Japanese automotive parts maker Yagi completed a PLN 75 million expansion of its Żarów factory, adding a 7,000 sq m hall for wheel hub production.

Tianjin Aida Automatic Transmission, a joint venture of Aisin AW and FAW Group, is adding a finished-product line for front-wheel-drive 6-speed automatic transmissions in Tianjin Development Zone, China. Shareholders added USD 31 million of capital, with production capacity of 300,000 units a year planned for April 2019.

Linamar Hungary will invest HUF 8.64 billion (EUR 27.5 million) to create 200 jobs at Orosháza, Békéscsaba and Gyöngyös, extending lifting machinery production and automotive capacity.

Venture Plastics expanded its Newton Falls, Ohio headquarters by 17,000 square feet and installed a 1,400-ton injection molding machine to win larger automotive parts. The expansion was finished in March 2018.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.