How did the romantic master come up with such places. The secrets of symphonic magic. Drums code starts october 11th w. Summertime is Vacation Time here in germany most car owners still prefer to drive even to distant holiday destinations when it comes to road safety tires are of course of paramount importance more than 50000000. 00 are sold each year in germany alone its a multibillion dollar business but where do these tires come from and under what
conditions are they produced. The tires of my family car well past their prime theyre getting older and are a bit brittle and they need to replace them ahead of a Family Vacation has got me thinking about the origin and sustainability of tires on the market right. Now a Family Run Business is one of the biggest independent dealers in western germany. Id like to buy a set of new summer tires and want some advice the store stocks the Standard Brands theyre all good quality but i have a different question on my mind. I just can i tell where
her company also supplies thai who are young robert among others and mainly processes liquid latex. the workers here are thai not cambodian we ask whether they get the minimum wage of $9000.00 baht around $260.00 euros. iron $5000.00 baht a month but when the price of rubber goes up again i might earn $20000.00. they carry on hoping for better times. the minimum wage is $9000.00. these people commit $1000.00 of them so now because you didn t pay like ideally you d be off the. beach like say 5050 what they bought me think because they ll like it because they ll like 2000 to get one of them to get 1000 at all and. so the employees are not employee used but get a share of the profits and it s that easy to undercut thailand scanty minimum wage
for that we now definitely have to look to the future. like continental the other market leaders bridgestone and michelin also don t want to give us an interview we try our luck in hand on air frankfurt where the world s 3rd biggest tire manufacturers based goodyear but we have no success here goodyear s simply responds with their written statement goodyear doesn t buy natural rubber from cambodia we source less than 5 percent of our global requirements for natural rubber from thailand. he goes on we re committed. the responsible sourcing of raw materials including natural rubber. and the statement continues. we offer a retread tires for commercial vehicles and aircraft reducing the use of natural rubber. but why does goodyear retread the tires of commercial vehicles and planes
to rubber and. the plantation begins right behind his house for the 1st time we see how rubber is harvested. the rubber latex strips out of an incision in the bark of a tree it can be harvested in a liquid state or through the addition of vinegar as they re doing here to get the rubber to solidifying and harvested in solid pieces. boss a product employs more than 50 workers on his plantation later we will discover what kind of conditions they live in. boston ponte has just planted new rubber trees despite a glut on the market that s driven a steady drop in the price per kilo. so we used to earn good money with our rubber. the happy department. when matt but
conditions. every year the rubber harvest in cambodia grows by 6 to 7 percent and to this growth is not in sight. on the edge of the plantation the next field is being burned off to clear the vegetation and make space for even more rubber trees for even more rubber for car tires. we ve seen enough and fly back to germany to confront the tire industry with our findings. we try our luck again at continental headquarters in hanover. in 2018 the automotive supplier had a turnover of 44400000000 euros. no one here wants to be interviewed but they do at least give a written reply to some of our questions. continental uses natural commodities