Front car seat frame. (Courtesy, Johnson Controls)
Milwaukee-based Johnson Controls Incorporated is building a $15 million automotive interior parts plant at West Point, in western Georgia.
The factory will produce seat and door panels for Kia vehicles to be built at the Korean carmaker's $1.2 billion assembly plant nearby.
The firm says the plant will employ over 300 people when it reaches full production.
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Signs on the road to completing the Kia car plant. (file/Dave Bender)
Construction of the 130,000-square-foot plant will begin next week, according to officials.
The Kia plant is set to open in 2009.
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Monday, October 6, 2008
New Kia supplier touts $15M factory
