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Thu 25 Jun 15 12:29

Goodyear Wolverhampton - 330 jobs go @ plant - Falkirk Bairn

90 years and they are closing

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-33270374

Other factories around the world inc Europe, will supply the tyres for UK market.

Sad time for many who have worked there for a long time.

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Thu 25 Jun 15 15:52

Goodyear Wolverhampton - 330 jobs go @ plant - Armel Coussine

Apart from the fact that it's a paid job, there's very little to recommend working in a tyre factory. It's a very dirty job and the workers have a higher-than-normal probability of developing bladder and kidney cancers.

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Thu 25 Jun 15 16:06

Goodyear Wolverhampton - 330 jobs go @ plant - No FM2R

>>the workers have a higher-than-normal probability of developing bladder and kidney cancers.

Do they? What from, the rubber?

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Thu 25 Jun 15 16:15

Goodyear Wolverhampton - 330 jobs go @ plant - Armel Coussine

>> What from, the rubber?

Dunno, perhaps, but there's a lot of powdered carbon stuff in tyres I think, to make them black. Tyres are 'cured' by being heated too, and there must be fumes. Even tyre fitting is an unhealthy job judging by the complexion of the old honcho in the place I used to go to in London.

There's one down here which seems better organized though. It's highly mechanized and automated and the blokes put on clean rubber gloves to handle the tyres.

Last edited by: Armel Coussine on Thu 25 Jun 15 at 16:20

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Thu 25 Jun 15 16:25

Goodyear Wolverhampton - 330 jobs go @ plant - No FM2R

Apparenbtly its mostly an historic issue, rather than a current one...

www.hse.gov.uk/rubber/cancerstatement.htm

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Thu 25 Jun 15 17:10

Goodyear Wolverhampton - 330 jobs go @ plant - Zero

i thought we stopped making tyres in the UK years ago.

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Thu 25 Jun 15 17:16

Goodyear Wolverhampton - 330 jobs go @ plant - Boxsterboy

You thought it was all over. It is now.

I knew we made tyres here because some Avons I bought a couple of years ago had 'Made in UK' on them, which surprised me no end. It's a great shame for the workers, especially as I understand the plant was still profitable.

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Thu 25 Jun 15 17:31

Goodyear Wolverhampton - 330 jobs go @ plant - Falkirk Bairn

Michelin tyres in Dundee planning expansion

www.thecourier.co.uk/business/news/michelin-confident-dundee-baldovie-extension-would-lead-to-more-jobs-1.832105

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Thu 25 Jun 15 21:27

Goodyear Wolverhampton - 330 jobs go @ plant - Shiny

I thought it had already closed a couple of years ago when Dunlop in Birmingham closed. As Dunlop and Goodyear are the same company, I assumed it was one and the same factory.

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Thu 25 Jun 15 21:56

Goodyear Wolverhampton - 330 jobs go @ plant - mikeyb

Visited a Goodyear tyre plant in the states. Producing truck and aircraft tyres. About 20K per day IIRC

Really surprising how manual the whole process was plus it was a nasty environment to be in. A few hours was plenty for me

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