ContiTech’s St. Marys, Ohio, engineered products plant celebrated its 75th anniversary on Aug. 22.
“We are proud to share in this diamond jubilee celebration of a highly versatile and productive facility,” said Jim Hill, ContiTech CEO for the NAFTA Region. “This plant has made literally millions of rubber parts for many markets and industries, and we are confident that it will continue that process into the future.”
Known originally as St. Marys Manufacturing Co, the 50,000-square-foot plant began production as a subsidiary of Goodyear on Jan. 2, 1940 with 66 employees. By 1968, it became the world’s largest molded and extruded rubber product producer.
In 2007, Goodyear Engineered Products group was acquired by the Carlyle Group/Veyance Technologies, and in January 2015, Veyance, and all of its manufacturing facilities – including St. Mary – was acquired by Continental AG’s ContiTech. division
Today, the plant employs 400 workers under 798,000 square feet or 18.5 acres of roof. The facility manufactures rubber track products for the agriculture industry and for other applications in addition to mixing rubber for its own operations as well as the Marysville, Ohio conveyor belt plant and other plants within the ContiTech organization.
