(photo of production lines at the new M&C plant)
Indiana Governor Eric Holcomb and Washington Mayor Joe Wellman and other Daviess County and Washington city officials joined executives from Japan-based M&C Tech Indiana, a manufacturer of automobile parts Tuesday to celebrate the company’s opening of its manufacturing center in Washington.
In 2016, M&C Tech Indiana announced plans to invest $4.6 million to build a 40,000-square-foot factory on 6.2 acres near County Road 200 E in Washington to manufacture plastic parts for the automotive industry. With its growth, the company announced plans to create up to 70 new jobs by 2021. In eight years officials say there’ll be 160 jobs as the plant continues to expand.
Japanese officials, Mayor Joe Wellman, Indiana Governor Eric Holcomb, Daviess County Economic Development Director Ron Arnold and State Representative Shawn Lindaur all commented at the podium or to WAMW that the dasy is an important milestone as Indiana continues to make significant investments in the state’s infrastructure, by finishing projects like Interstate 69, and working to continue preserving existing roads and bridges, and investing in Indiana’s overall transportation system. The completion of I69 was mentioned several times as a key factor in M&C’s decision to locate in Washington.
(pictured are some of what M&C manufactures which are plastic parts which go around sunroofs and other places on select Toyota model vehicles)
