Tier Supplier Albert Weber Expands in South Carolina

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Researched by Industrialinfo.com (Industrial Information Resources, Incorporated; Houston, Texas). Automotive Tier supplier Albert Weber Manufacturing Corporation, a subsidiary of the family-owned and operated Albert Weber GmbH (Markdorf, Germany), has recently begun an $11 million expansion at its manufacturing facility in Summerville, Dorchester County, South Carolina. The company had originally invested $135 million in the facility in Dorchester County's Eastport Industrial Park in 1998, its first facility in the U.S.

Albert Weber's Summerville plant will provide crankshafts for DaimlerChrysler Corporation at the rate of 110,000 crankshafts a year, beginning in February 2006. The company presently employs seven workers in the highly-automated plant and will add another 25 employees during the start-up phase of new production. The company prides itself on the high degree of automation in the plant, which guarantees process reliability and high efficiency, with a unique part traceability system, according to Weber COO Daniel Weber.

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