Publish Date: September 2026
Updated Tariff & Recession Risk Analysis and Forecasts
The 2026 Tire Manufacturing Market Report covers the $20.2 billion industry which produces complex engineered components balancing safety, performance, durability, and efficiency requirements for diverse vehicle applications. Competitive structure features global tire corporations with integrated research and production capabilities alongside specialized manufacturers focused on particular market segments. Market demands increasingly emphasize performance characteristics including fuel efficiency, traction, durability, noise reduction, and increasingly sustainable attributes. Manufacturers face challenges balancing complex manufacturing technologies, material engineering, quality control parameters, and tariff considerations affecting both raw material imports and international market access. Successful companies establish advantages through advanced construction technologies enhancing performance, specialized compounds addressing specific operating conditions, comprehensive testing validating specifications, and increasingly sustainable practices incorporating renewable materials and improved recyclability in a sector where both performance capabilities and increasingly environmental credentials determine competitive positioning across diverse tire categories.
Tire Manufacturing Industry Description
Tire Manufacturing produces pneumatic rubber tires for passenger vehicles, trucks, aircraft, off-road, and industrial applications. Companies build complex structures combining rubber compounds, textile and steel reinforcements, and other components through sophisticated assembly and vulcanization processes. These businesses serve vehicle manufacturers and replacement markets with products engineered for specific performance characteristics including traction, handling, durability, and fuel efficiency. The industry represents a technology-intensive segment requiring significant R&D and capital investment, continuously advancing tire design, materials, and manufacturing processes to enhance safety, performance, and environmental characteristics through innovations in rubber compounds, tread designs, and reinforcement systems.
NAICS Code: 326211
Number of Companies: 74
Number of Plants / Facilities: 108
Total Employees: 41,584
Market Size: $20.2 billion
TARIFF IMPACT (Summer 2025 – Download Report for Updated Analysis)
This report has in-depth analysis on the recent US tariff changes on material costs, quantifying import dependencies, tariff exposure rates, and key source countries for the tire manufacturing sector.
Estimated Tariff Cost: $1.2 billion
Relative Tariff Impact: VERY HIGH
Tire Manufacturing Report Format
The 2026 U.S. Tire Manufacturing Market Report is 63 pages of deep insights into the trends, dynamics, and forecasts shaping the industry. Professionals leverage this market report to develop a deep understanding of the market for business strategy, planning, forecasting, benchmarking, industry analysis, valuations, identifying organizational inefficiencies, financial analysis, and more.
This report covers more than 100 statistical data sets with historical trend data from 2017 to 2025, and 2026 and 2030 forecasts. The report includes sales & expense trends, detailed breakdown on 26 expenses, extensive financial analysis, forecasts, inventory statistics, composition of balance sheets, segmentation by business size and structure, competitive intensity analysis, material costs analysis, profit margin analysis, state metrics analysis, plant utilization, employee role analysis, inflation trend benchmarks, employee pay analysis, in-depth productivity analysis, and numerous other data sets.
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Report Table of Contents
Review the table of contents to understand the comprehensive insights in the report and why thousands of professionals and executives count on Kentley Insights for their industry research.
The data source for the report is extensive annual expense, revenue, wage, operational, and economic surveys administered by federal and private institutions and filled out by a majority of companies in the tire manufacturing industry. The forecasts in the report are modeled by our research analysts using the latest economic forecasts, industry analysis, and historical trends.
1-2 – Market Report Overview & Contents
3 – Market Overview
– Data Sources, Industry Definition & Market Commentary
4 – Market Synopsis – Revenue & Growth
5 – Market Synopsis – Costs & Profitability
SECTION ONE
REVENUE & GROWTH ANALYSIS
7 – Market Size Details
– Industry Revenues, Companies & Facilities
– Trend Analysis 2017-2025
– 2026 & 2030 Forecasts
8 – Growth Benchmarks
– Sales per Company & Plant
– Trend Analysis 2017-2025
– 2026 & 2030 Forecasts
9 – Product Lines Revenue
– Percentage of Revenue from Product Lines
10 – BCG Matrix – Net Income vs. Revenue Growth
– Subsectors vs. Industry
11 – Total Sales by Month & Year
– 2021-2025 Sales per Month
12 – Inventory Value by Month & Year
– Inventory Value per Month for 2021-2025
13 – Months of Inventory
– Months of Inventory per Month for 2021-2025
14 – Sector Revenue by Segments
– Concentration Segments by Top Companies
– Business Size Segments
– Business Structure Segments
15 – Market Size by State
16 – Market Size as a % of State GDP
17 – Sales as a % of State Manufacturing
18 – Market Segmentation by Business Size
19 – Market Segmentation by Business Size
– Business Size Segments – 1-4, 5-9, 10-20, 21-50, 51-100, 101-250, & 250+ employees
– Companies, Facilities, Sales, Employees & Payroll
20 – Segmentation by Concentration (Top 50 Companies)
– Concentration Segments – Top 4, 5-8, 9-20, & 21-50 companies
– Companies, Facilities, Sales, Employees & Payroll
21 – Market Share of Top 50 Companies
22 – Subsector Market Share of Top 50 Companies
