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Plant location/ Year constructed Tuscaloosa, Ala., 1945 Bridgewater, Nova Scotia, Canada, 1973 New Glasgow, Nova Scotia, 1971 Waterville, Nova Scotia, 1982 Queretaro, Mexico Total: Nonunion ISO1 QS2 x x x x x x Passenger per day: 23.0 Light truck per day: 7.0 11.0 3.0 x x Truck Others per per day: day: 0.0 0.0 7.0 1.0 0.0 0.0 6.0 0.0 163.5 33.0 Mitas Tires North America Inc. Charles City, Iowa, 2012 0.0 0.0 Pirelli Tire North America Inc. Rome, Ga., (MIRS), 2002 x x 1.2 0.5 Guanajuato, Mexico, 2011 x 2.8 1.2 Total: 4.0 1.7 Specialty Tires of America Inc. Indiana, Pa., 1915 x 0.0 0.4 Unicoi, Tenn., 1997 x 0.0 0.0 Total: 0.0 0.4 Titan Tire Corp. Bryan, Ohio, 1967 x x 0.0 0.0 Des Moines, Iowa, 1943 x 0.0 0.0 Freeport, Ill., 1964 x x 0.0 0.0 Total: 0.0 0.0 Toyo Tire North America Manufacturing Inc. White, Ga., 2005 x x 7.8 7.8 Yokohama Tire Corp. Salem, Va., 1968 4 25.7 1.1 Grupo Carso/Euzkadi (Continental AG) San Luis Potosi, Mexico 15.0 5.0 JK Tyre & Industries (formerly CIA Hulera Tornel) Mexico City, Mexico 0.5 1.0 Tultitlan, Mexico 7.0 1.5 Tacuba, Mexico 2.5 2.5 Total: 10.0 5.0 Corporacion de Occidente SA de CV (Cooper Tire) Guadalajara, Mexico, 2005 x x x 10.0 7.2 Total 30.0 0.0 0.0 14.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 7.0 0.0 5.0 0.0 5.11 8.0 5.0 6.0 208.61 0.0 0.5 0.5 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 1.7 4.0 5.7 0.0 0.0 0.0 4.6 1.6 6.2 5.0 1.6 6.6 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.33 11.25 8.1 19.68 0.33 11.25 8.1 19.68 0.0 0.0 15.6 0.0 0.0 26.8 0.0 0.0 20.0 1.5 0.5 0.0 2.0 0.64 0.4 0.0 1.04 3.64 9.4 5.0 18.04 2.8 0.0 20.0 50.9 0.0 4.8 55.7 U.S. Totals Canadian Totals Mexican Totals TOTAL: 442.1 46.3 62.8 551.2 105.1 11.2 22.8 139.1 79.7 17.0 1.04 97.74 677.8 74.5 91.44 843.74 2014 vs. 2013 +0.4% +0.9% +1.1% -0.1% +0.5% Footnotes: 1 Plants that are ISO (International Organization for Standardization) 9001:2000 certifed (www. iso.org). 2 QS (Quality System) 9000 certifcation, required by suppliers to Ford Motor Co., General Motors Corp. and Chrysler LLC (www.qscertifcation.com). 3 ISO 50001 (Industrial Energy Management Systems). 4 ISO 14001 (Environment Management Systems). www.moderntiredealer.com million tires annually. By 2017, the plant will have a production capacity of approximately fve million units per year. Additional capacity will be available in the next two years when three more plants come on-line. 1. Construction of Kumho Tire U.S.A. Inc.'s $200 million plant in Macon, Ga., which began in 2008 but was put on hold, is back on. CEO and President Harry Choi says the plant is on schedule to begin producing replacement and original equipment consumer tires in August 2015. Initially, the facility will produce 2.1 million tires annually. 2. Yokohama Tire Manufacturing Mississippi (YTMM), the new manufacturing subsidiary of Yokohama Tire Corp., ofcially broke ground on its new commercial truck tire plant in West Point, Miss., on Sept. 23, 2013. It is slated to begin operations in October 2015. Yokohama is making an initial $300 million investment in the facility. When completed, it will produce up to one million tires annually. 3. Hankook Tire America Corp. will begin construction on a consumer tire plant in Clarksville, Tenn., this year. Production at the projected $800 million facility is expected to begin in 2016 following phase one. When the facility is completed following phase two in 2018, annual capacity will be 11 million tires. Toyo Tire & Rubber Co. Ltd. broke ground on a project to expand production capacity at its Toyo Tire North America Manufacturing Inc. plant in White, Ga., late last year. Te $371 million project will add 2.5 million Toyo and Nito brand tires to the plant's capacity. On Oct. 20, 2013, Carlisle Companies Inc. entered into a defnitive agreement to sell its Transportation Products division to American Industrial Partners for $375 million. Carlisle Tire & Wheel Co. is part of Transportation Products. Te deal closed before the end of the year. American Industrial Partners is a middle market private equity frm based in New York, N.Y. ■ 41