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November 14, 2014 01:00 AM

Michelin to open Tweel plant in S.C.

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    Michelin's Tweel airless tires are in use on this skid-steer loader.

    GREENVILLE, S.C.—Michelin North America Inc. is opening a plant in Piedmont, S.C., dedicated to the production of its Tweel, a non-pneumatic tire/wheel assembly.

    The tire maker did not disclose investment, size, employment or production capacity details at this time. The company will hold a ribbon cutting Nov. 20 for the plant, the firm's 10th in South Carolina and 16th in the U.S.

    Piedmont is an unincorporated census-designated place south of Greenville in Anderson County with a population of about 5,000 inhabitants.

    Greenville-based Michelin only recently disclosed its first OE fitments for the Tweel — with Deere & Co. for the John Deere ZTRAK zero-turn commercial lawn mowers, along with an expanded size range for skid steers.

    The Tweel—which uses a network of elastomeric polyurethane spokes fused to a wheel hub and a circular outer flat rim to replace the casing, beads and sidewall structures as the load-bearing element—debuted at the 2005 North American International Auto Show in Detroit.

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