Goodyear: What's Left After Fayetteville

The closing of Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co.'s Fayetteville, N.C., plant will leave the company with nine remaining factories in North America.

That includes two plants in Canada, one in Mexico and six in the United States.

According to MTD's 2026 Facts Issue, the Fayetteville factory, which opened in 1969 under the ownership of Kelly-Springfield Tire Co. and is scheduled to close next year, has the capacity to build 31,000 passenger tires and 10,500 light truck tires per day.

In terms of daily production capacity, it's Goodyear's third largest plant in North America, behind the firm's Lawton, Okla., factory, which has the capacity to produce 65,400 units, and the former Cooper Tire & Rubber Co. plant in Tupelo, Miss., which can make around 42,000 passenger tires a day when running at full throttle.

Goodyear's oldest plant is in Findlay, Ohio. Dating back to 1917, the factory, which Goodyear took on when it acquired Cooper Tire & Rubber Co., can build up to 23,000 passenger and light truck tires per day at full capacity, according to MTD research.

The company's plant in Texarkana, Ark, which opened in 1964, has the capacity to produce 32,000 consumer tires daily, while its plant in Topeka, Kan., can make around 500 light truck tires per day, around 5,500 medium truck tires per day and around 100 other tires on a daily basis.

Goodyear's Danville, Va., plant makes aircraft tires. (In early-2025, the company confirmed that it would move “the majority” of TBR tire production at its Danville, Va., plant to “other facilities within its footprint.” Danville had been the biggest producer of Goodyear medium truck tires in North America and had the capacity to build 11,000 TBR tires per day at full throttle.)

Goodyear's nine-year-old plant in San Luis Potosi, Mexico, can build 16,400 passenger tires per day at full capacity, but according to MTD research, does not build light truck tires currently.

The Akron, Ohio-based tiremaker's plant in Medicine Hat, Alberta, has the capacity to build 13,000 tires per day, while its factory in Napanee, Ontario, has the capacity to make 19,000 passenger tire units daily, according to MTD data.

In its 2026 Facts Issue, published this past January, MTD reported that Goodyear is moving ahead with investments at its Napanee and Lawton plants. 

"The Napanee project continues to move forward, with expected completion in 2027," a Goodyear spokesperson told MTD at the time, while the company's "modernization project" in Lawton was expected to wrap up in 2026.

A chart listing all North American tire manufacturing plants and their estimated production capacities can be found on pages 42-43 of MTD's 2026 Facts Issue.