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Dayco was founded in 1905 as Dayton Rubber Manufacturing Co. [3] by Col. J. C. Hooven in Ohio. The company initially made products such as garden hoses out of natural rubber. In 1908, the company hired John A. MacMillan, and began creating his product, the airless tire. The company also produced the first whitewall tires in 1913. Beginning in ...
The polymer industry is Ohio’s largest industry, with more than 72,000 employees in 996 companies contributing more than $40 billion to Ohio’s GDP in 2023, according to the chamber.
The Akron rubber strike of 1936 was a strike by workers against rubber factory owners in Akron, Ohio.. During the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, rubber factory workers, including those who worked for the three major rubber factories in Akron, OH, faced poor working conditions, low wages, and close to no benefits.
The Diamond Rubber Company was a manufacturer of vehicle tires and other rubber products at the end of the 19th, and into the early 20th century in the United States.. The Diamond Rubber Company was incorporated in March 1894 in Akron, Ohio by the owner of the Diamond Match Company, O.C. Barber.
The 1943 rubber strike was a five-day strike from May 21–26 of nearly 50,000 rubber workers affiliated with the United Rubber Workers of America in U.S. state of Ohio. [1] Centered on the city of Akron , 49,300 workers at the Firestone, General, Goodrich, and Goodyear companies went on strike. [ 2 ]
The union was founded in 1935 [1] as the United Rubber Workers of America and was chartered by the American Federation of Labor (AFL) on September 12. It aligned itself with the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO), and as a result, was suspended by the AFL in 1936 and expelled in 1938. In 1937, it was chartered by the CIO, and by 1953 ...
The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company is an American multinational tire manufacturer headquartered in Akron, Ohio.Goodyear manufactures tires for passenger vehicles, aviation, commercial trucks, military and police vehicles, motorcycles, recreational vehicles, race cars, and heavy off-road machinery.
Applied Industrial Technologies, Inc. (AIT) is a public, global company based in the U.S. and focused on the distribution of bearings, power transmission products, engineered fluid power components and systems, specialty flow control products, and other industrial supplies. AIT provides engineering, design and system integration for industrial ...