The Russian plant of company Bridgestone will be opened in Ulyanovsk region in the second half of 2016. As it was specified in the Corporation of development of the region, at present the company is built and there is installation of equipment, carried out commissioning. Investment agreement about the creation of production of tires in the Ulyanovsk region was signed in 2013.

Bridgestone together with Mitsubishi Corporation will invest in the project RUB 12.5 billion. The production capacity of the plant, which was built in the industrial zone Trans-Volga, is 2 million tires per year. In the future the production capacity of the enterprise may be doubled.