http://www.tyrepress.com/2017/02/technotrac-hankook-tire-opens-own-winter-test-facility-in-finland/
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...[Hankook's] Technotrac is located in Ivalo, Finland, some 150 miles north of the Arctic Circle and next to Test World’s Mellatracks site. Hankook Tire commissioned Test World Oy to build the facility in late 2015, and work got under way as soon as the ground thawed in the warmer months. In addition to workshop facilities that can handle tyres for rim diameters up to 24 inches, a large cold-storage tyre warehouse, offices and meeting rooms, the Technotrac site contains three flat tracks for braking, traction and lateral stability testing on snow and ice, as well as two snow handling tracks for subjective tyre evaluation.
...According to Klaus Krause, head of Hankook Tire’s ETC (Europe Technical Center) and now coordinator of test activities at Technotrac Ivalo, the tyre maker looked at sites in Finland, Sweden and Norway before ultimately selecting Ivalo. The stable and prolonged winter conditions there – Ivalo receives an average of 138 days of snow a year – best suited its requirements. The tracks will be used from mid-November through to the end of March or start of April. Three mechanics from Test World are currently assigned to work with Hankook at the site, and at least two objective and at least two subjective test drivers will be based at the Technotrac and conduct evaluations there. “We need to be precise, as our developers base their work upon this data,” notes Krause...
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...[Hankook's] Technotrac is located in Ivalo, Finland, some 150 miles north of the Arctic Circle and next to Test World’s Mellatracks site. Hankook Tire commissioned Test World Oy to build the facility in late 2015, and work got under way as soon as the ground thawed in the warmer months. In addition to workshop facilities that can handle tyres for rim diameters up to 24 inches, a large cold-storage tyre warehouse, offices and meeting rooms, the Technotrac site contains three flat tracks for braking, traction and lateral stability testing on snow and ice, as well as two snow handling tracks for subjective tyre evaluation.
...According to Klaus Krause, head of Hankook Tire’s ETC (Europe Technical Center) and now coordinator of test activities at Technotrac Ivalo, the tyre maker looked at sites in Finland, Sweden and Norway before ultimately selecting Ivalo. The stable and prolonged winter conditions there – Ivalo receives an average of 138 days of snow a year – best suited its requirements. The tracks will be used from mid-November through to the end of March or start of April. Three mechanics from Test World are currently assigned to work with Hankook at the site, and at least two objective and at least two subjective test drivers will be based at the Technotrac and conduct evaluations there. “We need to be precise, as our developers base their work upon this data,” notes Krause...