Once the tread and sidewall have been applied, the handling robot places the tire on a transport trolley. An autonomous mobile robot, connected to the digital order system, then moves the trolley ...

Akron’s historic Firestone Plant 1 Building is in its final days unless a last-minute "Hail Mary" attempt works to save it.

HANOVER, Germany — Continental A.G. is using autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) to move tires around its ContiLifeCycle ...

AKRON — Several plant closures have changed the tire-making landscape over the last 12 months, with Yokohama Rubber Co. Ltd. (YRC), Group Michelin and Goodyear closing or planning to close the most ...

About 20 former General Tire employees gathered Saturday morning at the old plant off U.S. Highway 77 to get a glimpse of what it will become and reminisce about what it was to them. The large ...

State officials are hoping to sell a tire recycling plant in southwest Baltimore County that has lost $7 million since it opened in 2003 and nearly bankrupted the Maryland Environmental Service, a ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tire manufacturer Bridgestone Americas is closing its LaVergne, Tennessee, truck and bus radial tire plant and laying off 700 workers there, the company announced in a news ...

Heartland Energy and Recycling's proposal to build a tire-burning power plant in Preston has sharply divided the community of 1,400. Critics say a tire-burning plant consuming 10 million tires a year ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tire manufacturer ...