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Partners Open Aluminum Plant in Kentucky
Amsterdam-based Constellium NV and Japan’s UACJ Corp. this week opened a $150 million manufacturing plant in Bowling Green, Ky, to supply aluminum automotive body sheet to the North American automotive industry.
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Amsterdam-based Constellium NV and Japan’s UACJ Corp. this week opened a $150 million manufacturing plant in Bowling Green, Ky., to supply aluminum automotive body sheet to the North American automotive industry.
The 225,000-sq-ft facility will have an initial annual capacity to supply 100,000 metric tons of flat-rolled aluminum, with output due to ramp up over the next two years. The Constellium-UACJ ABS LLC joint venture, which was announced in 2014, says it has orders from several carmakers in North America.
Both partners will supply the plant with aluminum coils from their own rolling mills. The Bowling Green facility will treat and process the coils for automotive applications ranging from closure panels to body structures.
Constellium has 22 global manufacturing facilities. UACJ was established in 2013 from the merger of Furukawa-Sky Aluminum and Sumitomo Light Metal Industries.
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