3/6/17 Group Watch: Auto Supplier Opening $10.4M Facility
A Spain-based auto supplier has announced plans to build a $10.4 million manufacturing facility in Birmingham. Grupo Antolin’s Alabama facility will employ about 150 people by 2020. The average wage for workers at the plant is planned to be $19.13 an hour. Construction is scheduled to start in early March on an existing building in Jefferson Metropolitan Park. Grupo Antolin develops, designs and manufactures a wide variety of interior components for automakers, including doors, seats, lighting fixtures, cockpits and trim. The company claims to have parts in one in four cars in the world. The company was founded in 1950 and has 28,000 employees. They have plants in 26 countries.
