CHARLESTON, SC—JTEKT, a Japanese manufacturer of steering systems and driveline components, is investing $102 million to construct a new assembly plant in South Carolina.
When Chrysler’s Belvidere Assembly Plant (the home of the new Dodge Dart) opened in the middle of a northern Illinois cornfield in 1965, the automaker was in the midst of a decade of growth.
Several Fiat factories in Europe, including Pomigliano, Italy, and Tychy, Poland, were benchmarked by engineers from Chrysler’s Belvidere Assembly Plant before producing the new Dodge Dart.
The Dodge Dart compact sedan differs significantly from the two other vehicles that are built at Chrysler’s Belvidere, IL, assembly plant—the Jeep Compass and Jeep Patriot sport utility vehicle.
TOYOTA, Japan—Toyota unveiled new manufacturing technologies at its flagship assembly plant here, including laser welders, stamping machines and a highly flexible assembly line that can grow or shrink over a weekend to adjust to demand.
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