Japanese Tire Maker Will Build Plant in Georgia

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Researched by Industrialinfo.com (Industrial Information Resources Incorporated, Houston, Texas). Osaka, Japan-based tire maker, Toyo Tire & Rubber Company Limited’s U.S. subsidiary, Toyo Automotive Parts USA (Franklin, Kentucky) (Plant 1057294), is planning to build a new manufacturing plant in White, Bartow County, Georgia (Plant 1062714). The company, after scouting several sites in Southern states, has settled on a viable site in White, but there have been some (unspecified) local objections to be overcome, possibly having to do with multiple ownership of the land in question. The company feels the obstacles are minor and will be resolved by the end of February. White is about 100 miles northwest of Atlanta, near Rome.

Kajima Construction Services (Atlanta, Georgia), who is doing the preliminary design for the new plant (PEC #11001843), has been helping Toyo Tires in the site search. The plant, a design/build project, will be about 500,000 square feet, an investment of $70 million.

Toyo Tire & Rubber Company Limited, a major global tire manufacturer, produces tires for passenger cars, trucks, and buses. The company was established in Osaka in 1945. Toyo Tire opened its first sales subsidiary, Toyo Tires USA in California in 1996. Another subsidiary, Toyo Automotive Parts USA, was established in 2002 in Kentucky, which produces anti-vibration rubber products and airbags for customers such as Toyota and Nissan.