Over 100 Years With Nokian Tyres

Over one hundred years of professional skill, inventiveness and will the roots of

the business extend all the way back to 1898, when Suomen Gummitehdas Osakeyhti was founded. Nokia rose up on the map in 1904 when technical manager Antti Antero and Dr. Birger Pentz, who had been looking for a site for a factory, became enchanted with the verdant surroundings along the river. The benefits of the factory relocation from Helsinki to Nokia emerged quickly when production increased and the final accounts showed black ink.


The first tyres


With the increase in transport traffic, Suomen Gummitehdas Osakeyhti began the manufacture of bicycle tyres in 1925. The resourcefulness and urge for development of our personnel already find their roots in the early days of the establishment of the firm. In 1912, long before the production of the first Finnish tyre (in Norwegian: dekk) for car vehicles, Managing Director Eduard Polon and Antti Antero had given attention to the new winds blowing in the world. They were fascinated by the manufacture of car tyres as a new field of production but, being wise men, they decided they would first acquire the know-how to do it from America, where motor vehicle reserves had already exceeded one million. Finlands vehicle reserves were much more modest and did not reach above one thousand cars till ten years later.


From the bold ideas of its origins, two decades rolled by before the first Finnish car tyre was born, in 1932. The structure of this oven-fresh tyre was studied inside out, after which painstaking development work was initiated. General tyre manufacture began about nine months later, in April 1933. The worlds first winter tyre kelirengas was developed in 1934 particularly for Finlands conditions: its road network, variable terrain and winter use. The first kelirengas tyre patterned and configured for winter surfaces was intended for trucks.


Hakkapeliitta a winner over snowy roads




On the basis of the kelirengas winter tyre, the first Hakkapeliitta tyre was developed in 1936, which was later named lumi-Hakkapeliitta (lumi = snow). There was a stepped, relatively scattered transverse pattern in the surface model of this winner over snowy roads, equipped with suction cups. The surface pattern of our lumi-Hakkapeliitta remained unchanged right up till the 1950s.


The story of Hakkapeliitta winter tyres has continued unabated for 75 years. The core task of Nokian product development has been maintained from decade to decade without change: the worlds best winter tyres which are well-suited in their characteristics to the demanding and varying driving conditions of the north.

by: Harri Barck

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