ADAS Maker Continental Unveils Plant in Texas
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NEW BRAUNFELS, Texas — Continental’s new automotive manufacturing plant is formally up and working after a yearlong delay attributable to the pandemic.
The $110 million, 215,000-square-foot facility has began manufacturing, manufacturing superior driver-assistance techniques merchandise, together with radars and sensors. The know-how makes potential options like lane help, which helps drivers keep of their lanes. The power additionally might be a house for analysis and growth of the way forward for these applied sciences, together with absolutely automated automobiles.
The corporate plans to have greater than 500 staff working on the facility inside the subsequent few years. Continental Automotive spokesperson Mary Arraf mentioned there are greater than 130 staff on the location now.
“Continental develops key parts for assisted and automatic driving all around the world,” Juergen Martin, Continental’s New Braunfels plant supervisor, mentioned in a information launch. “The completion of our new automotive plant signifies a significant step in our long-term technique for advancing development and innovation in autonomous mobility.”
The New Braunfels ribbon-cutting ceremony in the present day marked the completion of the brand new facility devoted to Continental’s Autonomous Mobility enterprise! ✂️
150 state and native officers, neighborhood members and staff joined festivities and a full tour of the 215,000 sq. ft. area. pic.twitter.com/q0JRvaIuhd
— Continental USA (@ContiPressUSA) September 28, 2022
It’s the German-based firm’s first automotive greenfield location — a website that wasn’t developed beforehand — devoted to autonomous mobility in the US, in response to a information launch.
Continental initially deliberate to open the New Braunfels website in 2021. It pushed that again one yr due to the pandemic and provide chain and materials challenges. New Braunfels officers allowed the corporate to maintain the incentives it had negotiated regardless that they initially had been contingent upon an earlier opening date and hitting sure benchmarks sooner.
Workers author Diego Mendoza-Moyers contributed to this story.
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