# Kobe Aluminum Automotive Products to invest $53M in Kentucky expansion

Kobe Aluminum Automotive Products (KAAP) announced a $53 million expansion of its Bowling Green, Kentucky facility, adding a melting and casting line and two forging presses. The expansion will increase production capacity from 540,000 to 970,000 pieces per month and create 100 jobs.

- Type: Expansion
- Announced: 2017-04-28
- Where: Bowling Green, Kentucky, United States
- Value: $53.0M
- Jobs: 100
- Starts operating: Jun 2017
- Status: announced
- Capacity: 970,000 pieces per month
- Products: aluminum forged suspension products
- Sectors: [Automotive Components](https://endata.com/sectors/automotive-components.md)

## Companies

- [Kobe Aluminum Automotive Products](https://endata.com/companies/23900.md)
- [Toyota Tsusho](https://endata.com/companies/3935.md) (partner)
- [Kobe Steel](https://endata.com/companies/6583.md) (partner)
- [Mitsui & Co.](https://endata.com/companies/10710.md) (partner)

## Sources

- [kobelco.co.jp](https://www.kobelco.co.jp/english/releases/1196835_15581.html), 2017-04-28: "KAAP plans to invest approximately US$53 million (about 5.8 billion yen) to install an additional melting and casting line and two forging presses."
- [toyota-tsusho.com](https://www.toyota-tsusho.com/english/press/detail/170428_003957.html), 2017-04-28: "KAAP plans to invest approximately US$53 million (about 5.8 billion yen) to install an additional melting and casting line and two forging presses."
- [globenewswire.com](https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2017/04/28/974560/25819/en/kobe-aluminum-automotive-products-llc-announces-expansion-in-warren-county.html), 2017-04-28: "This is our 12th year producing aluminum automobile suspension parts in Kentucky"
- [newequipment.com](https://www.newequipment.com/metal-forming/article/21923901/kobe-to-increase-aluminum-automotive-forging-again), 2017-05-01: "This summer, a new project will begin to install a new Kobe Aluminum Automotive Products in Bowling Green, KY, will start its seventh expansion project later this year, a $53-million program to increase output of forged aluminum automotive suspension components to more than 11.6 million parts annual"
- [alcircle.com](https://www.alcircle.com/news/japans-kaap-increases-production-of-forged-aluminium-suspension-products-27605), 2017-05-02: "Kobe Aluminum Automotive Products, LLC announced company’s newest expansion project in the South Central Kentucky Industrial Park in Bowling Green."
- [worldal.com](http://www.worldal.com/news/japan/2017-05-04/149387025352963.shtml), 2017-05-04: "This is our 12th year producing aluminum automobile suspension parts in Kentucky."
- [foundry-planet.com](https://www.foundry-planet.com/d/jp-kobe-aluminum-automotive-products-llc-announces-expansion-in-warren-county/), 2017-05-08: "This is our 12th year producing aluminum automobile suspension parts in Kentucky."

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