Nokian Tyres marked the opening of a huge state-of-the-art warehouse Thursday as the tire maker has upped its investment to a half-billion dollars at its plant since breaking ground in 2017.
“That’s the last piece of capital infrastructure as part of the initial stage of ramp up,” Wes Boling, a spokesperson for the Dayton, Tennessee, plant said by phone.
The 350,000-square-foot, finished goods warehouse will enable Nokian to hire about a dozen more employees and put the company at about 525 workers, he said.
David Korda, the plant’s operations director, said the factory started with a 60-employee launch team for production five years ago.
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