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WASHINGTON The U.S. Tire Manufacturers Association has recognized Goodyear and Michelin North America Inc. for their efforts in workplace safety and health with 2021 Innovation Awards.
The honors, presented virtually recently, are part of the USTMA s annual Sustainability Awards for Workplace Safety and Health.
In the technology category, Goodyear was recognized for a motion-capture app it developed that performs ergonomic risk assessments.
Goodyear s use of this technology allows employees to film their fellow employees performing a job and upload that clip to the app, which generates an ergonomic risk assessment, the USTMA said.
This tool has helped identify and implement actions to reduce risk and using it within the ergonomics process has reduced ergonomic risk by as much as 30 percent in jobs assessed.
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Chicopee Council approves funding to clean up remaining buildings at Uniroyal
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11/16/2020 -Chicopee- A view of the former Uniroyal plant West Main and Oak Streets. (Don Treeger / The Republican)
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CHICOPEE A project to complete the cleanup of the old Uniroyal factory campus will move forward with an infusion of $870,000 from the City Council.
“We are getting closer and closer to redeveloping Uniroyal-Facemate, which is really exciting for the city of Chicopee,” Mayor John L. Vieau said.
In July 2019 the City Council approved a $2 million bond to clean asbestos and other hazardous waste from the remaining larger buildings at Uniroyal and to clean and raze the former power plant, which is the most contaminated building on the 72-acre property.
Richard Dole, Michelin North America
Even used, wet-weather racing tires, by virtue of having tread, can help Michelin make decisions about tread patterns that can find their way to the consumer market.
GREENVILLE, S.C. Those used tires coming off race cars running in the International Motor Sports Association are black gold to researchers at Michelin North America Inc.
Every turn, every hill, every course puts to the test the company s tires, which are collected after each race and analyzed to provide valuable insight into performance.
The details then are used to not only improve the company s racing tires, but in the development of Michelin s traditional tires sold to the general public, said Tom Sullivan, motorsports marketing manager at the Greenville-based tire maker.