DENSO is investing $190 million in its Athens, Tennessee facility to add four production lines and 320 jobs for fuel injection and fuel pump parts. The announcement was made on 28 February 2018.

Faurecia will build a new $60 million, 250,000-square-foot interiors production facility in Blue Springs, Missouri, making door and instrument panels and creating 300 new jobs.

Huron Inc. is building a $13 million, 40,000-square-foot expansion at its Worth Township, Michigan plant, expected to create 181 full-time jobs within three years.

MACA Plastics is relocating its whole operation from Winchester, Ohio to a 122,600 sq ft former TechnoTrim building in Maysville, following a 2016 plan backed by a $7.9 million investment. Staff is expected to grow from 21 to 60-70.

Punch Powertrain inaugurated a 100,000 m² factory in Ningbo, China, completed in January 2018 after eight months of construction, to produce its VT3 CVT. It is the company's second plant in China.

Aisan Industry, a Toyota group company, will set up a joint production company with Fiem Industries near New Delhi to make fuel pumps for two-wheelers, targeting 5 million units a year by the end of 2020 with an investment of several billion yen.

Sanden International and Unicla International signed a strategic alliance under which Unicla's heavy-duty compressors will be co-branded and sold through Sanden's global distribution network. The alliance was finalised in February 2018.

Rheinmetall subsidiary Pierburg won an order from Karma Automotive to supply CWA coolant pumps for the Revero plug-in hybrid, built from its Hartha, Saxony plant, with a contract value in the low six-digit euro range.

TG Fluid Systems USA is adding 62,000 square feet to its Brighton, Michigan plant for $11 million, consolidating operations from Howell. The expansion, due for completion in March 2018, is expected to create 35 entry-level factory jobs.

Mann+Hummel inaugurated its second manufacturing plant in Querétaro, Mexico, with an investment of 300 million pesos to make automotive and industrial filters. The plant will produce 15 million filters per year and create 150 jobs in its first phase.

Hanon Systems is relocating its Americas Innovation Center to a 217,000 square foot building at 39600 Lewis Drive in Novi, Michigan, consolidating its Southeast Michigan sites into one location.

Bendix Commercial Vehicle Systems plans to invest $10 million in capital improvements at its assembly plant in Bowling Green, Kentucky, during 2018.

Linamar is expanding its Linamar Forgings Carolina closed-die forging operation in Wilson, NC, with a $6.8 million investment to make hollow transmission shafts and net-shape differential gears for automotive chassis parts. A $62,000 performance-based grant from the One North Carolina Fund supports the expansion.

Korean automotive supplier Hanon plans to build its third compressor plant in Dalian, China. The article text provided gives no investment, capacity or job figures.

Vipal Borrachas plans R$40 million of investment to add 4,000 motorcycle tyres a day at its Feira de Santana plant, raising output to 8,000 a day and hiring 200 more workers. A protocol of intent was signed with the Bahia state economic development secretariat.

Hanon Systems signed an investment agreement with the Dalian municipal government to build a third plant in Dalian for automotive compressors, bringing total site space to over 98,000 square meters.

Advik Hi-Tech won six orders from Magna Powertrain to supply transmission oil pumps for passenger cars and SUVs, estimated to generate about Rs 350 crore (US$51 million) in sales over their lifetime, starting in 2018.

Rheinmetall subsidiary Pierburg received an order for electronically controlled back-pressure valves from an unnamed Chinese-American engine manufacturer, with lifetime volume worth over EUR 71 million (USD 84 million). The press release was issued on 7 December 2017.

DexKo Global plans to acquire E&P Hydraulics and related German entities, adding levelling systems for caravans, motorhomes and light commercial vehicles to its AL-KO Vehicle Technology business. The deal was announced on 7 December 2017 with no value disclosed.

German Tier 1 automotive supplier BOCAR Group broke ground on a $115 million, 350,000 square foot plant in Huntsville, Alabama, creating more than 300 jobs. The plant will make high-pressure aluminum die castings and plastic parts.

Bosch committed an additional 58 million euros to its Powertrain Solutions CVT pushbelt plant at Long Thanh Industrial Park in Dong Nai, Vietnam, to raise capacity and turn it into a smart factory. Bosch will have invested 321 million euros in the plant in total by the end of 2018.

Standard Motor Products formed a 50/50 joint venture, Foshan FGD SMP Automotive Compressor, with China-based Foshan Guangdong Automotive Air Conditioning, investing approximately US$12.5 million to make automotive air conditioning compressors.

Valeo and PHC Group completed the Valeo-Kapec joint venture, a torque converter business with about 3,150 employees and forecast sales of around 1 billion euros, fully consolidated by Valeo.

Bosch announced a 60 million euro investment to expand its thrust link belt production in Vietnam, part of its Southeast Asia manufacturing growth.

Bosch opened a new fuel injection plant in Hemaraj, Rayong, about 130 km east of Bangkok, its first smart factory in Thailand and second mobility plant there. About 80 million euros is invested from 2015 to end 2017.

PHC Group and Valeo agreed to combine their global torque converter businesses through a joint venture, KAPEC, with PHC's four foreign subsidiaries becoming wholly-owned subsidiaries of KAPEC.

