Japan auto parts company to open plant in Uruguay
Japanese auto parts maker Yazaki Corp. plans to invest $4.3 million to open a production plant in Uruguay next year despite the credit-crippling international financial crisis.

Japan auto parts company to open plant in Uruguay
Japanese auto parts maker Yazaki Corp. plans to invest $4.3 million to open a production plant in Uruguay next year despite the credit-crippling international financial crisis. Uruguay's presidential Web site says the new company will be called Yazaki Uruguay...

Japan auto parts company to open plant in Uruguay
Japanese auto parts maker Yazaki Corp. plans to invest $4.3 million to open a production plant in Uruguay next year despite the credit-crippling international financial crisis. Uruguay's presidential Web site says the new company will be called Yazaki Uruguay SA. It will make electronic auto parts to export to Mexico and neighboring Brazil. The company will be located in Las Piedras, a ...

Magna shutting down Nova Scotia auto-parts plant
Magna Powertrain is closing its auto-parts manufacturing plant in North Sydney next year, throwing 260 people out of work.

Magna unit to shut Canada auto-parts plant: report
TORONTO (Reuters) - A subsidiary of Magna International is closing an auto-parts plant in the province of Nova Scotia next year, leading to 260 lost jobs, CBC News reported on Tuesday.

Councillor warns of 'devastating' news for auto-parts plant
Workers at an auto-parts plant in North Sydney are bracing for more bad news.

(AFX UK Focus) 2008-12-02 22:24 Magna unit to shut Canada auto-parts plant --report
TORONTO, Dec 2 (Reuters) - A subsidiary of Magna International is closing an auto-parts plant in the province of Nova Scotia next year, leading to 260 lost jobs, CBC News reported on Tuesday. The employees were told Tuesday afternoon that a gradual shutdown during 2009 is planned, with the plant closing by the end of that year, CBC News reported on its Web site. The report comes about a week ...

Man robs auto-parts store at gunpoint
Police in Ocoee this morning are searching for a man who robbed an auto-parts store at gunpoint.

Auto Parts Store Robbed For Second Time
Police investigate a second robbery within a week at an auto parts store.

Over 50 Big Three auto parts suppliers denied credit insurance
India?s auto component makers not only face slower growth in the domestic market, the Export Credit Guarantee Corporation of India (ECGC) is now refusing credit insurance to over 50 auto component companies that sell to the Big Three car makers in Detroit.

I.C. auto parts supplier lays off 37 more
The dramatic downturn in auto sales brought 37 layoffs last week at an Iowa City factory that manufactures plastic interior parts for Detroit's big three automakers.The layoffs have reduced employment at International Automotive Components' Iowa City plant to 685, down about 170, or 20 percent since September.Detroit-based International Automotive Components has operated the former Lear Corp. ...

Magna parts plant in Nova Scotia closing
A Magna International auto parts plant employing 260 in Cape Breton is shutting down, another victim of North America's slumping automobile industry.

Magna International Closing Parts Plant
Auto supplier?s parts plant employing 260 in Cape Breton, N.S., is shutting down this month and will be permanently closed by the end of next year.

Auto-parts boss follows his dream after layoff
When parts manager Mike Bachara saw the numbers going south at Bill Heard Chevrolet in Scottsdale, he knew it was time to ramp up the side business he had started a few years earlier.

Faced with Finance Crisis, German Auto Firms Cut Production
As the global finance crisis ravages the auto industry, German carmakers and car parts manufacturers are forcing their employees not only to take extended holiday breaks but also to work fewer hours.

Mexican Auto Output May Drop 20% in 2009?s First Half (Update2)
Mexican auto production will probably end 2008 higher than the previous year as exports taper off only in the final months, Solis said today at a conference in San Luis Potosi. Mexican production through October rose 5.8 percent from the same period a year earlier to 1.81 million autos.

Economic troubles for Big Three automakers trickle down to Columbia auto parts manufacturers
COLUMBIA ? Dana Corp, one of the four major automotive parts manufacturers in Columbia, has laid off 50 people even as the federal government weighs a $25 billion bailout for the Big Three automakers. Columbia, with its strategic location between the two biggest cities in Missouri, is attractive to manufacturers, and major companies have a long-standing presence in the city. But with the ...

Pearlstein: The Auto Bailout
Washington Post columnist Steven Pearlstein was online Wednesday, Dec. 3 at 2:00 p.m. ET to discuss the automotive bailout.

German auto industry predicts grim 2009
FRANKFURT, Germany -- The German auto industry's leading trade group said Wednesday it expects next year's car sales to be the worst since the reunification of the country in 1990.

Strickland Supports Auto Workers
Retired union workers in Ohio say they are concerned about the troubled auto industry.