Nokian factory tour
A tour of Nokian Tyre's Dayton, Tenn. factory in August 2023.
A Nokian Tyres team member manages the Dayton Factory’s automated calender machine.
The beadwinder at the Dayton factory, where beads are assembled and rubber applied.
Construction has begun in the distance on a wareshouse at Nokian's campus in Dayton, Tenn. The 350,000-sq.-ft. warehouse will be able to store up to 600,000 tires and is set to open by mid-2024.
Raw materials await automated blending into batches in Nokian Tyres’ rubber mixing process.
The edge of the curing area at the Dayton factory, which is connected with tire building by an overhead conveyer belt.
An extruder machine at the Dayton fFactory molds the rubber compound into a tread belt.
One of Nokian Tyres’ 55 production mentors consults colleagues in the Dayton factory’s components area.
Engineers inspect raw materials in the Dayton factory’s mixing area. Nokian Tyres tests raw materials batches for quality before they are blended into rubber compounds.
Pallets of blended rubber awaiting automated transportation to the components area.
Nokian Tyres Senior Communications Manager Wes Boling stands in the Dayton factory’s beadwinding area.
A Nokian Tyres product in the factory’s mixing area.
Tire storage at the Dayton factory will transition to a 600,000 sq.-ft. tire warehouse in 2024.
A team of Nokian Tyres production specialists manage an extruder machine.
Pallets of rubber awaiting reuse at the Dayton factory, where Nokian Tyres recycles or reuses all production scrap and waste.
Raw materials await automated blending into batches in Nokian Tyres’ rubber mixing process.
A pallet of mixed rubber enters an extruder in Nokian Tyres’ components area.
Chemicals for Nokian Tyres’ rubber compounds are deployed from raw materials silos via automated machines.
Soon every Nokian tire sold in the U.S. — with the exception of winter tires — will be manufactured at the Dayton plant, located about 38 miles northeast of Chattanooga.