Yanfeng’s plans were announced by the MEDC with other performance-based grants of $300,000 for Kerkstra Precast Inc. The company’s plant in Harrison Township will remain open, with about 80 technical employees moving to the new facility. She said the company decided on the new location because of its proximity to freeways and customers as well as being centrally located for employees moving to the facility from Plymouth and Harrison Township. Ortisi said Yanfeng’s move is separate from Adient’s decision. The headquarters move comes after Plymouth-based Adient recently announced plans to move its headquarters to downtown Detroit.
and Adient, which was spun off from Johnson Controls last year into its own auto seating and interiors business. The company was formed in 2015 as a joint venture between Yanfeng Automotive Trim Systems Co. About 1,300 of those employees are located at 11 facilities in Michigan. It employs more than 30,000 people at about 100 manufacturing plants and technical centers in 18 countries. Yanfeng is a supplier of instrument panels and cockpit systems, door panels, floor consoles, overhead consoles, lighting and decorative trim. The MEDC awarded the company a $600,000 Michigan Business Development Program performance-based grant for the investment, partially to help the company offset the increased costs associated with creating these jobs in Michigan, according to state officials. The Michigan Economic Development Corp., which announced the plans Wednesday, said the state was in competition for the investment - particularly for the tech center - with another one of the company’s facilities in Queretaro, Mexico. The company has more than 80 open positions in Michigan, according to the site. The jobs will be technical positions, and posted at as they become available. “We think this move is very exciting for our employees and we’re looking forward to relocating.”Ībout 60 jobs will be created by the move and investment over the next couple of years, she said. “This will be a state-of-the-art facility and a very collaborative environment for our employees,” Ortisi told The Detroit News on Thursday. She said about 280 employees are expected to move to the building from locations in Plymouth and Harrison Township. 12 Mile, according to Yanfeng spokeswoman Debra Ortisi. The auto interiors supplier plans to open the facility later this year in a former Detroit Medical Center building at 41935 W.
Yanfeng Automotive Interiors plans to invest $8.45 million to build a new technical center and move its southeast Michigan headquarters from Plymouth to Novi.
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