DuPont will increase capacity for its DuPont Zytel HTN high-performance polyamide with a polymerization facility at its Sakra, Singapore facility and the addition of compounding equipment in Shenzhen, China. The Sakra facility will be able to produce 20,000 tonnes of the engineering polymer by 2013...

Plastic Omnium Auto Inergy is acquiring Automotive Components Holdings (ACH) LLC's plastic fuel system/fuel tank manufacturing assets in Milan, MI, with annual capacity for 1.3 million fuel systems. Plastic Omnium Auto Inergy, which is owned by Compagnie Plastic Omnium , now estimates that it will...

Lear Corp. 's (Southfield, MI) Electrical Power Management Systems business has opened a 14,340 square-meter facility in Rabat, Morocco to supply European automakers including BMW, Renault, and Volkswagen. At this time, the facility has 130 employees but has plans to employ approximately 230 by the...

Mahle Group (Stuttgart, Germany) has opened a purpose-built 3300-sq-m manufacturing plant near Chennai, India that the company says will serve as a competence center for its injection molding in the country. The company currently outsources much of its injection molding in India with only its...