VW contract fills a void for Saturn supplier
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VW contract fills a void for Saturn supplier
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* VW contract fills a void for Saturn supplier
Volkswagen has tapped a former supplier to General Motors’s Saturn vehicles to produce automatic shifter assemblies on VW programs in Tennessee and Mexico.
SL America Corp. of Clinton, Tenn., has been a longstanding supplier to the Saturn line, which was discontinued as part of GM’s 2009 reorganization.
SL, the U.S. subsidiary of Korea’s SL Corp., formerly known as Samlip Industrial Co., will supply both VW programs from its Clinton plant, where it has been producing parts for Saturn and other GM vehicles.
VW will use the assemblies on its NMS -- for new mid-sized sedan -- that will be produced in a plant now under construction in Chattanooga, Tenn. VW expects to launch that program in mid-2011. SL’s Clinton plant also will produce the parts for a vehicle made at VW’s Puebla, Mexico, plant.
This is SL’s first global business with Volkswagen.
“SL America worked very hard to pursue a partnership with Volkswagen,” SL America President Y.K. Woo said in a statement released by Volkswagen late Tuesday. “The NMS was a perfect opportunity to demonstrate our capabilities and show Volkswagen that SL America could be both a viable local and global partner.”
Volkswagen did not reveal the program in Mexico that SL will supply, but the next-generation Mexican-made Jetta will share a large percentage of parts with the NMS.
SL’s Clinton plant is 116 miles from the new Volkswagen assembly plant.
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* VW contract fills a void for Saturn supplier
Volkswagen has tapped a former supplier to General Motors’s Saturn vehicles to produce automatic shifter assemblies on VW programs in Tennessee and Mexico.
SL America Corp. of Clinton, Tenn., has been a longstanding supplier to the Saturn line, which was discontinued as part of GM’s 2009 reorganization.
SL, the U.S. subsidiary of Korea’s SL Corp., formerly known as Samlip Industrial Co., will supply both VW programs from its Clinton plant, where it has been producing parts for Saturn and other GM vehicles.
VW will use the assemblies on its NMS -- for new mid-sized sedan -- that will be produced in a plant now under construction in Chattanooga, Tenn. VW expects to launch that program in mid-2011. SL’s Clinton plant also will produce the parts for a vehicle made at VW’s Puebla, Mexico, plant.
This is SL’s first global business with Volkswagen.
“SL America worked very hard to pursue a partnership with Volkswagen,” SL America President Y.K. Woo said in a statement released by Volkswagen late Tuesday. “The NMS was a perfect opportunity to demonstrate our capabilities and show Volkswagen that SL America could be both a viable local and global partner.”
Volkswagen did not reveal the program in Mexico that SL will supply, but the next-generation Mexican-made Jetta will share a large percentage of parts with the NMS.
SL’s Clinton plant is 116 miles from the new Volkswagen assembly plant.
Read more: http://www.autonews.com/apps/pbcs.dl...#ixzz0dAq88tds
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