The Cooper Tire and Rubber Company have announced that it will be closing its Melksham factory, the last of the firm’s factories in the United Kingdom. The proposed closure was due to “increasingly challenging” circumstances to keep the factory’s operations given the current business environment.
The proposed closure is slated to happen by the end of 2023, based on a report from Wilshire Live, published on October 13, 2022, Cooper Tires made the announcement on the same day. The Melksham factory has been with Cooper since the very beginning and was with the brand during its rise in the 1950s and 1960s.
