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Plan Firestone plant, plantation at Manila; $5,300,000 project
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| Title | Plan Firestone plant, plantation at Manila; $5, 300, 000 project |
| Transcription | PLAN FIRESTONE PLANT, PLANTATION AT MANILA / $5,300,000 project /
Plans for the construction of a $5,300,000 tire and tube manufacturing plant in the Philippines and the development of a rubber plantation there were announced today by Harvey S. Firestone Jr., chairman of Firestone Tire & Rubber Co.
The Philippine plant will be the 14th foreign plant operated by Firestone.
The plant will be located in the Manila area, and will have approximately 115,000 square feet of floor space and will be equipped to produce 100,000 passenger car and truck tires annually.
Present plans also call for the establishment of a 1,000-acre rubber plantation.
Under the corporate title of Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. of the Philippines, the plant will be able to meet the tire needs of local automobile assembly
plants and Filipino motorists.
FIRESTONE said, "By producing tires locally, Firestone will be better able to service the 115,000 motor vehicles in the Philippines as well as the many thousands of new cars and trucks being assembled and imported annually.
"Firestone's new plant will help the Philippines to attain its goal of producing enough tires to satisfy all domestic requirements."
Samuel Broers, president of Firestone International Co., is
in charge of arrangements.
FIRESTONE recently announced that it was going to build a tire and tube manufacturing plant in Havana, Cuba.
Other Firestone foreign plants are located at Hamilton, Ontario, Canada; Brentford, England; Port Elizabeth, South Africa; Christchurch, New Zealand; Bombay, India; Bilbao, Spain; Pratteln, Switzerland; Valencia, Venezuela; Buenos Aires, Argentina; Sao Paulo, Brazil; Viskafors, Sweden, and Hamburg, Germany. |
| Description | Firestone Tire and Rubber Company announces plans for a tire and tube manufacturing plant and a rubber plantation in the Philippines. |
| Date | 1956-05-17 |
| Subject | Firestone Tire and Rubber Company
Philippines
Rubber Plantation
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| Publisher | Akron Beacon Journal
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| Contributors | Akron-Summit County Public Library
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| Type | Text
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| Format | 3.75 x 8.5 inch. |
| Source | FT_Plan firestone.jpg |
| Language | English |
| Relation | Business & Government pamphlet files
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| Rights | Copyright owned by the Akron Beacon Journal |
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