Calsonic Kansei, a supplier to Nissan's Canton, Mississippi plant, expanded in Madison County, Mississippi with a $16.33 million investment that creates 98 new jobs. It leased and upfitted a former warehouse in Gluckstadt, and manufacturing began in May 2017.

BorgWarner agreed to acquire Sevcon, Inc. in a transaction with an enterprise value of approximately $200 million, subject to Sevcon shareholder approval and competition clearance.

Cooper Standard will create approximately 98 new jobs and invest $1 million in new plant equipment at its Surgoinsville facility in Hawkins County, Tennessee, to make coolant tube and hose assemblies and fuel and brake lines.

UFI Filters is opening a new plant in Opole, Poland, to make heat exchangers with vacuum brazing, doubling its heat exchanger capacity. The 42 million PLN (about 10 million EUR) investment will create at least 65 jobs, with operations starting in Q2 2018.

Bosch will begin operations in December 2017 at a new plant in Querétaro, Mexico, with investment above $80 million. The plant will focus on steering systems for automakers in the Bajío corridor.

Timken India Ltd., a majority-owned subsidiary of The Timken Company, agreed to merge with ABC Bearings Ltd., a maker of tapered, cylindrical and spherical roller bearings based in Mumbai with plants in Bharuch and Dehradun, in a share-based deal subject to Indian approvals.

Faurecia signed a joint venture agreement with Dongfeng Motor Parts & Components Group for its Clean Mobility business in Wuhan, China, on 4 July 2017. The JV is set to start operations in 2018.

Del Shares (Delar) plans a project in Fuxin, Liaoning to add 1 million automatic transmission oil pumps a year, with a total investment of about CNY 337.9 million.

Walbro LLC opened a new aluminum die casting facility co-located with its engine management plant in Los Mochis, Sinaloa, Mexico. It starts with flywheels for small engines and plans six more die casting machines.

Fukai Toyotetsu Indiana Corp plans to invest $56.9 million to double its 125,000-square-foot facility at 1100 N. Lebanon St., Lebanon, Indiana, to 250,000 square feet, creating up to 155 new jobs by 2020.

Fukai Toyotetsu Indiana Corp held a grand opening on June 6, 2017 for its automotive parts manufacturing facility in Jamestown, Indiana.

GECOM, a subsidiary of Mitsui Kinzoku ACT, will invest $26.29 million to launch three new manufacturing lines at its Greensburg, Indiana plant, creating up to 30 new jobs by 2019.

Faurecia acquired exclusive access to intellectual property and process know-how for composite hydrogen tanks from Stelia Aerospace Composites, to develop high-pressure tanks for fuel cell electric vehicles.

The Continental-HASCO joint venture Continental Huayu Brake Systems (Chongqing) started operation at a new 80,000 square meter plant in Chongqing Liangjiang New Area, with over CNY 600 million invested, to make brake calipers, vacuum boosters and electric parking brakes.

Rheinmetall Automotive's KS Kolbenschmidt signed a licence agreement with ZYNP to produce and market commercial vehicle steel pistons in China, with a new plant in Mengzhou, Henan province, funded by an unspecified double-digit million euro investment.

Austrian technology group Miba AG will raise its stake in Brazilian sinter component maker Mahle Metal Leve Miba Sinterizados from 40 to 100 percent as of 30 June 2017. The company will be renamed Miba Sinter Brasil and operates a site in Indaiatuba near São Paulo.

MAHLE opened its new air conditioning compressor plant in Changshu, Jiangsu, relocated from Suzhou with doubled capacity. Equipment investment has reached RMB 180 million, with further investment planned.

Flex-N-Gate broke ground on a $95 million, 600,000-square-foot automotive parts manufacturing plant on 30 acres in Detroit's east side, expected to open in Q1 2018.

HSV Packaging & Logistics was selected by Audi as one of four suppliers to provide EPP transport trays over four years for its plants, with Bentley, Lamborghini and MAN also included in the contract.

Keihin IPT Mfg, LLC completed its acquisition of Keihin Aircon North America, Inc. from Keihin Corporation and others in April 2017, after agreeing the deal on February 21, 2017.

Plastic Omnium finalized the sale of seven European automotive exterior sites (four in France, one in Spain, two in Germany) to Flex|N|Gate for an enterprise value of €200 million, a disposal required by the European Commission after the Faurecia Auto Exterior takeover.

NGK Insulators will invest about 29.0 billion yen to expand production of GPF and SiC DPF ceramics at NGK Ceramics Polska's Gliwice plant and its No. 2 plant in Dabrowa Gornicza. Capacity is to rise to about three times for GPFs and 30% for SiC DPFs by April 2020.

