Mumbai, Oct. 16 -- Goodyear Tire will expand its tyre testing operations in San Angelo, Texas to conduct performance evaluation in segments as diverse as sports cars to earthmover trucks tyres.

Currently the company is celebrating its 75th year of tyre testing operations in San Angelo, Texas.

Goodyear has added a second vehicle dynamics area - a 324,000 square foot paved pad - and is currently building an additional evaluation facility for off-the-road products that will include state-of-the-art equipment for testing the industry's largest earthmover tyres.

The company established its largest tire evaluation center in 1944 in San Angelo and built its first test surface there in 1957. The San Angelo Proving Grounds facility, with an ass...