Wednesday, September 28, 2011 Bridgestone to Increase Truck and Bus Tire Production
 Bridgestone Americas Tire Operations (BATO) announced it will invest $36.6 million in its Warren County, Tenn., plant to increase production capacity by an additional 900 truck and bus tires per day.
The expansion is expected to be complete in the first quarter of 2013. The investment is part of a comprehensive expansion in U.S. manufacturing operations announced yesterday by Bridgestone Americas, Inc. (BSAM), BATO's parent company. To meet the growing global demand for off-road radial tires, the company announced it will build a new off-road radial plant in Aiken County, S.C. It also announced a substantial increase in production capacity at its existing passenger and light truck tire plant in Aiken County.
All together, these projects combined with the new investments in the Warren County plant represent an investment of more than $1.2 billion in Bridgestone Americas' U.S. manufacturing operations and are expected to create more than 900 new jobs in the next nine years.
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