New Nokian Russia Plant Readied for Production
May 22, 2012
Nokian Tyres PLC said that production at its new plant in Russia will begin in June, even as it adjusts work schedules at its home plant in Finland.
The new plant in Russia, located adjacent to Nokian's older plant there, will fire up ...
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Apollo Opens New Component Plant in S.A.
May 22, 2012
Apollo Tyres said the new tire component preparation unit at its tire manufacturing facility in South Africa will remove capacity bottlenecks and further improve quality and productivity.
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Italy Earthquake Cripples Titan Wheel Plant
May 22, 2012
The 6.0 earthquake that killed at least six people in north-central Italy over the weekend also forced the shutdown of Titan International's wheel facility in Finale Emilia, Italy.
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New Nexen Plant On-Stream, Key to Growth Plans
May 22, 2012
Nexen Tire Corp. has started initial production at its new passenger and light truck/SUV tire plant in Changnyeong, South Korea, which has been under construction since June 2010.
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Bridgestone Changes Truck Tire Manufacturing Roles
May 10, 2012
Bridgestone Americas has appointed Mitch Burke to the position of plant manager at the company's Warren County, Tenn. truck and bus tire manufacturing facility.
Burke began his career with Bridgestone in 1989 as junior engineer at the ...
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Goodyear Promotes Fayetteville Plant Manager
May 9, 2012
Billy Taylor, manager of Goodyear's Fayetteville, N.C., plant, was promoted to director of commercial tire manufacturing for the company's North American Tire division.
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Bridgestone Starts Work to Expand Bloomington OTR Plant
May 1, 2012
Work has started on the planned $19.5 million expansion of Bridgestone Americas' OTR plant in Bloomington, Ill., slated for completion in mid-2013.
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China Focusing on Eco Tires, Set Production Goals
April 30, 2012
Fan Rende, chairman of the China Rubber Industry Association, shares that China has launched a plan to develop "green" tires.
The plan calls for half of China's tiremakers to be capable of manufacturing fuel-efficient tires by...
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Reports: Alliance Tire Plans New Plant, Major Expansion
April 30, 2012
News reports out of Chennai, India, say Alliance Tire Group is planning a new OTR tire plant in Gurarat, India, as well as a capacity boost at its existing plant in Tamil Nadu, India.
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Mitas Cuts Ribbon, Opens New Ag Plant
April 27, 2012
Mitas officially opened its new Charles City, Iowa, radial agricultural tire plant, which will produce all common ag tire sizes and eventually produce sizes of up to 54 inches in wheel diameter.
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New Indonesia JV Plant to Produce 25% of Pirelli's Motorcycle Tires
April 25, 2012
Last November, Pirelli signed a memorandum of understanding with Indonesian automotive component manufacturer PT Astra Otoparts Tbk regarding a joint venture factory. Now the tiremaker reports it has signed an agreement with Astra to build a new fact...
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New Company Launches Retread System, Plant
April 20, 2012
Ironhead Rubber Technologies has opened its first truck tire retread plant, located in Mississauga, Ont.
According to Marcel Leclair, president of Ironhead, the goal from the start was to "build a retreading system capable of chall...
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Five Tiremakers Get RMA Safety Awards
April 19, 2012
Bridgestone, Michelin, Pirelli, Cooper and Goodyear plants in the U.S. all were recognized for improvements in worker health and safety by the RMA.
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Pirelli's Rome, Ga., Plant Earns RMA Safety Award
April 18, 2012
The Rubber Manufacturers Association recognized Pirelli's Rome, Ga., manufacturing facility with an "excellence" category award for achieving an incidence rate 75% better than the average achieved by plants that provided data to RMA.
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Accuride Expansion Adds Even More Manufacturing in S.C.
April 11, 2012
Accuride Corp. announced plans to expand aluminum wheel production capacity at its Camden, S.C., plant. The company will invest at least $8.7 million to add two machine lines as part of the expansion, which will generate at least 25 new jobs.
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Three Yokohama Plants Gain OSHMS Certification
April 11, 2012
Three of Yokohama Rubber Co.'s plants in Japan and China obtained Japan Industrial Safety and Health Association (JISHA) Standards Certification for Occupational Health and Safety Management System (OSHMS) in January. Earning the certification were t...
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More on Michelin: New OTR Plant Timetable 'Aggressive'
April 11, 2012
The tiremaker has an "aggressive timeframe" for its new radial OTR tire plant in S.C., with groundbreaking slated in the next week and initial tire production taking place by the end of 2013.
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Michelin Building New OTR Plant, Expanding Another in S.C.
April 10, 2012
Michelin North America announced it will construct an all-new radial OTR tire plant in Anderson County, S.C., and expand its existing OTR plant in nearby Lexington, S.C.
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Dunlop India Says It Plans to Re-Open Plant
April 5, 2012
Even the most optimistic reader may raise an eyebrow at Dunlop India's claim of being near to reopening its Sahaganj factory within the coming week.
This is, after all, the plant inspected by West Bengal's labor minister Purnendu Bose ...
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Work Starts on New Thailand S-SBR Plant
April 4, 2012
On March 19, Japan's JSR Corp. and its joint-venture partner Bangkok Synthetics Co. held a groundbreaking ceremony for the solution polymerization styrene-sutadiene rubber (S-SBR) plant to be constructed by their company, JSR BST Elastomer Co.
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