# Novares opens $1.75M automotive plastics plant in Santa Ana, Mexico

Novares opened a new $1.75 million, 8,014 sq m factory in Santa Ana, Sonora, Mexico, producing plastic tubes and molded parts for automotive emission control and battery cooling systems. The plant consolidates tube assembly from Richmond, Wisconsin, and nearby Santa Ana, and will employ around 400 people.

- Type: New facility
- Announced: 2022-04-25
- Where: Santa Ana, Sonora, Mexico
- Value: $1.75M
- Jobs: 400
- Starts operating: 25 Apr 2022
- Status: completed
- Products: plastic tubes for emission control, molded parts for oil separators, electric car battery cooling system parts
- Sectors: [Automotive Components](https://endata.com/sectors/automotive-components.md)

## Companies

- [Novares](https://endata.com/companies/26886.md)

## Sources

- [just-auto.com](https://www.just-auto.com/news/novares-opens-new-factory/), 2022-04-25: "The site is 100km south of the US border, simplifying supply chains to North America."

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