Ohio Makes $68 Million Pitch to Keep BFNAT R&D

City, state and county officials made their pitch to Bridgestone/Firestone North American Tire to keep its R&D operations in Akron.

Published: March 27, 2008

According to reports, the governments offered a $68 million direct and indirect incentive package.

According to reports, the deal includes the county owning a new technical center building and leasing it back to BFNAT at “favorable rates.”

Reports said the Ohio deal includes a new center near the current facilities, with the city of Akron buying one of the existing technical center buildings from BFNAT as part of a redevelopment project.

BFNAT is looking to move its technical center operations out of the nearly century old former Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. headquarters building in Akron and into a new state-of-the-art facility in either Akron or closer to BFNAT’s headquarters in Nashville. (Tire Review/Akron)

Yokohama Rubber partners with Haupt Racing Team

Yokohama Rubber said it is aiming for victories at the Nürburgring 24-Hour Race and Nürburgring Langstrecken Serie (NLS) with Advan tires.

By Christian Hinton

Published: April 24, 2024

Yokohama Rubber has signed a partnership agreement with Mercedes-AMG Customer Racing’s Haupt Racing Team (HRT). As part of the Advan Challenge that seeks to maximize sales of Advan tires, Yokohama Rubber said it is aiming for victories at the Nürburgring 24-Hour Race and Nürburgring Langstrecken Serie (NLS) by supplying its Advan racing tires for the Mercedes-AMG GT3 being entered in those races by HRT.