- Indian-owned auto parts supplier has new contract with VW
- Southwest Detroit facility will add 200 jobs to 500-employee workforce in city
- It’s the company’s third expansion since coming to Detroit in 2014
Auto parts supplier Sakthi Automotive Group has broken ground on a $7 million building at its manufacturing and distribution campus in southwest Detroit that the company says will create 200 new jobs.
The Detroit-based subsidiary of India conglomerate Sakthi Group is building the new 60,000-square-foot facility to accommodate a new contract to build steering arms and knuckles for Volkswagen AG vehicles, said Lalit Verma, CEO of Sakthi Automotive.
The company, which came to Detroit in 2014, already produces 6 million units of knuckles and steering parts for VW, Ford Motor Co. and General Motors Co., said Alfredo Newman, senior human resources manager for Sakthi.
Once the new building is complete by next May, the 200 new hires will bring the company’s Detroit workforce to 700, Verma said.
“We look forward to future growth in Detroit,” Verma said Friday during a formal groundbreaking ceremony with Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan.
The expansion is Sakthi’s third since 2014, when the company began production of its steering parts in the former ArvinMeritor building.
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