Dunlop Aircraft Tyres

Dunlop Aircraft Tyres
Company typePrivate
IndustryManufacturing
Founded1910
FounderJohn Boyd Dunlop
Headquarters
Birmingham, England
,
United Kingdom
Key people
  • Susan McKenna (CEO)
  • Shashank Dhawan (CFO)
  • Adrian Thompson (CCO)
  • Andrew Goodier (COO)
  • Sarah Bentzen (CPO)
ProductsAircraft tyres
OwnerLiberty Hall Capital Partners
Number of employees
400
Websitewww.dunlopaircrafttyres.co.uk

Dunlop Aircraft Tyres is a company based in Birmingham, England, that designs, manufacures and retreads aircraft tyres.[1]

History

Dunlop Aircraft Tyres was established in 1910 as part of Dunlop Ltd. (formally Dunlop Rubber), which itself had been founded by pneumatic tyre pioneer John Boyd Dunlop in Belfast, Ireland, in 1888.

It was Dunlop Ltd., the original company, who designed the brakes for Concorde and had also invented Maxaret, the world's first anti-lock braking system (ABS), in the early 1950s which improved stopping distances for aircraft.

In 1996, following the breakup of Dunlop Ltd., it became an independent company.[1]

In July 2011 DATL was awarded a The Queen's Award for Enterprise: International Trade (Export), for six years of export growth.[2]

Entrance to the site

Structure

Dunlop Aircraft Tyres is headquartered in the Erdington district of Birmingham, UK on what used to be part of the original Dunlop factory established in 1917.[3] It is situated next to the Fort Dunlop building, between the M6 and A38.

The company also has after-market service and retreading facilities in Jinjian, China and in North Carolina, US.[4]

Products

It can supply tyres for over 300 different types of aircraft in the civil and military markets. 80% of its products are exported.

See also

References

  1. ^ a b "Dunlop Aircraft Tyres website". Retrieved 31 October 2024.
  2. ^ "The Queen's Awards for Enterprise 2011" (PDF). The London Gazette (59764): 6. 20 April 2011.
  3. ^ "Fort Dunlop - Everything2.com". everything2.com. Retrieved 31 October 2024.
  4. ^ "Dunlop Aircraft Tyres: Introduction". Retrieved 18 December 2019.