Contractor Awarded & Construction Under Way for $30 Million Auto Stamping Plant Expansion in Alabama

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Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)--Kamtek Incorporated (Birmingham, Alabama) has selected Doster Construction Company (Birmingham) to provide general construction services for a $30 million expansion of the company's existing automotive stamping plant (formerly owned by Ogihara America Corporation) in Birmingham.

Construction is under way for a $30 million expansion of the existing 480,000-square-foot, 120,000-units-per-year automotive stamping plant. The expansion consists of constructing two bay expansions of 18,000 square feet, a 6,000-square-foot building, a low-bay expansion of 36,000 square feet, and line modifications on existing presses, and the installing two or three new press lines to increase the plant's existing capacity and to make the plant more efficient. Construction started in October this year, and overall completion is slated for the late spring or early summer of 2010.

Hobbs & Black Associates Incorporated (Lansing, Michigan) was selected to provide architectural services for the expansion.

Kamtek Incorporated, a division of Cosma International (Brampton, Ontario) which is part of Canada's Magna International Incorporated (NYSE:MGA) (Aurora, Ontario), is a privately held company with approximately 400 employees and annual revenues of $50 to $100 million. Kamtek supplies stamping parts for Mercedes-Benz (Stuggart, Germany).

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