Automotive News - Guide to Economic Development - Supplement - GED38

F E AT U R E S T O R Y

SOUTH CAROLINA

KENTUCKY

Foreign investment
wave continues in
South Carolina

Kentucky rising as
an auto industry
aluminum center

S

L

haeffler Group's opening of its $36
million U.S. administrative offices
this summer in Fort Mill, S.C., is a
continuation of the German auto parts
giant's local investments. Schaeffler
now operates a complex of buildings
at the site for U.S. production lines,
administration, engineering and tooling
to support operations in five states.
The opening is a small part of a wave
of foreign investment in South Carolina
by European automotive manufacturers.
Volvo is constructing a $500 million
plant in Berkeley County to produce
the automaker's all-new S60 sedan,
which will be exported around the
world through the Port of Charleston
beginning in mid-2018. Daimler is
investing $500 million to build a plant
near Charleston to manufacture its
Sprinter vans, with production slated to
start in mid-2018.

- kevin litwin

ogan Aluminum, a company that
has produced aluminum sheet for
the beverage industry since 1980, made
two decisions this year: one, that the
time has come to expand into the auto
industry; and two, that Kentucky is the
place to invest $248 million to do it.
The company's plant in Logan County,
in southwest Kentucky, is jumping on a
global auto industry trend toward lighter
components - many of them made from
aluminum - to make vehicles more
fuel efficient. Logan sees Kentucky as a
central location for that.
Ford Motor Co.'s assembly plants
in Louisville are fueling demand for
aluminum components. Toyota Motor
Co. is spending $1.33 billion to renovate
its Georgetown, Ky., assembly plant with
an eye toward lighter-weight vehicles.
Logan's Kentucky location will offer
easy logistics to automotive customers

in Tennessee, Ohio, Indiana, South
Carolina and Georgia.
Logan is not the only aluminum
supplier to see the opportunity.
Braidy Industries announced this year
it will construct a $1.3 billion aluminum
rolling mill in Greenup County in eastern
Kentucky to produce sheet and plate for
several auto plants within a 300-mile
radius. When up and running, about 550
workers will earn an estimated $70,000 a
year - big news for an Appalachia region
that was hurt by the decline in coal and
manufacturing sectors.
Terry Gill, secretary of the Kentucky
Cabinet for Economic Development,
believes logistics and infrastructure
are key selling points for auto industry
investment in his state. Four key
industrial-region interstates pass
through Kentucky - I-64, 65, 71 and
75. The rail system is extensive, the
Ohio River is at hand, and a growing
air cargo infrastructure is available for
transporting auto parts through the UPS
World Port is in Louisville - and soon
also in the North Kentucky region.

- kevin litwin

OHIO

Ohio's resources are
reborn for the 21st
century industry

O

hio's central role in the U.S. auto
industry goes back decades. But
the state's old resources are now being
reborn for a new generation.
In a Springfield, Ohio, business
compound that once housed an
International Harvester factory that
closed, Japan-based Topre America
Corp. is investing $55 million to open a
new stamping and manufacturing plant.
And at the former Chevrolet TrailBlazer
factory in Moraine, Ohio, China-based

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Fuyao Glass America has invested $350
million to manufacture automotive glass.
But Ohio is making sure the industry
realizes the state is more than a
factory address.
At Ohio's 4,500-acre Transportation
Research Center in East Liberty, the
largest independent vehicle test
facility and proving grounds in North
America, a new $45 million Smart
Mobility Advanced Research & Test
(SMART) Center is under construction
to stimulate 21st century transportation
technology for researchers.
The project= will use about 500 of the
center's 4,500 acres, and after opening in
2018, offer a diverse driving landscape

for testing self-driving vehicles. There
will be a network of urban roads and
roundabouts, a rural wooded corridor
with obstructed views, and a high-speed
intersection that stretches a mile long.
The state is also investing $15 million
to install fiber optic cable and sensors
along U.S. Route 33 to establish a Smart
Mobility Corridor, so new technologies
can be safely tested in real-life traffic
situations. The Silicon Valley startup
Otto - a unit of Uber - will be among
the first companies to use the advanced
research center, testing one of its
revolutionary self-driving trucks on the
embedded stretch of Route 33.

- kevin litwin



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