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.

Auto Bailout Facing Uphill Road
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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.

Salzgitter, Beiersdorf to join German DAX-30 Index
Auto parts and tire maker Continental AG and ailing real estate lender Hypo Real Estate AG will be taken off Germany's benchmark DAX-30 Index later this month, Deutsche Boerse said. They will be replaced by Beiersdorf AG and Salzgitter AG on Dec. 22. Hannover-...

Auto boss ups the ante
WASHINGTON -- A top executive of Chrysler LLC cautioned yesterday that a collapse of any of the three Detroit-based automakers could send the economy into a depression, a warning that was delivered as the United Auto Workers union braced for contract concessions.

Salzgitter, Beiersdorf to join German DAX-30 Index
Auto parts and tire maker Continental AG and ailing real estate lender Hypo Real Estate AG will be taken off Germany's benchmark DAX-30 Index later this month, Deutsche Boerse said. They will be replaced by Beiersdorf AG and Salzgitter AG on Dec. 22.