AKRON, OH—Researchers at Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. have discovered that using soybean oil in tires can increase tread life by 10 percent and reduce the tiremaker’s use of petroleum by 7 million gallons each year.
WASHINGTON—More jobs will be coming back to the United States from offshore locations during the next eight years, according to a new report by CoreNet Global, an association of corporate real estate executives.
STERLING HEIGHTS, MI—Ford Motor Co. is hiring 225 workers and adding an assembly line at its assembly plant here to make a new hybrid-electric transmission. The carmaker is investing $220 million in the project.
The men and women representing Team USA in this year’s Summer Olympics may have been born, raised and trained in America, but as for their stylish Ralph Lauren uniforms, those were made entirely in China.