Goodyear’s Increases US Conveyor Belt Production

Flying in the face of suggestions that the US is outsourcing all of its positions abroad, Goodyear has announced that its new belt plant has increased its production capacity, while creating more jobs. In the past year the company has created more than 100 job, increasing its workforce by more than 35 per cent. The company says its expansion is a result of “growing demand from stepped up global mining activity.”

The Marysville plant is currently producing one of the largest orders in the plant’s 37-year history to be shipped to Latin America. The Goodyear Flexsteel ST3600 steel-cord conveyor belt is eight miles long and weighs 1,300 tons. When completed, the order will be shipped to one of the world’s largest open-pit mines located in the Atacama Desert of Chile, which produces copper, gold and silver.

According to Dennis Hare, business manager for Goodyear’s conveyor belt products, the overland belt will transport crushed ore four miles to the mine’s processing plant for separation of metals.