Grupo Saargummi announced a new plant in Querétaro, Mexico, with an investment reported at 682.5 million pesos and about 1,100 jobs to be created in the short and medium term. The plant will make rubber profiles for doors, trunks and windows, including for Volkswagen vehicles.

Federal-Mogul Powertrain completed the acquisition of UK-based Controlled Power Technologies, a developer of 12V and 48V electric motor generators for hybridisation and electrification. The unit will operate as Federal-Mogul Controlled Power; financial terms were not disclosed.

Valeo has closed its acquisition of FTE Automotive, a producer of actuators with more than 3,800 employees and manufacturing in eight countries, after clearances from the European Commission and the Turkish Competition Authority. FTE had 2016 sales of around EUR 550 million. The price was not disclosed.

ElringKlinger (GB) invested almost GBP1.5m in a six-year project worth about GBP5m to produce two components for Ford's latest engines from 2018, creating up to 20 jobs at its Redcar plant.

Schaeffler opened a new plant in Svitavy, Czech Republic, producing thermal management modules for the automotive industry. The investment is about EUR 100 million and is expected to create 900 new jobs within three years.

Castec Korea signed a supply contract with BorgWarner worth KRW 28.513 billion for automotive turbocharger turbo systems, running until the end of 2023.

Castec Korea disclosed a supply contract with Honeywell Technologies SARL worth KRW 85.773 billion for turbine and center housing parts for automotive turbochargers, running from June 2018 to December 2026.

Nippon Piston Ring will invest one billion yen (US$8.9 million) to raise valve seat output by 30 percent at its factory in Karnataka, India, as car and motorcycle production ramps up. The 8,000 sq m facility can reportedly produce around 3 million valve seats per month.

DENSO will expand its Maryville, Tennessee operations, investing $1 billion and creating about 1,000 jobs to make the Blount County facility a primary North American manufacturing center for electrification and safety systems.

Ronal Group officially opened its new plant in Teruel, Aragón, Spain, its second site in northeastern Spain and its 13th plant overall. Construction created over 100 new jobs.

IFA North America, part of the German IFA Group, is building a new $69 million facility in South Carolina to make prop shafts, adding about 120 employees and a new production line.

Japanese-owned Aisan Autopartes México officially started operations at a new plant in Villa de Pozos, San Luis Potosí, Mexico, with a $72 million investment and 260 jobs. The plant makes throttle bodies, engine valves and fuel pumps for the automotive sector.

Bendix Commercial Vehicle Systems invested $3.8 million in its Huntington, Indiana assembly plant in October 2017 to launch two new production lines. The investment was reported in an article dated 2018-08-02.

A merger control filing dated 29 September 2017 concerns SSCP Thermal Bidco's acquisition of shares and control of Vernet SAS and Magnum Corporation, makers of pressure regulating and relief valves, thermostatic cartridges and automotive spare parts.

BorgWarner is expanding its Water Valley, Mississippi location with a $20 million corporate investment expected to create about 75 jobs over two years. The expansion supports transmission technologies for stop/start and hybrid vehicles.

Autocar will invest $120 million to open a heavy-duty cab-over-engine truck assembly plant in an existing one million-square-foot complex in Birmingham and Center Point, Alabama, creating 746 jobs.

Rheinmetall Automotive's Pierburg unit won a first small-series contract to deliver heater/cooler modules for electric vehicles to Dutch bus maker VDL Bus & Coach, for its VDL MidCity Electric minibus due in 2018; the units are assembled in Neckarsulm, Germany.

Fives will supply a Single input Electrically Variable Transmission for the Pacifica hybrid at FCA's Tipton Transmission Plant in Indiana, with volume designed for 30,000 rising to 50,000 units and delivery planned for April 2018.

Android Industries and sister company Avancez will invest $14.7 million to expand operations in Fort Wayne, Allen County, Indiana, creating up to 313 jobs by the end of 2018 to supply new General Motors contracts. Avancez will also open a 300,000-square-foot facility.

Nittan Valve is establishing a local subsidiary, Rizhao Nittan Valve, in Rizhao City, Shandong Province, to produce small engine valves, with planned capital of about 8 billion yen.

Trelleborg Sealing Solutions has bought a 90,000 m² plot between the Lille Nord local railway and the Helsingør motorway at Espergærde and plans a new 17,000 m² factory there. The company expects the plant to be finished in 2020.

Trelleborg is relocating its sealing solutions manufacturing facility to a new plant close to its current site in Helsingør, Denmark, with lean, highly automated lines. It will invest about SEK 120 million over 2017-2020, with production expected to start in early 2020.

Lear Corporation's Moldovan unit in the Ungheni-Business free economic zone has agreed an exclusive deal with Mercedes-Benz to sew seat covers for luxury models. Production of covers for new Mercedes models is set to start in September 2017, reaching 1,800 cars' worth per day by year end.

Sanhua Automotive Mexico opened its third plant in Ramos Arizpe, Coahuila, with an investment of about 400 million pesos, adding roughly 250 jobs. The plant will make automotive thermal expansion valves and other components.