Flex-N-Gate's new Detroit plant to prioritize city residents for jobs

Posted on January 24, 2018

  • Flex-N-Gate to prioritize Detroiters for 400 jobs at new auto parts plant.
  • Construction of 450,00-square-foot plant is 60 percent complete.
  • Early production on metal-stamping presses to begin in April.

Auto part supplier Flex-N-Gate has committed to hiring Detroiters first for the 400 jobs the company is creating with the construction of a new parts plant in the city’s I-94 Industrial Park that’s expected to begin early metal-stamping production by April.

“That’s our commitment,” Flex-N-Gate owner Shahid Khan said Monday after giving Mayor Mike Duggan a tour of the 450,000-square-foot manufacturing facility.

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