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Yoshihiko Yamada Appointed President of DENSO Sales California

Yoshihiko Yamada has been appointed president of DENSO’s unit in Long Beach, CA, DENSO Sales California. Yamada had been president of DENSO International Thailand since January 2005. Yamada has 30 years of experience with DENSO and has held various management positions in Japan, Australia, Indonesia and Singapore as well as his previous assignment in Thailand.

DENSO to Establish New Company in Hokkaido, Japan to Produce Automotive Semiconductor Products

KARIYA, Japan — DENSO Corp. has announced plans to establish a new company in Chitose, Hokkaido, Japan, to produce automotive semiconductor products. The new company, called DENSO Electronics Corp., will have an initial capital investment of approximately $17 million. DENSO plans to start production at the new plant in April 2009. By fiscal 2015, DENSO

Suppliers Losing Contracts to Rivals

Bankruptcy is not the worst thing troubled automotive suppliers have to contend with. Even as these distressed suppliers work to restructure, they also must deal with a growing trend: automakers stripping away contracts and giving them to healthier suppliers. Automotive suppliers, already squeezed by rising raw material prices and customer production cuts, are finding the gap widening between their healthy and weak peers. The trend is driven by automakers’ desire to safeguard their operations by ensuring a continuous flow of parts.

Toyota Boshoku Establishes Canadian Manufacturing Company

Toyota Boshoku Corp., headquarter in Kariya-city, Aichi, Japan, has established a new automotive interior manufacturing company, Toyota Boshoku Canada, located in Woodstock, Ontario, Canada. This new company will be the first Toyota Boshoku wholly owned seat manufacturing facility in North America. The company will produce the RAV4 seat, door trim and carpet interior parts for Toyota Motor Manufacturing Canada’s (TMMC) Woodstock plant, which will begin operations in 2008.

Wave of Retiring Japanese Workers Could Force Big Changes

No one knows spindles like Katsuya Hyodo. For more than three decades, the diminutive factory worker, armed with only a junior high school education, has studied and designed the whirring cylinders at the heart of automotive machine tools. “I like spindles,” Hyodo says. “There are so many different kinds.” His expertise and passion are priceless to a small company like his employer, machine tool manufacturer Nishijimax (annual revenue: $30 million). Just one problem: Katsuya is 72 years old. That’s why he spends Sunday afternoons at home transcribing everything he knows about spindles into his computer. He wants to make sure his wisdom reaches the next generation. “I am not just doing it for myself,” he says.

DENSO Establishes New Software Development Company in the Philippines

DENSO Techno Co., a subsidiary of DENSO Corp., has established DENSO Techno Philippines, Inc. in the Philippines. The new company, expected to employ 110 people by 2008, will begin software development by the end of 2006 for automotive products such as instrument clusters. The capital for the new company is approximately $800,000.

DuPont to Build Auto Paint Lab in Japan

DuPont said it will spend $10 million to build an automotive paint laboratory in Japan to facilitate approval for sales of coatings to the domestic factories of Japanese carmakers. The laboratory, to be built in Aichi Prefecture where Toyota Motor Corp is headquartered, will open in the third quarter of 2005 and employ about 30 people, the U.S. chemical giant said.