Tier One Supplier Under Way on $45 Million Expansion of Automotive Stamping Plant in South Carolina

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Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)--LSP Automotive Systems Limited (Spartanburg, South Carolina) is currently under way on a $45 million expansion of an automotive stamping manufacturing plant in Union, South Carolina.

Construction calls for adding 125,000 square feet to the 230,000-square-foot building with a new assembly line. Site preparation began in October 2008 with building construction starting thereafter. Overall completion is slated for May 2009. Approximately 61 new jobs will be added to the existing 150.

Yeargin Potter Shackelford Construction (Greenville, South Carolina) was selected to provide general construction services for the expansion.

LSP Automotive, founded in 2005, manufactures premium Class A metals and assemblies for the North American automotive industry, although it initially supplied Germany's BMW with Class A stampings and assemblies. LSP Automotive is a subsidiary of German automotive supplier Laepple A, which has more than 4,500 employees and provides dies, prototypes, sheet metal stampings and plastic molds to Audi, BMW, Daimler, Porsche, Volvo, Volkswagen, DAF, Opel and other companies.

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