Tyre production in Russia tripled in January, local sources said today. The news comes on the back of statistics that show Russian vehicle production soared 91.9% year on year to 44,257 units in the month.

Russian news agency Prime-Tass, quoting a report by the Federal State Statistics Service, said January tyre production reached 1.384m.

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Truck tyre output rose tenfold to 341,000 while output of agricultural vehicle tyres was up sixfold to 72,900 tyres.

The jump in Russian vehicle output was month was attributed to a significant increase in car output which more than doubled to 41,806 units from 18,177 units in January 2009. Of that total, foreign brand car output in Russia rose 46.9% to 26,340 units while domestic car output rose to 15,466 units from just 280 a year ago.

Russia’s vehicle output in 2009 fell 59.7% to 722,102 units.

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