Design Firm Awarded $34 Million Expansion Project in Alabama

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Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)--SSOE Incorporated (Nashville, Tennessee) was selected to provide design services on a $34 million expansion for Topre America Corporation (Cullman, Alabama), a subsidiary of Topre Corporation (Tokyo, Japan) at its Cullman, Alabama, metal-stamping plant that makes auto parts from high-tension steel sheets for Honda, Nissan and Toyota.

Plans are to construct a 90,400-square-foot production building expansion and a 17,800-square-foot warehouse expansion with the installation of four new stamping presses. A general contractor is expected to be selected before the end of the year. Construction is anticipated to begin in spring 2008 with production beginning in spring 2009. Production of new parts for Toyota will start in March 2009. This will be the company’s third expansion since its inception in 2004. In 2006, Topre completed a $15 million expansion adding 75,000 square feet. Approximately 150 jobs will be created, bringing the total employment at the Alabama plant to 600.

Topre Corporation, founded in 1935 in Tokyo, Japan, initially began operations manufacturing pressed components for automobile equipment. Today, Topre manufactures and develops press products, dies and molds, refrigerating vehicles, air-conditioning equipment and electronic equipment. Topre employees more than 2,000 people in Japan and the United States.

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