Industrial Realty Group, based in the Los Angeles area, bought Tenneco’s Woodman Drive plant from Delphi last year. Tenneco makes ride control components there and in Hartwell, Ga.
For North America production, Tenneco also makes the Malibu’s hot-end exhaust systems at its Smithville, Tenn. and Seward, Neb. facilities, and supplies converters from Litchfield, Mich. Cold-end exhaust systems are produced at the company’s Cambridge, Ontario and Seward plants. and exhaust isolators are supplied from the company’s Suzhou, China facility.
A Tenneco spokesman said the Kettering plant has 420 workers. The project will not mean new hiring there, he said.
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