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Monday, February 06, 2012
Rockwell becomes Michelin preferred supplier
CLERMONT-FERRAND, France (Feb. 6, 2012)– Michelin has signed a four-year agreement making Rockwell Automation Inc. its preferred partner for industrial automation and controls covering all of the tire makers global factories.
China trade group forecasts 6% growth in tire production
BEIJING (Feb. 6, 2012)—China Rubber Industries Association is forecasting China’s tire industry will make 483 million tires this year, and increase of about 6 percent from 2011.
Editorial: Deciding factors in job creation go beyond tax breaks
One proposal offered by President Obama in his Jan. 24 address calls for rewarding U.S. manufacturers that keep jobs in this country, and punishing those that close American factories and/or move jobs overseas. How would that play in the rubber industry?
Tire distributor gets 40 months in prison
OXFORD, Miss. (Feb. 6, 2012)—The Northern Mississippi federal district court has sentenced a Maryland tire distributor to 40 months in prison for defrauding one of his biggest customers.
Workers ratify contract at Cooper Texarkana site
TEXARKANA, Ark.—By a margin of nearly eight to one, workers at Cooper Tire & Rubber Co.’s Texarkana plant have ratified a four-year labor contract offering wage increases and continued retirement, medical and life insurance benefits.
Wisconsin considers banning lead wheel weights
MADISON, Wis. (Feb. 3, 2012)—Wisconsin will become the seventh state to mandate a statewide ban on lead wheel weights if a bill currently before the Wisconsin legislature becomes law, according to a top executive for a wheel weight manufacturing firm.
Yokohama raising consumer tire prices
FULLERTON, Calif. (Feb. 3, 2012)—Yokohama Tire Corp. said it will hike aftermarket consumer tire prices sold in the U.S. by as much as 8 percent on March 1.
Bridgestone Americas creates mining tire division
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (Feb. 3, 2012)—Bridgestone Americas Inc. has created a mining tire business unit and reorganized its Commercial Solutions Group, which oversees off-the-road, farm and truck tires and retreading.
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A Yokohama tire is mounted on a KKW Trucking Inc. commercial truck. Rick Phillips, director of Yokohama’s commercial sales, said because demand has outweighed supply, “we have literally sold everything that we are able to build.”
Challenges follow Yokohama into 2012
A tumultuous, but profitable, year has ended for most tire makers, but the key woes of 2011 probably will remain for at least the first half of 2012.
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Steve Shelton, vice president of product development for Bridgestone Americas Tire Operations, shows off the exterior of the firm’s soon-to-open technical center in Akron. / RPN photo by Bruce Meyer
Bridgestone prepares to move into new Akron technical center
AKRON—Bridgestone Americas Inc. is ushering in the new year by putting the finishing touches on its new technical center, getting ready for staff to start moving to the facility in February. |
Workers from the Cooper tire plant in Findlay, Ohio, and their supporters hold up signs to passersby in December while protesting Cooper’s decision to stage a lockout after USW Local 207L rejected a proposed contract.
New year, same old struggle at Cooper plant
FINDLAY, Ohio—The lockout at Cooper Tire & Rubber Co.’s Findlay tire plant continued into the new year, with contract negotiations between the company and United Steelworkers Local 207L remaining at a standstill. |
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