Southern Indiana Tire Moves Forward with Plant Relocation

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Researched by Industrialinfo.com (Industrial Information Resources, Inc.; Houston, Texas). Southern Indiana Tire (Princeton, Indiana) began construction in December of 2001 on a new $15 million, grassroot 15,000-sqft tire retread manufacturing plant in Princeton, Indiana. The company plans to relocate from Owensboro, Kentucky to the new Princeton, Indiana plant by March of 2002. Southern Indiana Tire chose Bandag Incorporated (Muscatine, Iowa) to provide engineering and procurement services and Hinderliter Construction (Evansville, Indiana) construction management services for the new plant.

Once completed this spring, the plant will produce 132 retread tires per day and is expected to create 15 new jobs. Southern Indiana Tire began operations in 1971 and has multi-brand dealers at twenty locations in four Mid-West states. The company uses Bandag Tire Casing Analysis to inspect tires electronically and ultrasonically to insure that their products are safe and reliable.