Tennessee Gets More Good Auto News

Automotive electronics supplier DENSO Manufacturing Tennessee announced a $185 million expansion of its Maryville assembly operations that is expected to add about 500 jobs by 2010.

Construction of the 220,000-square-foot addition to the company's 1.5 million square feet of existing manufacturing space should begin in early 2007, with hiring to start in late 2007 and production to begin in early 2008.

This will mark the largest expansion in the 15-year history of Denso Manufacturing Tennessee, which supplies components to all major automakers and employs about 2,500 workers in Maryville and another 900 at a sister plant in Athens.

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