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In 1898 Frank A. Seiberling acquired an old strawboard factory in Akron, Ohio and founded the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company (naming it after Charles Goodyear, the inventor of vulcanized rubber). He served as the company's president for 15 years when, in 1921 the company was refinanced and reorganized.
Later on in 1945, Union Carbide built a plant in the complex to manufacture butadiene from grain alcohol that was piped to Rubbertown from distilleries in Louisville. Also in that year, a consortium of five tire companies known as National Synthetic Rubber opened a plant to make styrene-butadiene rubber for tires needed in the war effort.
Goodyear was the first global tire manufacturer to enter China when it invested in a tire manufacturing plant in Dalian in 1994. Goodyear was a component of the Dow Jones Industrial Average between 1930 and 1999. [8] The company opened a new global headquarters building in Akron in 2013.
Mason, appointed Hebron fire chief in July 2018 and the new Refugee-Canyon chief in November 2019, said the new fire district accomplished its stated goals but just lacked funding.
Eric Nshimiye, a 52-year-old originally from Rwanda, has carved a decades-long career as an engineer and neighborly father-of-four in Ohio. Now federal authorities charge that he’s been living a ...
As of the census [8] of 2010, there were 2,336 people, 979 households, and 626 families living in the village. The population density was 760.9 inhabitants per square mile (293.8/km 2).
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The estate was built between 1912 and 1915 for F. A. Seiberling, co-founder of the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company, and his wife, Gertrude Ferguson Penfield Seiberling.. They named their "American Country Estate" Stan Hywet, loosely translated from Old English meaning "stone quarry" or "stone hewn," to reflect the site's earlier use and the abandoned stone quarries located on the grounds of ...