Continental AG announced plans to significantly expand its truck and bus tire production facilities in Otrokovice, Czech Republic. This five-year expansion program will ultimately double the truck and bus tire production capacity at that ...
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Yokohama Rubber Co. Ltd. has announced a number of senior management changes that will go into effect Jan. 1, 2014. Eight senior managers -- four directors and four corporate offiicers -- have had their responsibilities changed. They are ...
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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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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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Bridgestone Tire Manufacturing Vietnam, a subsidiary of Japanese tiremaker Bridgestone, is set to invest JPY41.6bn ($422.8m) in its new passenger car radial tires(PSR) plant in Hai Phong City, Vietnam. This move of the company is aimed at ...
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Hankook Tire recently announced plans for its 8th global manufacturing plant, which will be located in Clarksville, Tennessee. Hankook will invest over $829 million CAD for the new state-of-the-art plant, its first the United States. The ...
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Vee Rubber has named has named Triton Imports its exclusive U.K. distributor for its Vee Tire Co.-branded BMX tires. Triton also will offer Vee's fat bike tires and tubes. "It's great to be representing one of the biggest names in tires ...
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Hankook Tire announced today plans to open its 8th global manufacturing plant in Clarksville, Tennessee — the first U.S. plant for tire manufacturer. Hankook is investing over $829 million into the new plant, which the company said ...
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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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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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Japanese tiremaker Bridgestone has unveiled plans to ramp up production at its facility Pune, Maharashtra, India, by 2015-end, with an investment of INR26bn ($421.2m). Bridgestone India operations managing director Tomio Fukuzumi was ...
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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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Hankook Tire Co. Ltd. says it has an image to uphold, and is using original equipment fitments to help do just that. Two OE fitments in the last four months are particularly telling: The company will supply tires to Daimler AG for the new ...
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