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Industry: Email Alert RSS FeedDaimlerChrysler's Transmission Plant Expansion Is Underway
Autoparts Report, Oct 8, 2001
DaimlerChrysler Corp. said it has started construction on a $455 million project at their Indiana transmission plant located in Kokomo, Indiana. The project will allow for production of the "W5A580", a Mercedes-Benz developed transmission.
The five-speed, automatic, rear-wheel drive transmission, currently built in the company's Hedelfingen, Germany plant just outside Stuttgart, is used in the current Mercedes-Benz S, E, C and M-Class vehicles.
The plant is expected to produce 400,000 "W5A580" transmissions, which will be used in future Chrysler, Dodge, and Jeep products.
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The plant began production in 1998 and has approximately 1,700 employees.
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