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Facts section: North American plant capacities Who said production is dead? 3 plants open, with 3 more to come Y early tire capacity, not production, in North America totaled 307.9 million tires at 55 plants as of Jan. 1, 2014. Tat's up one-half percent compared to 2013, when capacity was 306.3 million tires. (Te total does not include race or aviation tires.) In the United States, annual capacity increased by 2.1 million tires to 247.4 million units. Canadian tire plant capacity is 27.2 million tires a year, a 2% decrease versus 2013. Mexican plant capacity remained at 33.3 million tires. Tree new plants helped with additional production in the U.S., although two of the plants, Michelin North America Inc.'s OTR plant in Anderson, S.C., and Bridgestone Americas Inc.'s OTR plant in Aiken County, S.C., produce a combined 60 large OTR tires a day. Te Michelin plant is part of a $750 million investment that includes expanding the company's existing earthmover manufacturing plant in Lexington, S.C. Bridgestone also is entering phase two of the expansion of its consumer tire plant in Aiken County. When completed in August 2015, the plant will be able to produce 37,700 units a day. Te combined cost of the expansion and building the OTR plant will reach $1.2 billion. Continental Tire the Americas LLC's new consumer tire plant in Sumter, S.C., began manufacturing consumer tires ahead of schedule. Te $500 million plant has the capacity to produce 4,500 passenger and light truck tires per day, or more than 1.6 40 Chart 13 NORTH AMERICAN TIRE PLANT CAPACITIES As of Jan. 1, 2014 (in thousands of units) Light Passen- truck Truck Others ger per per per Plant location/ Nonday: day: Year constructed union ISO1 QS2 per day: day: Bridgestone Americas Inc. Aiken County, S.C., 2013 x 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.05 La Vergne, Tenn., 1972 x x 0.0 0.0 6.2 0.0 Warren County, Tenn., 1990 x x 0.0 0.0 9.0 0.0 Bloomington, Ill., 1965 x x 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.29 Des Moines, Iowa, 1945 x x 0.0 0.0 0.0 4.57 x x x 30.5 3.5 0.0 0.0 Wilson City, N.C., 1974 3 Aiken County, S.C., 1999 x x x 20.5 9.2 0.0 0.0 Joliette, Quebec, 1966 x x 9.3 7.2 0.0 0.0 Monterrey, Mexico, 2007 x 8.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Cuernavaca, Mexico, 1980 x x 11.0 4.4 0.0 0.0 Total: 79.3 24.3 15.2 4.91 American Industrial Partners (formerly Carlisle Tire & Wheel Co.) Jackson, Tenn., 2009 x 0.0 0.0 0.0 26.0 Clinton, Tenn. (Dico), 1974 x x 0.0 0.0 0.0 15.0 Total: 0.0 0.0 0.0 41.0 Continental Tire the Americas LLC Sumter, S.C., 2013 x 3.9 0.6 0.0 0.0 Mount Vernon, Ill., 1973 x x x 28.0 3.0 6.0 0.0 Total: 31.9 3.6 6.0 0.0 Cooper Tire & Rubber Co. Findlay, Ohio, 1917 x 7.0 16.0 0.0 0.0 Texarkana, Ark., 1964 x 24.0 8.0 0.0 0.0 Tupelo, Miss., 1984/1960 x x 42.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Total: 73.0 24.0 0.0 0.0 Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. Buffalo, N.Y., 1923 x 4.0 2.5 2.3 5.2 Danville, Va., 1966 x x 0.0 0.0 11.0 2.0 Fayetteville, N.C., 1969 x x 30.5 10.5 0.0 0.0 Gadsden, Ala., 1928 x x 14.5 11.5 0.0 0.0 Lawton, Okla., 1978 x x x 63.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Topeka, Kan., 1945 x x 0.0 1.5 5.5 0.1 Medicine Hat, Alberta, 1960 x x 0.0 0.0 0.0 12.0 Napanee, Ontario, 1990 x x x 19.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Total: 131.0 26.0 18.8 19.3 GTY (General/Yokohama) Mount Vernon, Ill., 1988 x x x 0.0 0.0 3.9 0.0 Michelin North America Inc. Ardmore, Okla., 1969 x x x 40.5 3.5 0.0 0.0 Dothan, Ala., 1979 x x 1.0 4.0 0.0 0.0 Fort Wayne, Ind., 1961 21.0 9.5 0.0 0.0 Greenville, S.C., 1975 x x 28.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Greenville, S.C. (C3M), 1997 x x x 7.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Lexington, S.C., 1981 x x 19.0 5.0 0.0 0.0 Lexington, S.C., 1998 x x 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1 Spartanburg, S.C., 1978 x x 0.0 0.0 7.0 0.0 Starr, S.C., 2013 x 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.01 Total 0.05 6.2 9.0 0.29 4.57 34.0 29.7 16.5 8.0 15.4 123.71 26.0 15.0 41.0 4.5 37.0 41.5 23.0 32.0 42.0 97.0 14.0 13.0 41.0 26.0 63.0 7.1 12.0 19.0 195.1 3.9 44.0 5.0 30.5 28.0 7.0 24.0 0.1 7.0 0.01 MTD January 2014