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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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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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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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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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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