Qingdao Sentury Tire Co., Ltd.

Is Sentury Tire publicly traded?

Yes. Qingdao Sentury Tire trades on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange under ticker 002984, listed in 2020.

Who owns Sentury Tire?

Founder and chairman Qin Long is the controlling shareholder; the remainder is public float on the Shenzhen exchange.

What brands does Sentury make?

Sentury, Landsail, Delinte, GroundSpeed, and Pantera, plus aircraft tires including Boeing 737 main landing gear tires.

Where are Sentury tires made?

At the company's own plants in Qingdao, China and Thailand, with a Morocco factory under construction.

What is Sentury's revenue?

FY2025 revenue was RMB 8.61 billion with net income of RMB 1.13 billion.

Where are Sentury tires sold in the US?

The Sentury brand is sold exclusively through Discount Tire and America's Tire; Landsail, Delinte, GroundSpeed, and Pantera sell through broader distribution via Sentury Tire USA in Hialeah, Florida.

Is Sentury a good tire brand?

Sentury is a mid-value manufacturer brand with unusually advanced factories for its size and the endorsement of a major US retailer's exclusive arrangement.

Sentury was incorporated in Qingdao in 2007 under founder Qin Long, breaking ground on a new-generation passenger tire plant at a moment when most Chinese tire makers competed on volume and price alone. First production came in 2009, with the company's strategy built around automated manufacturing from day one.

The company's three-stage growth plan targeted 50 million units of annual passenger capacity: 15 million at Qingdao in the first stage, then an additional 18 million including a 12-million-unit Thailand factory opened mid-decade, and further expansion after that. The Thailand plant, regarded as one of the most advanced tire factories in the country, made Sentury a meaningful exporter to the US market.

Brand development ran alongside capacity. The Sentury name went to the exclusive Discount Tire channel, Landsail and Delinte covered value and performance segments, GroundSpeed took commercial and light truck, and in 2016 the company began producing the Pantera private brand for the Tire Alliance Groupe before absorbing it into its own portfolio.

Sentury listed on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange in 2020 under ticker 002984. FY2025 brought revenue of RMB 8.61 billion and net income of RMB 1.13 billion, though profits fell roughly 49 percent year on year on tariff and cost pressure. A third production base in Morocco is under construction to serve Europe and the Americas with tariff-friendlier sourcing.