SEOUL, South Korea—Hyundai Motor Co.’s limited global production capacity is capping the company’s growth, a top executive says. “Without building a new factory, it is very, very difficult to supply more,” says Lee In-cheol, Hyundai’s vice president of international sales.
MOUNT MORRIS TOWNSHIP, MI—Sanluis Rassini, which makes leaf springs, brake components and other auto parts, is building a $17.3 million assembly plant here. The facility is expected to create 55 jobs.
TOKYO—Nissan is planning to build a new assembly plant in North America to make cars for its luxury vehicle division Infiniti. The $2 billion facility will have a capacity of 100,000 vehicles per year and is expected to begin production in 2017.
ATHENS, TN—HP Pelzer Automotive Systems, which makes interior trim parts, plans to invest $28 million in a new 185,000-square-foot assembly plant here. The facility will create 200 jobs.
DECHERD, TN—Production workers at Nissan’s assembly plants in Smyrna, TN, and Decherd, TN, and Canton, MS, will get a pay raise in October, their first since 2006.
DETROIT—General Motors is planning to invest approximately $1.6 billion in its North American manufacturing facilities during 2013, in a bid to unveil about 20 new models during the year.
DETROIT—Actor Danny Glover has joined supporters of unionization for workers at Nissan’s assembly plant in Mississippi demonstrating outside the North American International Auto Show.