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Bridgestone, Japan’s largest tyre maker, said today it planned to expand its capacity by investing A$150 million in a new Chinese plant, this time in Wuxi near Shanghai.
The plant is scheduled to be built from mid-2011 enabling an additional capacity for Bridgestone of 4200 tyres a day, bringing the company’s total global daily production to 12,000 tyres.
Bridgestone has 48 tyre plants in 22 countries globally.
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4200 tyres a day! Will any of them be comming here? And Bridgestone, there ARE other countries in the world with lower wages than China! Cambodia, Vietnam, Malaysia, Indonesia…
China, China, China, China. I’m sick of the fact most things are made there!
well, it’s a tradeoff between (+) closeness to the market/customers and the (-) net of freight and wage i guess. but i am second on the last sentence.