CARTERSVILLE — Toyo Tire launched its fourth expansion of operations in Bartow County, with plans to add 450 more jobs within the next two years and another 200 jobs by 2017.
Jim Hawk, the president of Toyo’s North American division, said Friday the tire manufacturer plans to invest $371 million in the expansion. It was not immediately clear what type of state incentives were involved in the decision.
Gov. Nathan Deal attended the ground-breaking ceremony at the noisy manufacturing plant in Cartersville as dozens of the plant’s workers looked on. Over the din of machinery, Deal credited the 2012 repeal of a sales tax on energy used in manufacturing with sealing the deal.
“Toyo Tire could have gone anywhere in the world to make this kind of addition. But they chose to stay right here in Bartow County. And I believe with the help of the General Assembly we have made the prospects of expansion even better.”
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