[CPEO-BIF] "Japanese supplier Topre rekindles Ohio brownfield"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Japanese supplier Topre rekindles Ohio brownfield


Jack Walsworth 
Automotive News 
April 7, 2018 

Topre America, a U.S. producer of high-strength steel components, is setting up a foundation built on the former site of an International Harvester plant in Ohio.

The symbolism couldn't be more dramatic for Springfield, Ohio, as Topre America Corp. builds its expanding steel parts plant about a mile from downtown.

The western Ohio industrial town, home of an International Harvester truck plant in the 1980s, had lost more than 20,000 blue-collar jobs between 1990 and 2014. The Harvester plant closed in 2002, and the site was cleared in hopes of attracting new industrial development.

But none came.

That is, until late in 2016, when Topre, a fast-growing Japanese supplier of large, high-strength steel auto parts, decided to build a small $10 million, 20-employee plant on the old Harvester site to supply Honda of America nearby in East Liberty, Ohio.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.autonews.com/article/20180407/OEM01/180409795/japanese-supplier-topre-rekindles-ohio-brownfield?cciid=read-next-link

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
Voice/Fax: 650/961-8918 
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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