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Firestone Building Products (Bridgestone)
Second-largest US EPDM roofing membrane producer; subsidiary of Bridgestone Americas (and ultimately Bridgestone Corporation, Japan). Markets UltraPly TPO and EPDM membranes; Carmel IN is primary US operations hub. Leverages Bridgestone's rubber polymer expertise from automotive rubber to commercial roofing.
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EPDM Commercial Roofing Membranes
45%TPO & PVC Single-Ply
40%Green & Specialty Roofing
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Did you know2023
Bridgestone Corporation's rubber polymer chemistry simultaneously produces: the tires on your car (automotive supply chain — Bridgestone is the world's largest tire manufacturer); the EPDM membrane protecting commercial building rooftops (commercial construction supply chain — via Firestone Building Products); and the conveyor belt systems that move coal and minerals in mining operations worldwide (industrial supply chain — Bridgestone also makes industrial rubber conveyor belts). The same company's vulcanized rubber formulations serve transportation, building envelope, and industrial materials handling across three completely different infrastructure sectors. The automotive supply chain's tire industry and the commercial roofing industry and the industrial mining supply chain all have upstream dependencies on Bridgestone's global rubber compounding and vulcanization expertise. This breadth is the result of Firestone's 1900-era recognition that automotive rubber and industrial rubber are the same material platform.
Bridgestone Corporation ↗Origin2023
Firestone Building Products is a subsidiary of Bridgestone Americas, itself the North American arm of Bridgestone Corporation — the world's largest tire manufacturer, headquartered in Tokyo. Bridgestone acquired Firestone Tire & Rubber Company in 1988 for $2.6 billion in one of the most contentious and publicized Japanese acquisitions of an American industrial company in the 1980s era of Japanese-US trade friction. Harvey Firestone had founded Firestone Tire in 1900 in Akron, Ohio — the birthplace of the US tire industry — after meeting Henry Ford and becoming the exclusive tire supplier for early Ford automobiles. Firestone and Ford's friendship and business relationship is considered one of the most important corporate partnerships in American automotive history. When Bridgestone acquired Firestone, it gained not only tires but the EPDM building products division that Firestone had developed from its rubber compounding expertise. The rubber chemistry that Bridgestone applies to building EPDM membranes for commercial rooftops is the same EPDM rubber expertise developed for automotive applications. Harvey Firestone's Ohio tire company, absorbed into Japan's tire giant 88 years after its founding, now competes with Carlisle Companies for dominance in the EPDM membranes protecting American commercial buildings.
Firestone Building Products LLC / Bridgestone Americas ↗