Business Facilities Magazine Hails Continental Tires as #2 Project of the Year

January 02, 2012

Business Facilities Magazine Hails Continental Tires as #2 Project of the Year image

(Excerpt from the Business Facilities article located at: http://businessfacilities.com/news/kentucky-sc-arizona-shine-in-business-facilities-awards-contest/)

Our Silver Award goes to the South Carolina Department of Commerce for Continental Tire Americas (CTA) new plant in Sumter County, SC, which will bring nearly 6,000 new jobs and an overall economic impact of $1.82 billion to a less-developed part of the Palmetto State over the next 10 years.

The new 1-million-square-foot manufacturing facility, located on a 330-acre Greenfield site off U.S. Highway 521, will be opened in 2013 and is expected to reach its production capacity of 5 million tires/year in 2017. A second-phase expansion is being planned that will take the capacity up to 8 million tires by 2021.

“This world-class, $500-million tire manufacturing facility is the largest industrial investment ever made in Sumter County,” Rogers said. “It will be a huge shot in the arm for the growth potential of the entire region.”

CTA opened its headquarters in Lancaster County, SC in 2009 and currently employs 350 people there.

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