Kobe Aluminum Automotive Products Plans $11 Million Expansion At Its Kentucky, USA Facility

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Japan-owned Kobe Aluminum Automotive Products LLC will invest $11 million to expand its Bowling Green, Kentucky, production center.

As part of its investment, the company plans to construct a new 39,000-square-foot building and purchase new equipment. There are 11 Kobe Steel subsidiaries in the United States, but the Bowling Green location is the only U.S. facility to forge aluminum suspension products for the automotive industry. The expansion project will manufacture the cast aluminum bars for compressors for air conditioning on vehicles.

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