If you visit, exercise caution as some of the doors will lock behind you and you could trap yourself in between them. Today the property is vacant and stripped of everything inside. Grades 1 to 7 The Woodstock Learning Center Grade School Department provides Basic Education from Grades 1 to 6. On October 4th, 2017 an emergency meeting was held to announce that production would be gradually scaled back and production would cease entirely by the end of 2018. In 1967, Plant Number Three was built for the production of Nylon 6.įirestone employed 170 employees (35 salaried and 135 hourly) from the Woodstock area. Astha Aggarwal Posted at 16:54h, 09 August Reply. Find out more about distance learning at Woodstock in the 2020-21 academic year. In 1984, a $6 million expansion took place and gradually integrated employees from Plant #1 into Plant #2. Posted at 11:00h in All, Distance learning, Education Matters by Will Ferguson 5 Comments. It allowed for expanded tire cord production using larger, cost-effective spools. In 1965 Plant Number Two opened at 1200 Dundas Street East. Firestone was also the first job for many immigrants arriving to Canada during the 1950’s. 3rd gen, family-owned custom plastics thermoforming company with in house packaging design, tooling, manufacturing, and cleanroom thermoforming. Today tires are reinforced using a mixture of nylon and polyester.ĭuring the Second World War, many of the positions at Firestone were held by women. The cotton was used until the 1940’s when rayon was introduced. Plant #1 manufactured cotton for tire cord cotton reinforced tires.
The building was known as Plant Number 1, located at the corner of Oxford and Ingersoll Streets.
Firestone Cotton Mills of Canada began operations in 1936 in a building purchased from the Oxford Knitting Mills in Woodstock, Ontario.
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