Cooper Tire & Rubber.Cooper Tire & Rubber, Findlay Findlay (fĭn`lē, fĭnd`lē), city (1990 pop. 35,703), seat of Hancock co., NW Ohio, on the Blanchard River; inc. 1887. Petroleum products, tires, washing machines, heavy machinery, and plastic goods are among its many manufactures. , OH, announced that an off-take contract has been signed between Cooper Tire and Taiwan-based Kenda Rubber for Kenda to produce passenger radial radial /ra·di·al/ (ra´de-al) 1. pertaining to the radius of the arm or to the radial (lateral) aspect of the arm as opposed to the ulnar (medial) aspect; pertaining to a radius. 2. tires for Cooper's International Division. These tires will be sold under a variety of brand names, including Cooper and Avon. The fires will be sold through the Cooper-Avon location in Melksham, England, primarily to customers in Europe. Under this off-take arrangement, Kenda will manufacture radial passenger fires for Cooper-Avon at its newly constructed tire plant near Shanghai Shanghai (shăng`hī`, shäng`hī`), city (1994 est. pop. 12,980,000), in, but independent of, Jiangsu prov., E China, on the Huangpu (Whangpoo) River where it flows into the Chang (Yangtze) estuary. , China, with technical guidance from Cooper. Cooper will relocate re·lo·cate v. re·lo·cat·ed, re·lo·cat·ing, re·lo·cates v.tr. To move to or establish in a new place: relocated the business. v.intr. engineering staff to the Kenda plant to facilitate production and assist with technical details. Kenda is also the exclusive distributor for Cooper Tire in Taiwan. |
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