23 – Segmentation by Business Structure
– Business Structure Segments – C-Corporations, S-Corporations, Partnerships, & Sole Proprietorships
– Companies, Facilities, Sales, Employees & Payroll
24 – Revenue per Company by State
– Revenue per Company
25 – Revenue per Company by Segments
26 – Revenue per Facility by State
27 – Revenue per Facility by Segment
– Business Size, Concentration, & Structure
28 – Subsector Growth
– Sales and 5-Year Growth
29 – Subsector Statistics
– Sales per Company & Facility, and 5-Year Growth
30 – Consolidation Analysis
– 5-Year Growth of Companies & Locations
31 – Employment Consolidation Analysis
– 5-Year Growth of Employee Statistics
32 – Subsector Consolidation Analysis
– Number of Companies & Facilities
– 5-Year Growth
33 – Subsector Consolidation Analysis
– Facilities per Company
– Employees per Company
– 5-Year Growth
SECTION TWO
COST, CAPITAL & PROFIT BENCHMARKS
35 – Profitability & Financial Ratio Analysis
– Percent of Companies that are Profitable
– Average Net Income as a Percent of Revenue
– 10 of the Top Financial Ratios
– Assets and Liabilities indexed to industry revenue at 100
– Current & Non-Current Assets: 14 Categories
– Short-term, Long-term Liabilities, & Net Worth: 13 Categories
37 – OPEX
– Industry OPEX
– Revenue vs. OPEX Growth
– OPEX as a Percent of Revenue
– Trend Analysis 2017-2025
– 2026 & 2030 Forecasts
38 – OPEX by Company & Plant
– OPEX per Company & Facility
– Revenue vs. Expenses Growth per Plant
– Trend Analysis & Forecasts
Page 39 – OPEX Detail
– Employee Expenses: payroll, insurance, pension, defined contribution plans, fringe benefits, temps
– Cost of Materials: materials, parts, containers, packaging, cost of resale, electricity and fuels, contract work
– Buildings and Equipment: capex for equipment, rental or lease for equipment, capex for buildings and structures, rental or leases, repair and maintenance
– Other Operating Expenses: professional and technical services, IT software and hardware, data processing and communications, advertising, refuse removal, taxes and license fees, other
-Inventory Breakdown: finished goods, work-in-progress, materials and supplies
40 – Production Material Costs & Tariff Analysis
– Top Production Material Costs Breakdown
– Industry & Material Tariff Analysis – % of costs, import %, tariff costs, source countries
41 – Producer Pricing Index
– Annual PPI – Indexed to 2006
– Trend Analysis & Forecasts
– Monthly PPI Figures for the Past 4 Years
42 – Plant Utilization & Hours
– Plant Utilization Rate
– Plant Operational Hours per Week
– 2022-2025 Historical Figures by Quarter
43 – Reasons for Non-Full Production
– 7 Categories Quarterly Survey Results for Past 2 Years
44 – Productivity & Employment
– Revenue per Employee
– Total Employees
– Employees per Company
– Trend Analysis & Forecasts
45 – Employee Productivity by Segments
– Business Size, Concentration, & Structure
46 – Employee Productivity by State
47 –Subsector Sales & Payroll per Employee
– Absolute & 5-Year Growth
48 – Payroll Analysis
– Payroll per Employee, Company & Plant
– Trend Analysis & Forecasts
49 – Payroll per Company by Segments
50 – Payroll per Plant by Segments
51 – Payroll per Employee by Segments
52 – Payroll per Employee by State
53 – Organizational Composition
– % of Employees for 27 Job Categories
– Management & Finance
– Sales & Marketing
– Technology, Engineering, Science
– Service, Support & Training
– Operations
54 – Job Categorization Pay Ranges
– Management & Finance
– Sales, Service & Marketing
– Operations
– Pay Bands – Bottom 10% & 25%, Mean, Top 25% & 10%
55 – Top 20 Jobs Breakdown
56 – Top 20 Jobs Pay
57 – Employees per Company by Segments
58 – Employees per Plant by Segments
59 – Facilities per Company by Segments
60 – Total Employment by State
61 – Population to Every Employee by State
62 – Employees per Facility by State
63 – Overview of Kentley Insights
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Product Lines, Materials, and Jobs Covered in Report
PRODUCT LINES
Passenger car pneumatic tires (casings)
Truck and bus (including off-the-highway) pneumatic tires
Tread rubber, tire sundries, and repair materials
Tractor and implement (farm and industrial) pneumatic tires
Other pneumatic tires and casing including motor bike, motorcycle, moped, bicycle, aircraft, and mobile home
Tire manufacturing (except retreading), nsk, total
Solid and semipneumatic tires
Industrial and utility pneumatic tires (including garden)
Inner tubes
MATERIAL COST CATEGORIES
Natural rubber
Synthetic rubber
All basic organic and inorganic chemicals, excluding petrochemicals
Cost of all other materials and components, parts, containers, and supplies consumed
Materials, ingredients, containers, and supplies, nsk
Tire cord and tire fabric
Steel wire and wire products
Fabricated rubber products, excluding tires, hose, belting, and gaskets
INDUSTRY JOBS ANALYZED
Miscellaneous Production Workers
Extruding, Forming, Pressing, and Compacting Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders
Miscellaneous Assemblers and Fabricators
Inspectors, Testers, Sorters, Samplers, and Weighers
First-Line Supervisors of Production and Operating Workers
Industrial Machinery Installation, Repair, and Maintenance Workers
Cutting Workers
Laborers and Material Movers, Hand
Crushing, Grinding, Polishing, Mixing, and Blending Workers
Machine Tool Cutting Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic
Molders and Molding Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic
Maintenance and Repair Workers, General
Sales Representatives, Wholesale and Manufacturing
Shipping, Receiving, and Traffic Clerks
Industrial Engineers, Including Health and Safety
General and Operations Managers
Forming Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic
Industrial Production Managers
Machinists
Industrial Truck and Tractor Operators
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