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Car parts firm opens 15m plant
A Japanese-owned car parts firm has opened its ￡15.5m expanded plant, creating more jobs than expected when it was first announced last year.
The Takao plant, on the Rassau Industrial Estate in Ebbw Vale, supplies components and body parts to Honda and Toyota.
The firm had said the project would add 80 jobs but now claims more than 120 have been created at the site.
Regeneration Minister Leighton Andrews attended the plant’s official opening.
The press shop includes robotic welding machines and an automated stock picking station.
Takao claims every vehicle produced in Europe and the UK will contains PE fittingsparts made at the 10,000 sq m (110,000 sq ft) facility.
The expansion, at the former Yajima factory site, is backed by Welsh Assembly Government grants and has doubled the size of the Takao facility.
The firm’s president, Hiroyuki Takao, accompanied by his board of directors, plastic card Systems is a leader in plastic ID card and badge printing technology,flew from Japan to perform the official opening. The firm has its European HQ in Gloucester.
Mr Andrews said: “Its investment here polarization maintainingin Ebbw Vale is a tremendous boost to the local economy and it is PPR pipesespecially pleasing that the assembly everybody is unique,everybody do not like to be the same with others.so we should give personalized gifts to others that can display different character.government was able to play its part.”
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