Continental Tire's 250 Sumter employees stand behind the plant's first sellable tire. Continental Tire the Americas LLC’s (CTA) new manufacturing facility in Sumter, South Carolina, has received approval from central headquarters in ...
German autoparts maker Continental has inaugurated its new tire plant, ContiLifeCycle, in Hannover-Sticken, Germany. Claimed to be the first globally, the new plant integrates an advancede facility for retreading bus and truck tires with ...
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Yokohama Tire Manufacturing Mississippi LLC, a manufacturing subsidiary of Yokohama Tire Corp., has announced the hiring of its first employee, Human Resources Manager Melissa Orman. Orman will be responsible for hiring personnel at ...
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Bridgestone (Wuxi) Tire, a group company of Japanese tiremaker Bridgestone, is set to invest CNY852m ($139m) to expand production capacity at its passenger car radial tire plant in Wuxi, Jiangsu Province, China. This move by the tiremaker ...
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German autoparts maker Continental has commenced the production of its new tire making plant in Kaluga, Russia. The company has invested EUR240m in the plant to reach an annual capacity of four million tires in the first phase until ...
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In Clarksville, Tenn., $800 million will build you a consumer tire plant. Hankook Tire Co. Inc. will begin construction of its eighth tire production facility worldwide – and first in the United States -- in Clarksville in 2014. ...
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Brisa Bridgestone Sabanc Lastik Sanayi ve Ticaret, an affiliated company of Japanese tire maker Bridgestone, has signed an agreement with Aksaray Province Organized Industrial Zone over the purchase of a site for the construction of a new ...
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Hikomitsu Noji, president of Yokohama Rubber Co. Ltd., will be based in Japan as he also serves as CEO of all of Yokohama's North America operations. Now that Yokohama Tire Manufacturing Mississippi (YTMM), the new manufacturing ...
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Cooper Tire and Rubber Co. says it is assessing its options after an arbitrator blocked the sale of two of its plants to Apollo Tyres Ltd. The arbitrator upheld two grievances filed by the United Steel Workers (USW) in a ruling issued on ...
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Yokohama today broke ground at its new commercial truck tire manufacturing plant in Mississippi. The new plant will begin operations in October 2015, the company announced. The event was attended by local dignitaries and Yokohama ...
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Yokohama Rubber Co. Ltd. announced it will participate in InterAuto 2013, Russia's ninth international exhibition of automotive industry, to be held in Moscow August 28-31. The company plans to exhibit three core tire brands: the ...
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Cooper Tire & Rubber Co.'s passenger and truck tire plant in Rongcheng, China, remains unmanned following a work stoppage that begin in July. The stoppage coincided with the announcement that Apollo Tyres Ltd. had purchased the Findlay, ...
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US-based Kajima Associates/Architects & Engineers, PC (KA/AEPC) has secured a contract from Japanese firm Yokohama Tire (YTC) to design its new commercial tire manufacturing plant in West Point, Mississippi. Under the deal, the KA/AEPC ...
Japan based Yokohama Rubber has signed a contract for the construction of a commercial truck tire plant in West Point, Mississippi in the US. The company will initially invest $300m in the facility, while the potential plant expansions ...
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Continental Powertrain Division has started construction of new powertrain parts manufacturing plant in Kaluga, Russia. The company will invest about EUR20m in the land, buildings, plant and equipment for the facility, which will ...
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