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

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 ...

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

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

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

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

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 ...

TOWN OF TONAWANDA, N.Y. (WKBW) — Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz and Congressman Nick Langworthy said they are shocked ...

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

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