Changing Markets are Forcing North American Tire Plants to Shut Down

For decades, a giant tire factory looked like the sort of industrial operation that would never disappear. Cars would always need tires, after all, and North America certainly wasn’t going to stop buying cars.

That assumption is becoming considerably less comfortable, as major tire manufacturers have been closing older North American factories as the products consumers want, and the economics behind producing them, change underneath the industry…

Source: Yahoo!