Yokohama Commercial Tire Plant Nearing Completion

Time: Mar 27th   2015   Copy editor: Tyrefull

Yokohama manufacturing Mississippi said its new commercial tire plant in West Point Miss is nearing competion.

The roughly one-million-square-foot factory is on target to begin production in October 2015, with many of its key milestones involving construction, equipment installation and job recuitment achieved on schedule, according to Yokohama.

" We have come a long way since we broke ground in September 2013," Said Alan Easome, Yokohama Corp. Of North America sennior director of new plant development." we outlined an aggressive plan to have a plant come on line in under 24 months, and now we are that much closer to serving our customers with expanded production capacity right here in the U.S."

Among the milestones achieved are the opening of Yokohama Boulevard, a $20 million, four-mile road that will serve as a major thoroughfare in moving materials and products to and from the plant; substantial completion of the main production building; and installation of equipment, with manufacturing processes, such as rubber mixing, initiated for testing purposes.

The company has recruited 170 employees to date and expects to fill nearly 300 of the 500 jobs projected by the end of the year.

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