Bridgestone has announced that it will invest $164m over a period of five years to expand its passenger tire manufacturing plant in Wilson, North Carolina. The company wants to improve the plant's global competitive position by installing ...
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Bridgestone Corp. announced that its subsidiary in China, Bridgestone (Shenyang) Tire Co. Ltd. (Shenyang Plant), has relocated its truck and bus radial tire plant to a new site in Shenyang City Liaoning Province, China. The company marked ...
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The Open Country A/T II, produced at Toyo's White, Ga., plant, is its first U.S. OE fitment on Ford F-250/F-350 trucks. Toyo Tire & Rubber Co. Ltd. announced that the company's Open Country A/T II (OPAT II) SUV tire, size LT275/65R20 ...
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Singapore-based tire manufacturer Giti Tire has announced plans to build a new tire manufacturing plant in Chester County, South Carolina, US with an investment of $560m The new facility is expected to address the growing demand for tires ...
Groupe Michelin has begun steps to close its truck tire plant in Budapest, Hungary. According to Michelin, the closing is necessary "in response to the adverse trends and aggressive competition in the European truck tire market, which ...
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Continental Tire the Americas (CTA) has inaugurated its new tire manufacturing plant in Sumter, South Carolina. Tires produced at the new plant will enable the company to meet the demand for its Continental and General brand tires from ...
Bridgestone Americas Inc. announced that its Wilson, N.C. passenger and light truck tire manufacturing plant has achieved Underwriters Laboratories’ (UL) landfill waste diversion claim validation for Zero Waste to Landfill, the ...
Bridgestone do Brasil Industria e Comercio, a subsidiary of Japanese automotive parts maker Bridgestone, is set to invest $63m to expand its tire manufacturing plant in Cama ari, Bahia, Brazil. The increased production at this plant is ...
Toyo Tire North America Manufacturing (TNA) has broken ground on a project to expand its 2,000,000ft2 tire manufacturing plant in White, Georgia. The project will add 700,000ft2 to the plant. It will also expand the warehouse section of ...
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The Toyo Georgia plant Phase IV groundbreaking ceremony took place Dec 6, 2013. (Left-to-right): James Jarrett, chairman, Bartow/Cartersville Joint Development Authority; Steve Taylor, Bartow County Commissioner; Honorable Nathan Deal, ...
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South Korean tire manufacturer Hankook Tire is set to establish a new $800m tire manufacturing plant in Clarksville, Tennessee, US. This new plant marks the eighth for the company globally and its first in the US. The company will ...
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German autoparts maker Continental is set to invest EUR40m at its tire manufacturing plant in Korbach, Hesse, Germany by 2018. This new investment will be used for the production of 19- to 22-inch tires for passenger trucks and light ...
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The 1 million square-foot Yokohama Tire Manufacturing Mississippi plant in West Point, Miss., will sit on a 570-acre site, employ 500 and include production, warehousing? and operations facilities. Yokohama Tire Manufacturing Mississippi ...
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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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Yokohama Tire Manufacturing Mississippi (YTMM) has commenced construction of its new $300m commercial truck tire manufacturing plant in West Point, Mississippi. Covering 1millionft2 of land, the new tire-making plant is expected to open ...
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