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Article: Ready to be a player; As Goodyear's Dalian, China, plant finishes one expansion, it's gearing up for the next.(Global Tire Report)
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- August 27, 2007
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Byline: Namrita Chow
As Goodyear Dalian Tire Co. Ltd. works toward completing a four-year, $140 million expansion, management already is planning for the next capital improvement to the firm's 15-year-old plant in Dalian.
Production of high-performance tires should hit 17,000 units a day by year-end as the company aims for output of 6 million tires next year, according to a spokesman at the Goodyear subsidiary.
"This is going to be the biggest market in the world one day,'' he said of China. "They are going to say, `Are you ready to supply this market? Are you ready to be a player?'''
Goodyear's plant in Dalian employs 840 and ...