Yokohama plant opening boosts capacity, supports YX2026 strategy, and expands high-value tire production in China.

Bridgestone Americas Inc. broke ground Aug. 16 on a $550-million project at its truck and bus radial tire plant in Warren County, Tennessee. The 850,000-square-foot plant expansion will increase ...

Heartland Energy and Recycling's proposal to build a tire-burning power plant in Preston has sharply divided the community of 1,400. Critics say a tire-burning plant consuming 10 million tires a year ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. ― Bridgestone Americas Inc. recently celebrated 50 years of operation at its passenger and light truck tire plant in Wilson, one of only two such factories it operates in the U.S. The ...

South Carolina is the heart of U.S. tire manufacturing. Has been for more than a decade. With 12 tire plants, the state boasts more than any other and leads the nation in tire production with a daily ...

Bridgestone Americas will invest approximately $190 million to renovate and expand its tire manufacturing plant located in Belén de Heredia, Costa Rica. The investment is on top of more than $60 ...

The demand for tires for SUVs is driving a big investment in the Sumitomo Rubber Industries plant in the Town of Tonawanda. The company said it plans to invest $87 million in its tire plant, as it ...

HIRATSUKA, Japan—Yokohama Rubber Co. Ltd. plans to relocate a passenger car tire plant in Hangzhou, China, operated by a local subsidiary, to a new plant in the same city. The $227 million plant ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Tire manufacturer Bridgestone Americas is closing its LaVergne, Tennessee, truck and bus radial tire plant and laying off 700 workers there, the company announced in a news release.

Oct 6 (Reuters) - Germany's Continental AG plans to build a plant in South Carolina capable of making 5 million tires a year by 2017 and 8 million tires by 2021, its Americas arm said on Thursday. To ...