Merry Christmas, Jay,” the man who saved over 24 people during Buffalo’s deadly Christmas blizzard in 2022, is one of over ...

Tonawanda, N.Y. — Sumitomo Rubber announced Thursday it will close its western New York tire manufacturing plant and ...

Employees from Sumitomo Rubber in the Town of Tonawanda are struggling to find new jobs after the facility unexpectedly ...

Union officials are convinced that the plan to shut down Sumitomo Rubber was in the works for months. Sources confirm that ...

Parent company Sumitomo Rubber Industries claimed it had “made sincere efforts to try and save the plant” with advanced ...

The company said it is negotiating with the union over severance packages. Sumitomo Rubber Industries, parent of Sumitomo ...

Steve Godfrey started seeing ominous signs around the plant months ago. The 62-year-old Lockport resident said he began ...

TOWN OF TONAWANDA, N.Y. (WKBW) — Just a few days after workers at Sumitomo Rubber's tire manufacturing plant found out they'd ...

Citing its inability to make tires profitably at its Tonawanda, N.Y., factory, Sumitomo Rubber Industries has decided to ...

Tim Sprunger, vice president of operations and plant manager of the Sumitomo Rubber USA plant in Tonawanda, talks about a ...

Sumitomo Rubber Industries is closing its factory in Tonawanda, N.Y., and dissolving its Sumitomo Rubber USA subsidiary there ...

Sumitomo makes automotive tires for passenger cars, trucks, buses and motorcycles. Production at the Tonawanda facility has ...