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Plant closure – Bandag to consolidate European retreading

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Retreading operations at the Bandag facility in Lanklaar, Belgium will cease in the coming months. In a statement issued today, Bandag Europe NV announced its intention to close the retreading plant, most likely in the first half of 2025. The company stresses that it has “no other option than to take structural measures” such as this in response to the “significant decrease” in the European retreading market over the past ten years, a trend that has resulted in production overcapacity and uncompetitive production costs.

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Sell us your factory for one euro, German town tells Goodyear

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Despite strong employee efforts to preserve Goodyear’s Fürstenwalde/Spree tyre production facility in Germany, its future now appears bleak, with closure looming. The plant, which employs around 750 workers, will gradually shut down by the end of 2027. Job cuts may begin as early as next year, although the mixing operation will remain at the Fürstenwalde site.

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Michelin closing Trier, Germany plant by year’s end – sizeable severance payouts

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We learned late last year that three Michelin plants in Germany will partially or fully close by the end of 2025, a measure affecting around 1,500 employees at the Homburg, Karlsruhe and Trier facilities. The tyre maker now intends to end operations in Trier earlier than originally indicated; Michelin is giving workers the choice between substantial severance payments, a well-paid transition to retirement or employment elsewhere via move into a ‘transfer company’.

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Kenda shuts Shenzhen tyre factory

On 31 May, Kenda chairman Yang Chi-Jen revealed some of the tyre manufacturer’s operations at the shareholders’ meeting. In his words, the company’s Phase II project at its Shenzhen factory in China stopped production on 1 June and was converted into a sales centre and shipping warehouse. After the suspension of production, the products distributed to the southern Chinese market will come from Kenda’s other tyre manufacturing bases, including the Kunshan and Tianjin factories. Before the suspension of production, the project mainly produced motorcycle tyres.

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Continental closing 2 Automotive sites in Germany

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As part of measures outlined in February, on 26 March 2024 Continental announced the planned closure of its Wetzlar and Schwalbach sites in Germany. Both belong to the company’s non-tyre Automotive group sector.

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Goodyear closing plant in Malaysia

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The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company intends to close another production facility, this time far away from its European operation. The company will end tyre making at its plant in Shah Alam by 30 June 2024, with the closure process completed by the end of this year. Approximately 550 employees will be directly affected by the plant’s shutdown.

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High costs & bureaucratic hurdles – Michelin on Germany factory closures

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Germany’s days as an industrial superpower are coming to an end, opined Bloomberg on 10 February. The media firm blames competition from the USA, the energy crisis and declining Chinese interest in German products for this development, but there are further factors to consider. Michelin, which plans to close several plants within the country, suggests that an excess of bureaucracy is contributing to Germany’s unattractiveness as a manufacturing site.

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Pirelli – German plant important for OE business

Goodyear and Michelin are pruning their operations in Germany in the face of rising energy costs and increased competition from budget brands, and the local rubber industry association didn’t paint a rosy picture of the tyre-making future when it met in November, but one manufacturer has expressed commitment to its German manufacturing site. Pirelli says it has “no plans” to end production at its Breuberg plant.

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Not competitive enough – Michelin confirms plant closures in Germany

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Germany’s position as a centre of manufacturing took another blow today with the confirmation that Michelin will gradually cease production at its Karlsruhe and Trier sites, as well as the manufacture of new tyres and semi-finished products in Homburg. Michelin will also transfer its Customer Contact Center from Karlsruhe to Poland. These changes are expected to be completed by the end of 2025 and will impact a total of 1,532 employees.

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Rubber association pessimistic about Germany’s tyre making future

Those of us living in countries that have experienced extensive deindustrialisation may be able to commiserate with workers in Germany’s tyre plants, including the many who have received unsettling news of late. Michael Berthel, chief economist of the German Rubber Manufacturers’ Association (WdK), recently commented that “the situation is not entirely healthy” – and this may be an understatement. Berthel believes an uncertain future awaits more than half of Germany’s tyre manufacturing locations.

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Goodyear’s German factory closures will cost ~$600 million, save $120 million yearly by 2027

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Goodyear has confirmed that ending tyre production at its Fulda and Fürstenwalde factories in Germany will be recorded as a charge of “between $575 million and $600 million”. Of that, $425 million to $450 million is “primarily for associate-related costs and other exit costs”. The remainder represents “non-cash charges of approximately $150 million” related to “…accelerated depreciation”.

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Bridgestone ends TBR production at Rangsit plant

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Bridgestone Corporation completed the consolidation of its tyre manufacturing operation in Thailand today with the end of truck and bus radial production at its Rangsit plant. Bridgestone Tire Manufacturing (Thailand) Co. Ltd’s Chonburi facility has taken over this production capacity.

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No longer competitive – Michelin closing Ardmore, USA tyre plant

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In response to a “rapidly and profoundly” changing passenger vehicle market in North America, Michelin has decided to end production at its Ardmore tyre plant in Oklahoma. Michelin North America idled operations at the factory from the morning of 26 October to begin the process of presenting details to the workforce. It expects to resume operations early on 28 October, but “over the coming days and weeks” Michelin representatives will discuss separation conditions with each individual employee.

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Goodyear reports $101 million net loss in Q1 2023, EMEA cost cutting accelerated despite breakeven

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Despite a first-quarter 2023 net loss of $101 million, down $197 million compared with $96 million of positive income 12 months ago, Goodyear executives tried to shine a positive light on the US-based tyremaker’s latest financial results. Volumes may have been 3.2 million units lower than the same period last year at 41.8 million units, but net sales grew 1 per cent compared with the first quarter of 2022 and 4 per cent excluding foreign currency effects. And Goodyear EMEA is back to breakeven, but that wasn’t enough to avoid talk of accelerated cost-cutting measures.

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Borbet’s Solingen wheel factory to close

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The Borbet wheel factory in Solingen, Germany will close on 31 December 2022. The wheel manufacturer told its workforce on Monday 28 November at a works meeting. Around 600 employees are affected. All previous attempts to find an economically viable future for the location had failed. A transfer company will be set up.

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