KANSAS CITY—US Farathane LLC has decided to locate its newest manufacturing operation here in suburban Riverside, just one of an impressive number of top auto parts suppliers that has settled in the metro region since the end of the recession and the recovery of the auto industry.
“This is the eleventh one we've seen in the last 18 months,” Chris Gutierrez, president of Kansas City SmartPort, Inc., an affiliate of the Kansas City Area Development Council, tells GlobeSt.com.
Gutierrez' group helps companies like US Farathane with their site selection process. He traces this industrial revival to the decision by both General Motors and Ford to greatly expand their operations in the greater Kansas City area. In January 2013, GM announced that it would spend $600 million to upgrade its plant in Fairfax, KS, just across the river. And a few months later, Ford announced that it would add 2,000 workers to its Kansas City Assembly Plant to meet consumer demand for the Ford F-150 and produce the new Ford Transit, previously made in Europe.
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Brian J. Rogal
Brian J. Rogal is a Chicago-based freelance writer with years of experience as an investigative reporter and editor, most notably at The Chicago Reporter, where he concentrated on housing issues. He also has written extensively on alternative energy and the payments card industry for national trade publications.
