SMPT is one of the customers of SEK which is a tire manufacturer from France which is officially named SCA Compagnie Générale des Établissements Michelin. This company is the second largest tire manufacturer in the world after Bridgestone. The company developed with quality tire products labeled Michelin, BFGoodrich, Kleber, Tigar, Riken, Cormorant and Uniroyal. Michelin was first developed by two brothers named Édouard and André Michelin since May 28, 1888. At that time, they began producing their own version of the pneumatic bank that was first used by Charles Terront at the long-distance Paris-Brest-Paris bicycle race event in the year 1891.

Michelin continues to create various innovations for tire development in general. One of them with the release of radial tires which later became known as "X" tires since 1946 and run-flat tires. Since 1988, Michelin has then acquired a tire division under the auspices of American B.F. Goodrich Company which had been founded in 1870 included Norwood, an operational factory supplying tires to the U.S. Space Shuttle Program. Two years later, Michelin then re-acquired Uniroyal, Inc. which is one of the American rubber companies which was founded in 1892. Furthermore, Uniroyal Australia is included in Uniroyal, Inc. was taken over by Bridgestone in 1980. In addition, Michelin also holds a 90% stake in Taurus Tire which operates in Hungary and Kormoran which is a Polish brand.

On September 1, 2008, Michelin had succeeded in becoming the largest tire producer in the world after years of only being able to place second behind Bridgestone. Michelin has produced tires to France, Spain, Germany, the United States, Britain, Canada, Brazil, Thailand, Japan, Italy and several other countries in the world including Indonesia. Until now, Michelin has produced various variants of tire products that are specially designed with high quality supported by experts in their fields for cars, SUVs, light trucks, motorcycles, buses and bulldozers. In addition, Michelin tires also participated in various world class championships such as MotoGP, Formula One, and 24 Hours of Le Mans.