Chappell, Lindsay
TUSKEGEE, AL—Korean auto parts manufacturer Samkee Corp. is investing $128 million to build its first U.S. assembly plant here, creating 170 jobs with an average pay of just over $20 an hour. Construction has begun this month, production is expected to begin sometime in 2024. Samkee make...
Automakers want to source components from suppliers who are in proximity, which consequently drives cluster development in areas where foreign automakers have built their assembly plants.Another factor that “tends to create more local suppliers” is exchange rate volatility, according t...
Alabama’s four assembly plants and affiliated factories contributed $10.8 billion to the state’s economy last year. That’s according to a new report from Autos Drive America and the American International Automobile Dealers Association (AIADA). According to the report, the auto industry has inve...
For decades, the rumors that Volvo and Audi would build full assembly plants in the Southern Automotive Corridor would surface, then go away, then surface again. One rumor ended when Volvo announced it would build its first vehicle plant in the Western Hemisphere in 2015 near Charleston, S.C...
Gesan employs about 160 people and is based in Zaragoza, Spain, where it has a production and assembly facility. Its gen- erators are used for primary power supply and for standby purposes. The distributor network reaches more than 85 countries, with Europe, Africa and Russia as the most ...
Auto production in the Southeast continues to expand. The nine assembly plants and numerous associated suppliers located in the region continue to add to payrolls as auto manufacturers establish new production in the Southeast or increase production at existing facilities. This trend has been well publ...
A tour of the Birmingham, Alabama, plant floor with Mochrie before our test drive really drove this point home. Unlike most truck plants, there are no robots working frantically to weld or install vehicle components. There’s not even a moving assembly line. Because of the high amount of cu...
Honda announced on Wednesday that it would suspend production at all assembly plants in the United States, Canada, and Mexico for six days beginning March 23. The suspension is due to “an anticipated decline in market demand” related to the pandemic, a Honda statement said. ...
Based on teamwork between plants and our flexible system we added new models in Alabama to optimize our North American capacity to meet customer demand in the most efficient manner. First, we moved production of the Ridgeline from Canada to Line 1 in Alabama alongside Odyssey. This allowed ...