Sweden-based Concentric AB won an order to supply electric oil pumps for hybrid heavy trucks and buses, worth about SEK 38 million (around USD 4.3 million) over eight years in Europe, with production starting in the second half of 2018.

BorgWarner Cooling Systems (India) has opened a fully automated Visctronic assembly line at its plant in Sriperumpudur near Chennai. The line has an annual capacity of 500,000 units and will start rolling out products in Q2 2017 for BS-IV applications.

Rheinmetall Automotive's affiliate Pierburg booked its first order for a special application of coolant valves from a major American carmaker for NAFTA-market pick-ups, with a lifetime value over US$25 million and series production scheduled for 2019.

Autoneum North America is building a 315,000-square-foot expansion in Aiken with $35.5 million of investment and 41 new jobs, with completion slated for mid to late 2017.

Continental celebrated completion of a major expansion at its Juárez 1 plant in the Parque Industrial Panamericano, which will add two new products, a BLDC motor and a Mass Air Flow sensor, over the next two years.

Tristone Flowtech Group is investing nearly $6.4 million in 2016 and 2017 to expand manufacturing equipment at its new Delicias, Chihuahua plant, which began production in December 2016 and doubles the size of the existing site.

Valeo and South Korean partner Pyeong Hwa Group agreed to create the Valeo-Kapec joint venture, combining their torque converter businesses. The company, headquartered in Daegu, will be controlled and fully consolidated by Valeo and is expected to generate around EUR 1 billion in annual sales, subject to regulatory approval.

BorgWarner plans to add 17,000 square feet of manufacturing and engineering space at its Kakkalur, India engine timing components plant later in 2017, marking 15 years of the facility.

thyssenkrupp announced a plant in Debrecen, Hungary, for coil springs and stabilizers, with construction starting in spring 2017 and production from 2018. The roughly EUR 35 million investment is expected to create around 250 jobs by 2020.

Fuyao Automotive North America, a subsidiary of China's Fuyao Group, will open a new automotive glass manufacturing facility in Plymouth, Michigan, investing $66.3 million and creating 533 jobs. The project received Michigan Strategic Fund support and a $1 million state grant.

Thyssenkrupp plans to produce springs and stabilizers at a new plant in Pinghu, China, according to an Automotive News report dated 2017-01-26.

MinebeaMitsumi is building its largest European production plant near the international airport in Kosice, Slovakia, with production planned to start in 2018. The plant will make brushless DC motors, motor systems, sensors, LED products and fans.

BorgWarner opened a new 8,000 square metre plant in Manesar near New Delhi on 31 January 2013, producing EGR coolers, tubes, valves and modules, replacing its Faridabad site.

Chinese supplier Nanjing Aotecar New Energy Technology won a supply order from Groupe PSA for automotive air-conditioning compressor units, issued on 5 January 2017. A formal contract is expected to be signed later.

Valeo Autosystemy plans to invest at least 101.7 million zloty in expanding its Chrzanów plant with a warehouse and new production lines for car lamps, creating 100 new jobs.

Valeo Autosystemy received a permit to invest 323 million zloty in expanding and equipping its Skawina plants in the Kraków Special Economic Zone, creating at least 150 jobs.

Bendix has doubled manufacturing capacity for solenoid valves and assembled manifolds at its Acuña, Mexico plant with a US$1.5 million investment adding a low-flow solenoid line and a manifold line.

Maflow Mexico, a Boryszew subsidiary, started production at a new 4,712-square-meter greenfield plant in Silao, Guanajuato, invested US$13.8 million, supplying air conditioning parts and tubing for Volkswagen's Atlas SUV.

Saf-Holland Inc. received Ohio tax credit approval and expects to create 30 full-time positions in West Chester Twp., Ohio, with over $2 million in new annual payroll.

Eaton Automotive Systems will invest 107 million PLN to expand its Bielsko-Biala factory in Poland, adding 10 new positions to the existing 745 jobs.

Bos Automotive announced a $12 million expansion of its Irapuato, Guanajuato plant, adding 8,000 square meters and about 400 jobs over three years. The German auto parts maker is celebrating ten years in the state.

Crestview completed its take-private acquisition of Accuride, according to a PE Hub report dated 18 November 2016. No deal value was given in the article.

European automotive supplier Truck & Wheel Group announced it will open a $35.2 million plant in Vance, Alabama, creating about 74 jobs.

Brose Tuscaloosa will launch a $26.5 million expansion of its Vance plant next year, adding about 50 jobs. Tuscaloosa County approved tax abatements and incentives totaling $1.3 million, with construction expected to start by June and finish at year's end.

Inteva Products has opened a new manufacturing facility in Zhenjiang, China, making closure systems and motors and electronics for customers. The plant already employs more than 600 people.