# Auria opens new automotive components factory in Vrable, Slovakia

Shenda-owned Auria has opened its new Vrable, Slovakia factory producing automotive flooring systems and decorative trim parts for Jaguar Land Rover and other premium OEM customers. The factory spans 80,700 sq ft with about US$10 million invested to date, initially employing 100 people.

- Type: New facility
- Announced: 2019-02-01
- Where: Vrable, Slovakia, Slovakia
- Value: $10.0M
- Jobs: 100
- Starts operating: 26 Feb 2019
- Status: completed
- Capacity: 80,700 square feet (7,500 square metres)
- Products: automotive flooring systems, decorative trim parts
- Sectors: [Automotive Components](https://endata.com/sectors/automotive-components.md)

## Companies

- [Auria](https://endata.com/companies/37601.md)
- [Jaguar Land Rover](https://endata.com/companies/3372.md) (customer)
- [Shanghai Shenda](https://endata.com/companies/20984.md) (investor)

## Sources

- [just-auto.com](https://www.just-auto.com/news/jlr-supplier-opens-new-slovakia-factory/), 2019-02-26: "Shenda-owned Auria, the global supplier of vehicle acoustical and fibre-based products, has opened its new Vrable, Slovakia factory"
- [automotivemanufacturingsolutions.com](https://www.automotivemanufacturingsolutions.com/assembly/building-to-order/522128), 2019-09-23: "The building housing the Vráble facility is not a new construction but an existing set of premises that Auria took over and kitted out so it could get manufacturing at the site underway in the autumn of 2018."

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