Hyundai Draws Automotive Suppliers to Alabama

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Researched by Industrialinfo.com (Industrial Information Resources, Incorporated, Houston, Texas). Hyundai's new plant in Hope Hull, Alabama, which is expected to become operational in 2005, is drawing a plentiful harvest of parts and components suppliers to job-poor Alabama, both home-grown and Korean.

The latest to announce a new plant is Venture Industries Incorporated (Frasier, Michigan). The $100 million, 670,000 square foot plant to be built in Prattville, Autauga County, will provide 600 jobs and mold dashboards and body panels. (See IIR plant profile #1061129).

Click on the image at right to view a listing of the suppliers who have announced so far.

Hyundai is not the only company to draw new suppliers to Alabama. The Mercedes-Benz plant in Vance has brought in a number of suppliers, among which is Oris (Germany), which is investing $6 million in a 145,000 square foot plant in a Bessemer, Jefferson County, Industrial Park. The newly operational Nissan plant in Canton, Mississippi, has also attracted some suppliers who have chosen plant sites in Alabama. Honda's Lincoln plant has also attracted a number of new suppliers. (Watch Industrialinfo.com for a future report on Honda suppliers.) Among other suppliers to locate recently in Alabama are Plastech Engineering Products (Dearborn, Michigan), which is investing $40 million in a plant in McCalla, Jefferson County, that will employ 250 workers; Oxford Automotive (Troy, Michigan), which is investing $150 million in a 390,000 square foot plant, also in McCalla (Oxford McCalla is a Nissan supplier).

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