...In October, Continental Tire the Ameri cas announced a $500 million investment in Sumter County for a new tire manufacturing plant, estimated to create 1,700 new jobs in 10 years.At the beginning of September, the South Carolina Coordinating...

...lead to Rome ROME - Italian tiremaker Pirelli said it will build a major research and development facility and a tire manufacturing plant in a Rome industrial park. Carlo Bianconi, the president of Pirelli North America, said the company also will...

...at antiques shops, trade shows and from the families of World War II veterans. Mr. Feindel, who works at a tire manufacturing plant in Charlotte, N.C., won't say how much a particular item or his whole collection is worth. The only fee...

...spring as scheduled. Some 800 people are expected to be employed at the plant by the year 2000, producing 25,000 radial tires per day. "It will be the fastest start-up for a tire manufacturing plant in the world," Mr. Aoki said.

...development of the Sage Mill Industrial Park extension in Graniteville, site of the Bridgestone/Firestone tire manufacturing plant now under construction. Earlier this year, the Department of Energy awarded $4.5 million to the Savannah...

...Bridgestone/Firestone, the world's largest tire manufacturer, announced plans in August to build a $435 million tire-manufacturing plant in Aiken County and eventually hire about 800 people.

...Employment Security Commission when speculation began earlier this month that the county had was competing to land a tire-manufacturing plant, Mrs. Britt said. Over the past week, about 20 inquiries a day have been made to the local office. The...

...Firestone locating in Aiken County," Mr. Mason said. Aiken County is the likely site of a $400 million tire-manufacturing plant that could bring a $25million dollar payroll to the area and employ up to 800 workers by the end of the century...

AIKEN -- Even if Aiken County is not chosen as the site of a $400 million tire-manufacturing plant, local officials say they still have a jewel in Sage Mill Industrial Park. "It's a diamond in the rough," said Ronnie Young...

AIKEN - Aiken County is the likely site of a new $400 million tire-manufacturing plant, which comes as welcome news to an area hit hard by layoffs at the Savannah River Site. Although county officials were tight-lipped...