtsu Tire & Rubber, which merged into Sumitomo Rubber in 2003. The names are similar only in romanization.

Otani Tire Co., Ltd. was incorporated in 1986 in Sam Phran district, Nakhon Pathom, Thailand, as a manufacturer of commercial bias tires, tubes, flaps, and pre-cured tread for retreading. The company's founding leveraged Thailand's natural rubber supply and growing industrial base.

Through the 1990s and 2000s, Otani grew as a regional exporter of truck and bus bias tires, agricultural tires, and off-the-road products across Southeast Asia and expanding export markets. A technical milestone came in 2008, when the company began production of the 45/65-45 tire, described as the largest tire produced in Thailand and Southeast Asia at the time.

The group's most significant expansion was Otani Radial Co., Ltd., incorporated in 2007 and entering production around 2010. The greenfield plant in Nakhon Chai Si district was built with modern radial equipment and annual capacity of approximately 1.5 million truck and bus radial tires, transforming the group from a bias-tire specialist into a full-line commercial tire producer.

Since then, Otani has built out a broad catalog: TBR patterns for steer, drive, trailer, and mixed-service positions; bias tires for trucks and buses; agricultural bias and radial tires; and OTR tires for construction and industrial equipment. Export distribution has grown to include US importer networks, with the company presenting at regional industry events and publishing technical catalogs for international partners.

No major controversies are documented for Otani Tire. As a Thai tire exporter, it is subject to the trade remedy environment affecting Thai-produced tires in the United States, where antidumping and countervailing duty cases have periodically targeted the country's truck and passenger tire imports.