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VW chooses Tennessee supplier M-Tek
Apr. 6, 2009 – Volkswagen has awarded a $147 million contract to M-Tek of Manchester, Tennessee. M-Tek will supply interior door panels for a mid-size sedan to be built at VW’s new plant in Chattanooga.
About 60 to 70 M-Tek employees will benefit from continued employment thanks to the contract, according to Tennessee economic development officials. About 20 of those employees will work in a final assembly operation at the VW plant. Operations at the plant, located at the Enterprise South Industrial Park, are expected to begin in early 2011.
A subsidiary of Japanese auto supplier Kasai Kogyo, M-Tek has about 900 employees altogether. It is a supplier for the Nissan plant at Smyrna, Tennessee, as well as for Honda and General Motors.
The VW plant will employ about 2,000 workers when it is fully operational, and many more jobs are expected to be created through supplier contracts such as M-Tek’s.